Following

@roseteanby.bsky.social

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.
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Herschel Museum of Astronomy @herschelmuseum.bsky.social The Herschel Museum of Astronomy is the home of William and Caroline Herschel, distinguished astronomers and musicians. Patron: Sir Brian May 🔭🎸 https://herschelmuseum.org.uk/
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now. https://independenthistorians.org
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk Buildings Historian/Consultant Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk FRHistS ACIfA Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist Rep PastPreservers Brum/London
INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group . . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support. www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
History of Art, University of Oxford @oxfordhistoryofart.bsky.social The Department of History of Art, University of Oxford. https://www.hoa.ox.ac.uk
Liz Watkins @liziwat.bsky.social colour, photography & film researcher | convenor BAFTSS Colour & Film https://colourandfilm.com/cfps/ @BAFTSSColorFilm | ❤️ cycling & archives
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Laura Cumming @lauracummingart.bsky.social Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
Gil Pasternak @gilpasternak.bsky.social Professor of Photographic Cultures & Heritage at De Montfort University Leicester, UK • Director of Photographic History Research Centre @phrc-dmu.bsky.social • EU & UK Editor of the peer-reviewed quarterly Photography & Culture
PHRC @phrc-dmu.bsky.social The Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) is a hub for innovative research into photography and its broader social and cultural significance based at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Laura Brown @laurabrownuk.bsky.social Curator, Photography at @uniofstandrews.bsky.social Come for the photos, stay for the silliness. Views are entirely my own. https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurawatsonbrown/ she/her
Katerina Korola @katerinakorola.bsky.social Art historian and media scholar. Assistant Professor @UMN, PhD'21 @UChicago. Plant amateur, postcard collector, cat person.
Monika ☕️ @afternoontea.bsky.social Photography, cyanotypes, occasional doodler Celiac. Always knitting. Make my tea loose leaf https://thesmelloffixer.wordpress.com
Amy Freeborn @amyfreeborn.bsky.social Head of Content and Digital (9-5), writer and public historian (rest of the time). Driven by curiosity and creativity.
Steve Ellwood @tynesnapper.bsky.social Retired, Local Historian, Snapper, Newcastle City Guide. Author of Newcastle in 50 Buildings, River Tyne, 50 Gems of Northumberland by Amberley Publishing.
ʙᴜᴅɪ ɴ. ᴅ. ᴅʜᴀʀᴍᴀᴡᴀɴ @budinddharmawan.bsky.social There is no money in writing photography Awkward outcast in Yogyakarta, Indonesia instagram.com/budinddharmawan
Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd. Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives She/her https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/ Research/writing services: https://helenglew.com
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @erinacean@h-net.social www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities Associate Director @LSRIOxford Anglican Priest https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Gem Toes-Crichton @gemblina.bsky.social Photography | Botany | Ecology Research: Women in botany. Teaching: Photography Oxford, UK📍Usually in a field surveying flora and protected fauna. https://www.instagram.com/gemblina
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs. Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Kelly Marino @kmarino1.bsky.social Historian | https://nyupress.org/9781479825196/votes-for-college-women/ | https://twitter.com/K_Marino1 | https://sacredheart.academia.edu/KellyMarino
@nieveslimon.bsky.social @nieveslimon.bsky.social Profesora e investigadora en la UCLM. Fotografía, documental, cultura visual
@janinef64.bsky.social @janinef64.bsky.social
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
Allison MacDuffee @studiousgal.bsky.social Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Sometimes teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Canadian. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.
Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social Art historian of medicine Asst Prof, Health Humanities & Bioethics @ Uni of Rochester plastic surgery illustration, anonymity, humor Book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/putting-plastic-surgery-on-paper/ @drawingbloodpod.bsky.social co-host she / her
Rupert Rivett @rupertrivett.bsky.social 📸 Photographer | capturing life's candid moments with my camera 📸 🌍 https://rupertrivett.photoshelter.com 🌍 #RealStreetPhotography #Photojournalism| Skilled in unobtrusive, authentic #storytelling 📣NEW SUBSTACK 📔 👇📸👇📸👇📸👇📸 https://rupephoto.substack.com/
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
RPS Historical Group @rpshistgroup.bsky.social The Historical Group of the Royal Photographic Society. Promoting the history of photography through talks, visits and our journal, The PhotoHistorian. https://rps.org/groups/historical/
James Opp @jamesopp.bsky.social History, photographic studies, 80s pop culture, and slurpees. Carleton University jamesopp.com
Jason Hill @jasonedwardhill.bsky.social Professor teaching about photography and visual culture; convalescent skateboard old-timer. Wrote a book about art and journalism against fascism. Writing a book about photography and police radio.
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
UnOfPhoto @unofphoto.bsky.social Photographic conversation and debate curated by Dr Grant Scott Subject Coordinator Photography UG and PG at Oxford Brookes University. The weekly A Photographic Life podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts... www.unitednationsofphotography.com
@rwatson1839.bsky.social @rwatson1839.bsky.social
University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk Welcome to our official account 👋 Follow for the latest news, research and updates about life at Oxford.
Tim Greyhavens @thegreyhavens.bsky.social Photo historian, lover of art and life. Author of Artistic and Life-Like: Photography in Washington, 1850-1900. #photohistory www.timgreyhavens.com "I've never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks." ~Daniel Boone
Dr. David Barber @pressphotoman.bsky.social Photohistorian | Writer | Lecturer https://open.substack.com/pub/pressphotoman?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=30cqis
Allisterm @allisterm.bsky.social Curator. Museums, galleries, archives, libraries ⟐ Culture geek ⟐ TTRPGs ⟐ analogue photography ⟐ queer stuff 🏳️‍🌈. Views are mine. RP≠endorsements. He/him.
Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social A stunning Victorian building home to 7 million objects. Free entry, open 10-5 every day.
Harry Ransom Center @ransomcenter.bsky.social Humanities research library and museum at @utaustintx | Opening August 15: The Worlds of Gertrude Stein • Opening August 29: Houdini’s Library
Horniman Museum and Gardens @hornimanmuseum.bsky.social
Somerville College, Oxford @somervillecollege.bsky.social Come to Somerville and learn to change the world 🌍 Proudly different since 1879 👩‍ One of the first University Colleges of Sanctuary 🧡 Home to @oxindiacentre.bsky.social
Trinity College, Oxford @trinityoxford.bsky.social Official account of Trinity College, Oxford.
George Eastman Museum @eastmanmuseum.bsky.social World's foremost museum of photography & cinema located in Rochester, NY on the historic estate of George Eastman, the pioneer of popular photography. Plan your visit at eastman.org.
Corey Keller @coreykeller510.bsky.social Historian of photography with an insatiable curiosity about the nineteenth century. Transplanted Californian but keeping my east coast snark.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org
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/
Kendra Bean @kendrabean.bsky.social Photography curator. Film lover. Voracious reader. Occasional writer. Author of books on Vivien Leigh and Ava Gardner 🍷 🇺🇸 —> 🇬🇧 https://linktr.ee/kjbreads
Adrienne Lundgren @silversunbeam.bsky.social Photograph conservator, author of Magnificent Intentions, into technical art history and 19th century photography.
AlternativePhotography.com @alternativephotography.com Alternative photographic processes since 1999 Learn, get inspired and connect. Anthotypes, chlorophyll prints, cyanotypes, gum bichromates, platinum palladium and much more.
Martin Jürgens @martinjuergens.bsky.social Conservator of Photographs at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and PhD candidate at Photographic History Research Centre, De Montfort University, Leicester UK https://the-eye.nl #conservation #photography #daguerreotype #parsonrussellterrier
Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5. She/her
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art 🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
James Hamilton @lixmount.bsky.social Photography and Photographic History. Now Page: http://jameshamilton.co.uk Photographs: http://www.lixmount.com
Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social 🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History ✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch 🎬 Presenter @englishheritage 📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency She/her
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social Reader in Photographic History & Visual Culture | Writing a book on the photographic darkroom 1850s-1910s I Editor at Visual Culture in Britain https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/886x9?sec
P Petra Trnkova @ptrnkova.bsky.social Photo historian | all about 19thC photography | now esp. photo/mechanical reproduction | duplicates | counterfeits
Aileen Fyfe @aileenfyfe.bsky.social Historian of academic publishing, science and academia, Uni of St Andrews. Muses on technology, peer review, gender, finances, communities. she/her http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6794…
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Geoff Belknap @curatorgeoff.bsky.social Keeper of Science and Technology at National Museums Scotland. Historian of photography, science, museums and visual culture. He/him. Views my own.
Steffen Siegel @steffensiegel.bsky.social Optimistic Berliner • Professor for the Theory and History of Photography at Folkwang University of the Arts, Essen • Chairman of the Essen Center for Photography
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times. https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
Arne Langleite @arnet.bsky.social Photo-historian, curator and archivist, occasionaly even photographer. Keen on early northern light photography, mid 20th century picture agencies and architectural photography.
Anja H. Langgåt @anjalanggaat.bsky.social Historian, Norsk Folkemuseum. Currently researching the Norwegian photographic industry 1940-2010. Photo history, business history, marketing, Kodak.
Ruth Quinn @ruthquinn.bsky.social Curator of image making and taking, brittle plates and papery memories, pixels, brass lenses, plastic boxes all the miscellaneous things that make up a photographic collection. Bradford, West Yorks.
Fabian Röderer @fabianroe.bsky.social Historian of #Art, #Photography and #Exhibitions 🧑🏻‍🎨 📸 🖼️ lecturer at the History of Art Department at Universität Hamburg linktr.ee/FabianR_derer he/him
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Tony Richards @tonyrichards.bsky.social Senior Photographer at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library. Practitioner of historic photographic processes. Photographer - Collector - Experimenter https://linktr.ee/tony.richards
Deborah Parkin @deborahparkin.bsky.social Photography - Art - Literature - Women’s Photo History - Bookbinding - Printing - Women Artists - Gardening - Walking Living on the moors in Northumberland with family, animals & camera.
100 Histories in 100 Worlds in 1 Object @100histories.bsky.social The Global South revisits the BBC/British Museum's A History of the World in 100 Objects. A dynamic decolonial grassroots project. 1 Object tells 100 Histories of 100 Worlds. https://100histories100worlds.org/
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
NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social One of the finest collections of natural history literature, art and online resources. Come and research with us Tuesday - Thursday 10.00 - 16.00 (by appointment). linktr.ee/nhmlibraryarchives (Natural History Museum, London and Tring)
James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social Writer: 'Anton Walbrook' (2020) 'Joseph Pike' (2018) & 'A Carnal Medium' (2012), photohistorian, archivist of Middle East collections at Exeter University, runs the Digital Archive of the Middle East (https://dame.exeter.ac.uk/), collector & bibliophile
Justin Carville @justinmcarville.bsky.social Photography Historian | Researcher | Writer | Academic | Public Sector Worker | The Ungovernable Eye | Currently writing on photography, racialization and Ireland | Values and Opinions my own
Dr Caroline Douglas @carolinedouglas.bsky.social Artist / Researcher Gender and Class in Early Photography in Scotland 2025 Fellow, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine 2024 PhD Graduate, Royal College of Art, London www.carolinedouglasphotography.co.uk
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present. https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Emma Hyde @emma1616.bsky.social
Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social www.ras.ac.uk
Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social Academic journal dedicated to exploring, expanding, rethinking, and re-imagining visual culture and Britain. Published by Taylor & Francis.
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/
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us! linktr.ee/victoriansociety Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/ Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
Photogenealogy @photogenealogy.bsky.social Ann Larkham BSc, MPhil, PGCert. www.photogenealogy.co.uk Photogenealogist, writer, speaker, zoologist, ex-BBC Camerawoman, crocheteer and lifelong Trekkie. Living in and loving Scotland. I love #OldPhotos!
Journal of Art in Society @artinsociety.bsky.social Philip McCouat writes in-depth articles on art, history and social change in the Journal of Art in Society at http://artinsociety.com
Simon Roberts @simoncroberts.com // Artist (of sorts) // Exploring Britain’s cultural & political landscape since 2005 // Monographs inc Motherland, We English, Pierdom & Merrie Albion http://linktr.ee/simoncroberts
Molly Caenwyn @mollycaenwyn.bsky.social PhD researcher of The Home Darkroom and the Freedom of Photographic Production in Britain, 1950s - Present. LGBTQIA+ photographic history. Photographic artist and avid cross stitcher (they/them)
Carolyn Mendelsohn @carolynmendelsohn.bsky.social Photographer Nikon Europe & RPS Ambassador Winner RPS IPE 159/160; Portrait of Britain 2017/19/21/23 Artist in Residence Born In Bradford Founder of Through Our Lens Speaker
Damian Hughes @damianph.bsky.social Photohistorian. Historian of science. Ecologist. Author of 'Picturing Ecology: Photography and the birth of a new science.'
Francis Hodgson @fhodgson.bsky.social Writing on Photography Linktr.ee/francishodgson
Wayne Ford @wayneford.co.uk Creative Direction and Design / Creative Strategy / Design Management / Visual Consultancy. wayneford.co.uk
National Science and Media Museum @mediamuseum.bsky.social Exploring the science and culture of image and sound technologies. Home to @picturevillecinema.bsky.social. Based in Bradford. 🎥 Plan your next visit: scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk
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
Sarah French @sjfrenchie.bsky.social 🏛️Curatorial Fellow in Photography supported by The Bern Schwartz Family Foundation at the V&A. 📖 PhD on the collections of Lady Annie Brassey (1839-1887).