Kat @byekitty.bsky.social work: yelling at 270 years of archives backlog; freelance copyediting (available!)
leisure: needlework, snacks, parkrun tourism, cricket despair, sweepstakes
cats: Malka the rescue kitten, Penelope-in-the-Wardrobe
Folk on Foot @folkonfoot.com The multi-award-winning all walking, talking and singing podcast, presented by @matthewbannister.bsky.social
Find out more at www.folkonfoot.com.
ROB COWEN @robcowen.bsky.social Author of THE NORTH ROAD (2025) // COMMON GROUND (2015) // THE HEEDING (2021) // and others...
Writer // journalist // poet
Dr Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social Academic working on Gender & Language in Greek tragedy, and gender in historical video games. Also a lot of women's cricket chat. Views all mine.
Andrew Samson @awsstats.bsky.social Cricket statistician
http://andrewsamson.substack.com
Chandini Jaswal @jaswalc05.bsky.social She/her. Avid Learner of History. Postgrad. Law Student
Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026 @unravellingpalaeo.bsky.social Unravelling the Palaeolithic 2026 | UCL Institute of Archaeology | 19/06/2026-20/06/2026
Two days of all things Palaeolithic, Palaeoanth + Pleistocene
https://sites.google.com/view/unravelling-the-palaeolithic/home
*Logo by Tabitha Paterson
Stef North-Sagrott @archaeostef.bsky.social Trade Unionist; Archaeologist; Senior Cultural Resources Advisor for the Historic Scotland Properties in Care
National Heritage Science Forum @nhsf.bsky.social Bringing the heritage science community together to improve collaboration, make better use of research, and demonstrate the public benefit of heritage science.
Scotland's Archaeology Strategy @scotarchstrat.bsky.social We want to live in a Scotland where archaeology is for everyone! https://archaeologystrategy.scot/
Elizabeth Ammon @elizabethammon.bsky.social Cricket reporter at the Times and Sunday Times. Hockey player. Tea drinker. Vice President Sheff collegiate CC and Barnes CC. Single mum. Insomniac. These are my Personal views etc etc. I think that just about covers it all.
WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com Your Only Source For Professional Dog Ratings
nonprofit: @15outof10.org ❤️🩹
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@tag26exeter.bsky.social @tag26exeter.bsky.social 
Charlotte Walker @staysleeping.bsky.social Historic Environment Record Officer for Northamptonshire.
Local government archaeologist and runner. ❤️ art, music, science and kind fools🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Sarah Lidwell-Durnin @sarahlidwelldurnin.bsky.social Archaeology PhD candidate @ Bristol working on craniometry, Arthur Evans & the Minoans🏺💀
Archives volunteer @ Griffith Institute & Ashmolean Museum
In Oxford/from Dublin
Reading: Queen's Play, Dorothy Dunnett
Dr Victoria Austen @vickyausten.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Public Engagement Coordinator for @peoplingthepast.bsky.social
Gif Enthusiast.
My own unique mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇺🇸
victoriaausten.com
Peopling The Past @peoplingthepast.bsky.social Free, open-access resources for teaching and learning about real people in the ancient world #PeoplingPodcast #PeoplingVideos #PeoplingBlog
peoplingthepast.com
Dr Alice Rose @alicekensa.bsky.social Bioarchaeologist: archaeology | isotopes | osteology | palaeopathology. Areas of study include medieval plague and diet in early modern Ireland. Currently a PDRA on the RATTUS project applying isotope analysis to archaeological rats. All views my own!
Charlotte Bowyer @charlottebowyer.bsky.social AHRC PhD student studying Old English literature • she/her
Ellie Mackin Roberts @sometimesellieruns.bsky.social Just here to document my running.
Main account: @elliemackinroberts.net
Strava: https://strava.app.link/cXcfOyHB0Zb
Garmin: https://connect.garmin.com/app/profile/NeonAnonymous
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sometimesellieruns
Abby Hipkin @desirablecalamity.bsky.social She/her, trainer, mum, coach, INFJ, owner of 0.01% of a Colin Dexter sculpture that doesn't exist yet. Nearly a black belt. Often found in libraries, museums, lecture theatres or churches. All views & art either my own or credited appropriately.
Dr Charlotte Parsonson-Young @charlie-l-y.bsky.social Early modern & genealogy tutor at Conted Oxford. Lecturer at Wake Forest Uni (London campus). Writing on English Civil War sequestration, & John Bradshawe. Vice-Chair of @Cromwellorg.bsky.social. Reviews Editor of @MidlandHistory.bsky.social.
CIfA Finds Group @cifa-finds.bsky.social Artefacts, Ecofacts, Conservation - from project conception to archive! We represent the interests of those working with finds in all the activities of CIfA.
For more info follow the link: www.archaeologists.net/groups/finds
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat.
https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
@runninglady42.bsky.social @runninglady42.bsky.social Dedicated runner and long distance walker obsessed with parkrun. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Owned by two retired racing greyhounds.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Wendy Allen @wendycaitlin.bsky.social Poet.
Portrait in Mustard - Seren Books.
PhD candidate: Barbara Hepworth,
Creative Writing & Art History - MMU.
Agent: Laetitia Rutherford at WatsonLittle.
@budhaig.bsky.social @budhaig.bsky.social Ecologist. Mother. Cricket Coach. Not really made for a post-fact world. She/her. @budhaig on the other places
Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social The official Bluesky thinking page of the Icelandic Cricket Association. Birthplace of cricket (911 CE). Merchandise: https://s66sportswear.co.uk/icelandcricket
Website: krikket.is
Coral Morphologic @coralmorphologic.bsky.social Human-Coral Symbiosis ◦ Est. 2007 ◦ Miami, Florida ◦ https://bsky.app/profile/coralcitycamera.bsky.social ◦ https://coralmorphologic.com
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Dr Svenja Bethke @svenjabethke.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern European History ⎜Holocaust, Jewish history, migration, fashion & visual culture - author of 'Dance on the Razor's Edge: Crime and Punishment in the Nazi Ghettos' (UTP 2021) ⎜AHRC-funded project on Dress and Migration
Running Past @runningpast.bsky.social SE London history & landscape, paused blogger, socialist, green, runner, #goodgym member, #greenrunner, acting curator of #TidesOutTuesday, views mine, poor proof reader - he/him/me duck, real name Paul
The Ridiculous Ashes Podcast @ridiculousashes.bsky.social Dan Liebke (@liebcricket.com) & Alex Bowden (@kingcricket.co.uk) examining historical Ashes series to find out which nation is more ridiculous at cricket, England or Australia.
dgplacenames (now in Orkney) @dgplacenames.bsky.social Place-names, maps, languages dgplacenames.wordpress.com
auldnorse.wordpress.com/owersettins/
DAISY CUTTER @daisycutterzine.bsky.social 🌼 An alternative cricket fanzine
🌼 Submissions: daisycutterzine@gmail.com
🌼 ISSUE 003 - https://issuu.com/daisycutterzine/docs/daisycutter003
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
StanleyBurtonCentre @uolsbc.bsky.social The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies is an interdisciplinary research centre within the University of Leicester.
https://le.ac.uk/stanley-burton
DMU Archives and Rare Books @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social De Montfort University Special Collections, part of Library and Student Services. Explore our collections on our catalogue: http://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk
Avi Goldstein @avnergoldstein.bsky.social Environmental historian and archaeologist interested in coasts, fish, oysters, and other forms of marine life in Roman Britain and in other times and places. #envhum #envhist #oceanhist #oysters 🏺🦪🌊
(C)aroline Sam(P)son @sampscaroline.bsky.social Chair of Trustees: Archives West Midlands. Coventry City supporter. Interested in the natural world, astronomy, butterflies and moths. Trying to work out what I can do about climate emergency.
Zara Fahim @zarafahim15.bsky.social AHRC Midlands4Cities-funded PhD linguistics (modern languages) @ uni of nottingham 🗣️🇦🇹🏔️• activities secretary @ LAGBPSC • linguist • language contact | MFL uptake & policy • she/her •🪴☕️🐹🌷🦍
https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/zara-fahim/
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social Squid biologist
Science communicator
Artist
Philadelphian
I run @SkypeAScientist.bsky.social
Creator of the SquidMobile
https://linktr.ee/Sarahmackattack
Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social Art historian, dealer/art consultant 19thC and 20thC British/European art. Writing book on lesser known great artists. Seen in/on: CNN, NBC, The Spectator, The Times etc.
website: richardmorris.org
richard@richardmorris.org
Michelle @michellebrook.bsky.social Cornish, currently living in Cheshire.
Environment, data, tech, policy and community.
Reads a lot, loves silly adventures. 
University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge @zoologymuseum.bsky.social The University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge is one of the UK's largest & most important natural history collections. Thousands of specimens on display including one of the world's most complete dodo skeletons.
www.museum.zoo.cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge Museums @camunivmuseums.bsky.social Eight University of Cambridge Museums & the Botanic Garden | Five million marvellous objects to discover | Come on in! museums.cam.ac.uk
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology @maacambridge.bsky.social Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, telling two million years of human history 🗺
Website: maa.cam.ac.uk/
Collections: collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/
Blog: maadigitallab.org/
Fran @whingewhingewine.co.uk Escaped from The Bad Place with a Labrador and a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc.
www.whingewhingewine.co.uk
From the 96% of the world that isn't the USA.
Jean-François Cudennec @limpetnerd.eurosky.social 🔬 Limpet scientist (PhD) | Marine biology, paleontology & coastal archaeology
📸 Also nature photographer
https://www.instagram.com/jfcudennec?igsh=MW9mbGVpdzF0YXdrcA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
@cathedrallibrarian.bsky.social @cathedrallibrarian.bsky.social Worcester Cathedral library has many interesting books and documents.
Carmel Bones @carmelbones.bsky.social Works extensively in schools providing solutions! Interested in all things learning and teaching.
New book 📚 coming Spring 2026 https://amzn.eu/d/ej9PmsV
Current Archaeology @currentarchaeology.bsky.social The UK's favourite archaeology magazine. Tweets by Editor Carly and team.
Subscribe today: https://archaeology.co.uk/subscriptions
Laura Parker @lauraparker.bsky.social Countryside writer, sheep keeper, drystone wall lover. Features for Country Life mag on the fun and the fascinating. Lives in Cotswolds, from Scottish Borders. Late of ChipLitFest, which is now sadly an ex-LitFest.
nicola @gleanniucha.bsky.social “Special engagements or first-class companies only”
Sometimes engineers, sometimes DJs, irregularly bakes stuff
Back in Scotland 🏴 the long way round
Will discuss anything with anyone so long we all play nicely
#jazzsky #scotsky
🏴 🇮🇹 🏳️⚧️ 🇪🇺
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social The Vernacular Architecture Group was formed in 1952 to further the study of traditional buildings, originally those of the British Isles. Today the VAG also reflects a growing interest in buildings from other parts of the world. https://www.vag.org.uk
Petra Vaiglova @petravaiglova.bsky.social Lecturer in Archaeological Science at The Australian National University | interests: biomolecular archaeology, isotope analyses, human-environment interactions, new statistics; TEDx speaker
https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/petra-vaiglova
Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social LRS Nigel Burn Fellow at Divinity Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Medieval Loyalty Research Network co-organiser (https://medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk). Charters, property, environment, and regional society. Occasional archaeologist
Dr Malice @atarbuck.bsky.social Poet & academic. Author of ‘A Spell in the Wild'& 'Modern Craft'. Queer as a bent penny, likes the sea, silk stockings, an excess of green. 🏳️🌈 she/they. Crepuscular/ Chaucerian/ enamoured of rot.
Conversation Kenge @fenken.bsky.social Archaeological geophysicist, heritage nerd, Running Punk, musician and ex-dancer.
Half Zen Quaker panda, half angry honey badger
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Alison Foster @alisonfoster.bsky.social Zooarchaeologist based in Worcestershire. Malvern Buzzards Running Club. Cats (well, just the one cat). Power metal
Don O'Meara @donomeara.bsky.social Archaeologist in North East England, interested in all things archaeobotany, environmental archaeology, and local history and archaeology research. Editor of Archaeologia Aeliana. President of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle.
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Centre for Artefacts and Materials Analysis (CAMA) @cama-york.bsky.social Global leaders in the application of state-of-the art methods used to study archaeological materials and artefacts throughout the ages.
Department of Archaeology, University of York
Association of Cricket Statisticians & Historians @acscricket.bsky.social ACS is the leading authority on cricket statistics worldwide. We enjoy, interpret & publish research on cricket statistics & history. Join the ACS https://acscricket.com
Also at https://mstdn.social & @acscricket
University of Leicester @uniofleicester.bsky.social 🏆 University of the Year (Daily Mail 2025, Shortlisted by THE Awards 2024 & The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025)
#CitizensOfChange
St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social Founded in 1473 and known as ‘Catz’, we’re a welcoming, thriving & vibrant community in the heart of Cambridge. A College of @cam.ac.uk.
Visit caths.cam.ac.uk
Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid Roman historian and archaeologist. Lecturer
@UofGlasgow. She/her. Represented by
@pew_literary, published by @HoZ_Books.
Dr Thomas J. Derrick 🧪🌺🏛 ⛏📚 @tjderrick.bsky.social Archaeologist and Social Historian - Glass, perfumes/medicines, the senses, & the everyday in the Roman World. Gale Research Fellow
at Macquarie University - He/Him. 🇬🇧 in 🇦🇺 on unceded Cammeraygal and Wallumattugal (Dharug) Land
Becca Gregory @beccagregs.bsky.social Fan of place-names, dogs, vikings, and general silliness. Teaching and researching names, medieval language, and digital pedagogy @ Uni of Nottingham. She/her
Lee Madgwick @leemadgwick.bsky.social UK based fine artist. Painter (mostly). Dog person (obviously). Abandoned/derelict building enthusiast. Wayfarer. Visionary. Procrastinator.
No NFTs. No AI.
http://www.leemadgwick.co.uk
leemadgwickart on instagram
NPicts @northernpicts.bsky.social The bluesky social media channel for the University of Aberdeen Northern Picts project @northernpicts on Facebook
All things Pictish/early medieval/Aberdeen/Scotland/Archaeology/Hilforts/Digital
@lpfgsocmedia.bsky.social @lpfgsocmedia.bsky.social 
Helen Carr @helencarr.bsky.social Times and Sunday Times best-selling author
Medieval Historian
Mother of Doggos
SCEPTRED ISLE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY OUT MAY 2025 (Hutchinson Heinemann, Penguin Random House)
Bloomsbury Wildlife @chiffchat.bsky.social 📚Natural history from Bloomsbury Publishing
🌳Nature writing, field guides & more
🍃Imprints include Bloomsbury Wildlife, Helm and Poyser
Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social Blog de diffusion de la recherche en histoire médiévale.
Compte tenu principalement par Florian Besson.
Retrouvez nos articles sur https://actuelmoyenage.wordpress.com/
Midlands Innovation @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social A world-class university research partnership, pooling the collective excellence of universities in the Midlands.
Eva Mol🍉 @evamol.bsky.social Lecturer Roman ArchaeologyUoY; slow archaeology; from Drenthe; lover of everything conceptual
Dr Eleanor Baker @eleanormaybaker.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval English and AFY English Subject Lead (Ox) ¶ Author of BOOK CURSES for Bodleian Publishing ¶ Being critically creative @guildmedmak.bsky.social ¶ Liker of material texts, medieval folk horror, university access & print making ¶ She/her
Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social Historian, archivist and researcher, College of Arms and the Vintners’ Company. Secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art.
The Next Test @thenexttest.org 🏏🌍 Cricket, Climate and Sustainability
🌳 linktr.ee/thenexttestcricket
Prof Serena Trowbridge @serena-t.bsky.social Professor of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Birmingham City University. Chair, Pre-Raphaelite Society, Senior VP, Birmingham and Midland Institute. Books, art, nature, stone circles, ballet, fresh air. https://serenatrowbridge.substack.com/
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, paperback out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Katy @ithilienorthend.bsky.social Left-wing, cricket-loving, all-singing-all-dancing zoologist-turned-statistician
Cover alt-text: Scarborough Cricket Ground
https://ashestourist.wordpress.com/
Martin Emmerson @martycricket.bsky.social Journalist of 30+ years.
Cricket commentator for BBC Sport covering Durham CCC. Presenter/reporter on BBC Radio Newcastle for 28 years. Sunderland. Cycling. Cricket. North East England. Roker Riviera.
Paul @paul867.bsky.social 
Dr Keri Thomas @drkerithomas.bsky.social Manuscript theorist. Joyful spite. ‘Memory & the Digital Manuscript: Resurrection, Divinity & New Materiality’ (2026) https://www.routledge.com/Memory-and-the-Digital-Manuscript-Resurrection-Divinity-and-New-Materiality/Thomas/p/book/9781032966656
song of songs bot @songofsongsbot.bsky.social posts a verse/section every six hours from my favorite book of the bible/tanakh.
by @alice.bsky.sh
translation: http://benwhitmore.altervista.org/song-solomon/
source: https://github.com/aliceisjustplaying/songofsongs-bot-bsky
Society For Museum Archaeology @socmusarch.bsky.social The Society for Museum Archaeology promotes the interest of archaeology in museums and offers support to everyone working with archaeological collections. https://socmusarch.org.uk/
Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social Environmental psychologist: transport, energy, water, buildings. "Woke scientist" (Daily Mail). Head of Psychology, Swansea University 🏴. Charity trustee x2. @locastproject.bsky.social My views
World Record-breaking cyclist drianwalker.com
The Guild of Medievalist Makers @guildmedmak.bsky.social A society for medievalist academic and academic-adjacent practitioners of creative-critical work.
Want to join the Guild? Take a look at our website: https://www.guildmedmak.com/
Skylight Social @skylight.social ✨Join Skylight, report bugs, suggest features:
https://beacons.ai/skylight.social
Kevin Howells @kevinhowells.bsky.social 🎙️ 📻 🏏 🎵 📚
“Silver Springs is a great old song”
Claire Osborn @claireosborn.bsky.social Trade union organiser. Industrial Relations PhD-er. Accidental fossil hunter. Tired of it all. Shropshire Lass
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks