Elaine Ayers @eayers0.bsky.social Historian of science, collecting, plants + museums // professor at Yale // PhD in History of Science from Princeton // writing books // contr. ed. at Public Domain Review // elaineayers.com
American Printing History Association @printinghistory.bsky.social To encourage the study of printing history.
printinghistory.org
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social Advancing understanding of human interactions with the natural world since 1977
Modern American History @modamhist.bsky.social News and insights from the journal Modern American History, devoted to all aspects of American history since the 1890s.
American Association for State and Local History @aaslh.org AASLH provides leadership and resources to help the history community thrive and make history more meaningful to all people. Join us at aaslh.org.
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/
Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social W. Ford Schumann Distinguished Visiting Professor in Democratic Studies, Williams College, 2026–2027. Assoc. Professor ArtHist, UMass Amherst. Impressive Politics: Print before the Press in Late Medieval England (UPenn, frthcmng). https://sonjadrimmer.com/
honor sachs @drhonor.bsky.social Historian, professor, tired.
Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social Historian. Author: Bank Notes and Shinplasters: The Rage for Paper Money in the Early Republic. Editor: commonplace.online. joshuargreenberg.com
Virginia Scharff @vscharff.bsky.social Historian, novelist, gardener, cook
John Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com Historian and writer exploring how Americans engage with the past. **Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory** out now. www.johngmarks.com
MacDowell @macdowell1907.bsky.social Art and artists are made at MacDowell. For more than a century, MacDowell has given artists time, space, community, and freedom to create. https://www.macdowell.org
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Ellery E Foutch @elleryefoutch.bsky.social assoc prof, American studies, middlebury college - art & material culture of u.s. - critical museum studies, histories & materiality of natural history & quirk. at closing time, I get kicked out of swimming pools, reading rooms, museums
Wil Freeborn @freeborn.bsky.social Artist, illustrator 
Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social Husband, dad, veteran, writer, and proud Midwesterner. 19th US Secretary of Transportation and former Mayor of South Bend.
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/
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
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
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social Historian of medicine (ish). Parent of small monsters. Enthusiastic Yorkshirewoman in Sheffield. RA in Creative Health at UoManchester. Project Manager at UoSheffield.
Sarah Mackay @smgthomson.bsky.social Curator @natlibscot.bsky.social 📚
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robbohan.etsy.com
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
99% Invisible @99pi.org Long running, award winning narrative podcast about all the thought that goes into things most people don’t think about.
www.99pi.org
siriusxm.com/podcasts-plus-subscription
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/
Tara Nummedal @tnummedal.bsky.social Early modern objects, bodies, and knowledges; digital scholarship; knitter; author of Anna Zieglerin and the Lion’s Blood & co-author of furnaceandfugue.org
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social Historian of politics, business, media in early America. Author of Revolutionary Networks. He/him. See https://josephadelman.com for more.
Jared Farmer @geohumanist.bsky.social Place-based historian based in Philadelphia; professor at Penn; author of “Elderflora: A Modern History of Ancient Trees”
Emily Pawley @emilypawley.bsky.social Environmental historian working on the climate emergency 
Ben Waterhouse @benwaterhouse.bsky.social Historian @UNC-Chapel Hill. Works on culture and politics of business, especially in modern U.S.
Newest book: One Day I'll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion that Conquered America
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler @jkbuhler.bsky.social Design Historian and author of Open Plan: A Design History of the American Office (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Timothy Hyde @hydetimothy.bsky.social Historian of architecture, urbanism, modernity / MIT / Author of Ugliness & Judgment / research: architecture & law, building sites, ugliness, Antarctica
Cate Denial @cjdenial.bsky.social Professor and Chair, Center for Learning Innovation, UM-Rochester; Historian; author, A Pedagogy of Kindness (https://bit.ly/OrderPoK); catherinedenial.org; https://redbrickagency.com/cate-denial/; posts my own; she/her; settler, Native land
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife @dublinseminar.bsky.social Annual conference and publication exploring the folklife of New England and the neighboring regions, founded in 1976 and now meeting each summer at Historic Deerfield 
Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social Prof of Book History @UWMadison. Dir., Center for History of Print & Digital Culture. Author: Intimacy of Paper. WheatleyCensus.org. Summers @CalRBS. Assoc Editor @PBSA. 4:56 marathoner. Mediocre triathlete. Episcopal. Little League ⚾️ coach #BillsMafia 🦬 ♾️
Reed Gochberg @reedgochberg.bsky.social Curator, Boston Athenaeum. Author, Useful Objects (OUP, 2021). All views my own.
https://reedgochberg.com
Jennifer Black @blackjen1.bsky.social Historian of visual & material culture, business history, fraud, trademarks, advertising. https://jennifermblack.org/
Author of Branding Trust (https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/).
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Ashley Cataldo @thelostms.bsky.social Curator of Manuscripts at American Antiquarian Society. Imperfect. Collector of the lost and unwanted.
Gianofer Fields @itsamaterialworld.bsky.social 
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
Susan Strasser @sustras.bsky.social Historian of American consumer culture. Hiker. Knitter. Redhead. Aunt.
Eileen Boris @eileenboris.bsky.social Feminist historian of intimate labors, race and gender, home as a workplace and domestic labor. Activist scholar on care. UCSB Hull Chair.Vice-President of LAWCHA
Likes yoga, hiking, and fashion
Jennifer Le Zotte @lezotte.bsky.social Historian of dress, race, sex, gender, and capitalism. Author of From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies. Writing about more dress stuff, at balls and brothels, on Wall Street and in night clubs.
Marla At Large @marlaatlarge.bsky.social Historian of women, work, craft & memory & Assoc Dean for Strategic Initiatives, #UMassAmherst College of Humanities & Fine Arts. Mainly thinking these days about #PublicHistory, #HealthHumanities, & #HealthyAging — who’s with me?
Kyle Roberts @kyleroberts6.bsky.social Scholar of Atlantic World Religion, Public History, and Digital Humanities. Executive Director of the Congregational Library & Archives, Boston - https://www.congregationallibrary.org/
Konstantin Dierks @konstantindierks.bsky.social Historian, Indiana University. AUTHOR: In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America. WRITING: Globalizing of the United States, 1815-1861.
Sharon Ann Murphy @sharonannmurphy.bsky.social Financial historian. Mom. Soccer player. Spouse. Wahoo. Mets fan. Archive rat. Avid reader. Wino. Jersey girl. Runner. World traveler. A wee bit batty.
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
T.J. Stiles @tj-stiles.bsky.social American historian and biographer.
Pulitzer Prize for History for "Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America"
Pulitzer Prize for Biography & National Book Award for Nonfiction for "The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt”
Allison Horrocks @allisonhorrocks.bsky.social Public historian / book lover / cat enthusiast
Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
M.J. Rymsza-Pawlowska @mjrp.bsky.social a historian currently writing a book about how we do history now and another book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC
http://mjrymszapawlowska.com/
Roman Mars @romanmars.bsky.social Creator of 99% Invisible, Trump Con Law, A History of the US in 100 Objects, Power Broker Breakdown- http://99pi.org
TEDTalk on flags w/ over 7M views
NYT Bestseller The 99% Invisible City: http://99pi.org/book
East Bay, CA
Alum: Oberlin, Simon's Rock, UGA
Françoise Hamlin @francoisehamlin.bsky.social Teacher, writer, mama. Associate Professor at Brown; published Crossroads at Clarksdale,These Truly Are The Brave, From Rights To Lives (2024) & republished The Struggle of Struggles. Editor of Journal of Black Military History
Hunter Hammersen @hunterhammersen.bsky.social I knit tiny nonsense.
There's also likely to be a fair bit of swearing.
Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social Knitter, teacher, editor, writer, designer. She/her. Craft, food & feminism. Love is love. Abortions are healthcare. Trans women are women. Trans men are men. Opinions my own. Sharing a life and a very good dog with @normwilner. www.kateatherley.com
Woolly Wormhead @woollywormhead.bsky.social 🧶 award winning knit Hat designer, tutor & author
⚙️ special interests: technique & construction
📚 Short-row Colorwork
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Franklin Habit @franklinhabit.bsky.social Author, illustrator, photographer, designer, knitter. American in Paris. Textiles fanatic. Host of patreon.com/franklinhabit. Student of Latin, Roman history nut. Devoted fan of The Archers.
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#knitting #crochet #AuDHD #science #compassion #CDN #hamont 🇨🇦
Perpetually covid vaxxed💉
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)
iTEXTILIS | The IK Workshop Society @itextilis.eurosky.social iTEXTILIS – Part of The IK Foundation @ikws.eurosky.social
– Promoting Natural & Cultural History. iTEXTILIS led by Viveka Hansen | Textile historian | Textilis.net
Fabulous Fashion! @fabulousfashion.bsky.social Fashion and dress history - historical, antique and vintage fashion and more!
Extant fashion garments, fashion plates and original photographs from 18th century to 1980s!
Occasionally also lifestyle and other extant products.
Old stuff only! 
Amy E. Elkins @amyeelkins.bsky.social Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
Cora Harrington @cora.bsky.social Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Siún Carden @s-carden.bsky.social Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for poetry, 2024. Lecturer at UHI Shetland. Anthropologish. Teaches on MA Art and Social Practice etc. From (the real) Newcastle, County Down.
https://www.siuncarden.com
Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs, Newberry Library (all views my own). PhD. Victorian Art History, #MaterialCulture, #HistoricLandscapes, those kinds of things. Also @morris-on-screen.bsky.social
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
Namita Gupta Wiggers @namitawiggers.bsky.social work to build a craftscape. Recovering academic, curator, arts admin. Working on project on craft museums, fiction, art, making a writing life.
https://substack.com/@craftscape
www.namitawiggers.com
Justyna Lorkowska @letesknits.bsky.social I design knitwear and dye pretty yarns as CecilyGroveYarns 🧶
http://justynaknits.com
#letesknits
@savoryknitting.bsky.social @savoryknitting.bsky.social https://www.ravelry.com/designers/amy-christoffers
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
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
Koloman Moser @kolomanmoser.bsky.social Austrian Artist - One of the foremost artists of the Vienna Secession movement and a co-founder of Wiener Werkstätte.
1868-1918
Automated thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Scottish Historic Buildings Trust @shbt-charity.bsky.social Scottish Historic Buildings Trust is a charity dedicated to regenerating significant historic buildings for the benefit of others throughout the whole of Scotland.
www.shbt.org.uk
National Trust for Scotland @n-t-s.bsky.social We think places that make people smile are worth caring for – support our charity so we can keep sharing them with everyone, #ForTheLoveOfScotland https://www.nts.org.uk/
Design Council @designcouncil.bsky.social The UK’s national strategic advisor for design. Making life better by design.
linktr.ee/designcouncil 
The Architectural Review @social.architectural-review.com Fearless storytelling, independent critical voices and thought-provoking architecture from around the world since 1896, in a print magazine and online
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.
New Glasgow Society @newglasgowsociety.bsky.social Aiming to promote, encourage and stimulate public interest in, and care for, the beauty, history and character of the city of Glasgow and its surroundings.
Nora Howley @norahowley.bsky.social Knitter, 🧶 teacher, researcher, questioner
Independent researcher looking at the migration of Shetland wool and knitting to the US. Website www.knittingtales.com
knitty.com @knittymag.bsky.social 
The Hunterian @hunterianglasgow.bsky.social At the heart of the University of Glasgow since 1807, The Hunterian connects people with stories, individuals and ideas.
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social Humanities, history of art, architecture & landscape; museums, libraries & collections
Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
@gailbaxterlace.bsky.social @gailbaxterlace.bsky.social Researcher, Artist, Lace Specialist & Net Maker
Research Fellow Nottingham Trent University Lace Archive
Currently looking at the introduction of colour to machine made lace
Dr. Courtney Wilder @wilderarthist.bsky.social Curator of Works on Paper, Vanderbilt University Museum of Art | Art Historian studying intersections between print media and textiles, especially in the early-mid nineteenth century
Marsely Kehoe @marselykehoe.bsky.social Early modern Dutch global art history | digital humanities | textiles | knitting | weaving | urban farming
Meaghan Walker @slopclothes.bsky.social Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. She/Her
Dr Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social chief conservator | Cleveland Museum of Art
fashion | textiles | museums | conservation
Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media
📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.