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)
Protests and Suffragettes @scotsuffragette.bsky.social A creative project led by artists, activists, & archivists. Recovering & re-voicing #herstories & Celebrating #Scotland's #Suffragettes
🗣@tsBeall @clarethompson & other P&S team members
https://linktr.ee/protestsandsuffragettes
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Emma Waghorn @waggery.bsky.social Folk choir leader (pielarks.bsky.social), amateur dancer (Morris, balfolk) and English concertina player; retired book editor, woke lefty vegan heathen, born @ 317 ppm, London, UK.
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
Reporting History @reporting-history.com Historical journalism, thoughtfully curated & brought to you from the archives.
Read all the articles at https://www.reporting-history.com/
Support the project: https://www.patreon.com/c/ReportingHistory
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
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
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 Catherine Preston @docp67.bsky.social Welsh historian
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social historian of Victorian culture & politics (esp w material culture); curator & public historian; education advocate. Obsessed with 1884. Otherwise, on a bicycle. he/him
Matthew Blake @matthew-blake.bsky.social This week: Commonplace book of James Whitehall, Poaching, Orkney, Churchwardens, Early Medieval stuff, Cider, Mercia, Orchards, little people
Anna AMD @performmonkey.bsky.social From the west coast of Scotland, now living in the heart of Europe. Photography, history, and screaming into the void. And yes, I miss the sea.
Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social Historian. Author of "Elizabeth Boleyn". Writing a book on Perkin Warbeck. Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Book History MA graduate.
morrismummer @morrismummer.bsky.social History, folklore, music, archaeology, books, Guardian reader. Castle botherer and humanist church crawler. Retired railwayman. Morris dancer and Mummers player. And trees. Lots of trees.
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Gordon Guthrie @foundationsofthedigitalstate.com Just published The Foundations Of The Digital State - a report for the Scottish Government
http://foundationsofthedigitalstate.com/
and blogs at
digitalpolicy.substack.com
Politician manqué, girl group fan, code monkey
Democritus1 @simonsays1.bsky.social Politics, gardening, history, books old and new, beer, ale glasses. Walking our dog. Financial adviser helping people ensure their financial plans support their life plans. www.eadonco.com/meet-the-team/
Tom Fairfax @tcfairfax.bsky.social Professional Orkneyinga saga enthusiast | UoN PhD | Reviews Editor, Northern Studies
Mags Campbell @magscampbell.bsky.social Lover, and writer, of myths, folklore, legends, fables, fairy tales, sci-fi, horror and fantasy.
Scribbling spin-offs of novels I haven't written yet.
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
Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher, museum crawler
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Max Telford @maxjtelford.bsky.social Zoologist and evolutionary biologist. Interested in animal phylogeny. At UCL.
Author of 'The Tree of Life: Solving Science's Greatest Puzzle'
Dr Alexander Jackson @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social Curator @nfmofficial.bsky.social Former utility DEF. Views my own.
2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize Winner for Football's Great War by Pen & Sword.
Sterling Ladies FC ⚽️ DAGENHAM INVINCIBLES @dagenhaminvince.bsky.social Grandson of Legend Lizzy Ashcroft - St Helens FC + Dick Kerr Ladies FC 1921-35
⚽️ FOOTBALL HISTORIAN ⚽️
💜 @DagenhamInvincibles 💜 TikTok 💜
Bloomsbury Sport @bloomsburysport.bsky.social Publishing books on cycling, running, football, cricket, and health & fitness from the likes of Anita Bean, Vassos Alexander, Louise Minchin and Graeme Obree.
In Walks A Woman Podcast @inwalksawoman.com Welcome to “In Walks a Woman,” a podcast about history, women, and the stories that shape us. Sonja is a historian, educator, voting activist, gardener, and brilliant cook. Vanessa loves discussing and teaching literature, all cats, and not camping.
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
Sian 🌻 @siansallpress.bsky.social Researcher in football heritage. Visiting lecturer. Archivist. Brentford supporter. I also like films and have an allotment.
Family and Community Historical Research Society @fachrs.bsky.social Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration. Our annual project for 2026 is on nursing, so expect a few posts supporting the research.
Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com Engineer.
Book: 'Up - A Scientist's Guide to the Magic Above Us'
I'm interested in connecting with those who build, explain, or bring ideas to life in unusual ways.
www.lucyrogers.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/DrLucyRogers
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Louis Shalako @louisshalako.bsky.social Louis Shalako, founder of Long Cool One Books, is the author of twenty-seven books, available from major online retailers. Louis studied Radio, TV and Journalism at Lambton College, later studying fine art.
Martin @rocky64.bsky.social Norwegian amateur genealogist. Blogging about Norwegian genealogy in English, I provide help. Other interests are reading, photography, and music (clarinet, organ and accordion) History studies with genealogy.
Website: https://martinroe.com/blog/
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Esther Sandra @draftalchemist.bsky.social Editor by profession, reader by vocation. I provide insight on editorial craft, structural pacing, and exceptional titles. https://esther-sandra.lovable.app
Perth Women on Wikipedia @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
Posts by Gill
Perth, Scotland
British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social A bot randomly posting images taken from films made by British Transport Films, a government film unit active from 1949-1986. 3 posts a day. Expect trains.
by bsky.app/profile/joegrassby.bsky.social
Éditions du Seuil @editionsduseuil.bsky.social 📚 Maison d'édition depuis 1935 📚
Littérature, romans policiers, sciences humaines, documents, beaux-livres, BD, revues spécialisées et jeunesse.
👉 https://seuil.com/
Gallica BnF @gallicabnf.bsky.social Gallica est la bibliothèque numérique de la BnF et de ses partenaires. 📚
Accès libre et gratuit à des millions de documents numérisés ➡ gallica.bnf.fr
Wikipédia en français @wikipediafr.bsky.social « Imaginez un monde dans lequel chaque personne sur la planète aurait accès à l'ensemble des connaissances humaines. »
Compte animé par des contributeurs et contributrices bénévoles de la version francophone de Wikipédia.
Les Dévalideuses @lesdevalideuses.bsky.social Le collectif handi-féministe qui démonte les idées reçues sur le handicap.
franceinfo @franceinfo.fr L'information n'est pas une opinion. L'actualité en direct et en continu avec le média global du service public
📻 radio 📱💻 web 📺 tv canal 16
www.franceinfo.fr
Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social Official journal of the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.
Marine Rouch @marinerouch.bsky.social Historian of Gender and Feminisms, 20th Century / Com. coordinator Beauvoir Society / author of Chère Simone de Beauvoir (Flammarion 2024)
Anne Verjus @anneverjus.bsky.social Histoire politique féminisme études de genre révolution française patriarcat radicalité anglaise James Henry Lawrence, Anna Wheeler maternité politique Lyon Villefontaine écologie transition bouquets véganisme Ecosse Angleterre
Sportricolore @sportricolore.bsky.social Le meilleur du sport Français !
Dicodusport @dicodusport.bsky.social L'encyclopédie de l'actualité sportive
https://dicodusport.fr/blog
Floriane Volt @fvolt.bsky.social 💡je n’ai pas de problème de tension
💜Directrice plaidoyer de la Fondation des Femmes
💜Twins mum épuisée 👦🏼👦🏻
💜 Féministe évidement
Fondation des Femmes @fondationdesfemmes.bsky.social Reconnue d'utilité publique, la Fondation des Femmes est la fondation de référence en France sur l'égalité Femmes-Hommes et la lutte contre les violences faites aux femmes
Marlène Thomas Decreusefond @marlenethomas.bsky.social Journaliste Libé - Féminismes, genre et lutte contre les violences
Colauréate Grand prix Varenne 2025
Ana pich @anapich.bsky.social Dessinatrice / Autrice
BD « Chroniques de l’injustice ordinaire » et « Garde à vue » aux éditions Massot
Journaliste indépendante
Contre les violences judiciaires
Manuscrits non sollicités @manuscrits-non.bsky.social Les propositions les plus insolites de la chaîne éditoriale.
Béatrice Barbusse @b-barbusse.bsky.social Sociologue et dirigeante sportive | Sport et entreprise, Sport et genres, Féminismes | Autrice ”Du sexisme dans le sport” et ”Dirigeantes sportives et plafond de verre” ✊🏼
Kerrie-Anne Love @kerrieannelove.bsky.social British-Australian editor of fiction and creative non-fiction. Advanced Professional Member of the Chartered Institute of Editing and Proofreading (CIEP). she/her
Living on Bundjalung Country
Kendra A. Kennedy @kendraakennedy.bsky.social Studies history of gender and slavery in British North America and early U.S.
Feministory @feministory.bsky.social History of Females | Feminine + History | Feminist + Story
Sister history archives @STEMfem.bsky.social + @Wikipatia | Alpha Kitty, Ltd.
#womenshistory + #womensrights
Juliette Marchant @juliettemarchant.bsky.social PhD Student in Political Theory at Harvard.
Host of Her Place in Theory podcast. @herplacepod.bsky.social
Formerly Sydney Uni Political Theory, Philosophy and Law.
She/her.
https://www.gov.harvard.edu/directory/juliette-marchant/
Lydia Moland @lydiamoland.bsky.social Biographer & philosopher, not necessarily in that order ✍️ Lydia Maria Child | WaPo, WSJ, Boston Globe ✦ Writing about women who rethought the world ✦Currently: 20C women rethinking war & peace ✦ 2026-7 Fellow at Harvard's Transcendentalism Initiative
A Few Forgotten Women @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social A group of ladies preserving the stories of forgotten women of the past.
https://www.fewforgottenwomen.com
STEMfem @stemfem.bsky.social STEMfem | History of Women + Girls in Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics | Sister history archives @feministory.bsky.social + @Wikipatia | Alpha Kitty, Ltd. #womenshistory + #WomenInSTEM
Libération @liberation.fr ▪️ Le compte Bluesky de Libération, avec une sélection de nos articles, enquêtes, billets et chroniques
▪️ Pour suivre les journalistes de Libé : kit de démarrage
▪️ Abonnez-vous à Libération pour tout lire : https://libe.fr/bsky/
Le Monde @lemonde.fr « Le Monde » est un journal français fondé par Hubert Beuve-Méry en 1944. C'est aussi un compte Bluesky qui poste l'actualité en continu de façon automatisée.
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
✨#WIPSnips✨ A Daily Writing Share Tag @wipsnips.bsky.social #WIPSnips is a daily writing share tag est. Sept ‘23
Share a snippet from your work using the word, a synonym, a variation or ✨vibes✨
Be kind & supportive!
Author Hype Event: #WSPit Date: Feb 24, 2027
Hosted by: @rosie-j-potter.bsky.social
Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social 작가 - American Author In Korea - Freelance Editor - Ehlers-Danlos Spoonie - Rroma - Not Immortal - She/Her/Your Worship
www.LianaBrooks.com
Read My Books: https://www.lianabrooks.com/books/
Hire Me: https://www.lianabrooks.com/editing-services/
Mslexia @mslexia.bsky.social The UK's bestselling magazine for women who write.
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
Five Leaves Bookshop @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013
Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995
www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk
We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust @nottswildlife.bsky.social We want to create a #WilderFuture for the people and wildlife of Nottinghamshire! 💚🐾
Map your wildlife action here: https://www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org/wilder-nottinghamshire
The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social Empowering authors since 1884. The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. #societyofauthors #humanauthored
Abbott World Marathon Majors @wmmajors.bsky.social It's Your World. Run It.
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
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. 
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Nottingham Playhouse @nottmplayhouse.bsky.social World-class theatre made in Nottingham.
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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Miriam Diaz-Gilbert @ultramiriam.bsky.social Paintings by Miriam | Acrylic & Oil practice
Ultramarathoner| Author Come What May, I Want to Run: A Memoir ….| Created the Miriam Diet | Healed EoE w/o chemicals | Cancer Free
Website: miriamdiazgilbert.com
Jen B @runwriteresearch.bsky.social Ultrarunning writer & PhD researcher interested in phenomenology, embodied cognition, endurance, subjectivity, affordances, research methods.
Six Days In the Dome Ultrarunning @sixdaysinthedome.bsky.social Six Days In The Dome is an ultrarunning race series...on a 443m track in West Allis, WI. Hosting races from 12h to 6 DAYS, and in 2024, a 10-day race was added!!
https://www.facebook.com/sixdaysinthedome
This account is run by Troy Freund.
Jen Scotney @jenscotney.bsky.social 📕 Author of ‘Running Through the Dark’ a memoir on grief and my ultrarunning adventures
🎙️ Host of Resilience Rising Podcast
💻 Work in Politics | Ex-lawyer
⛰️ Live Scottish Highlands
UltraRunning Magazine @ultrarunningmag.bsky.social Serving a loyal market of long-distance runners since 1981, UltraRunning Magazine has long been established as "the voice of the sport".
Diana Moskovitz @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social By day, investigations editor @defector.com. By night, writing a book about Alice Milliat, who got women's athletics into the Olympics.
For book updates: https://tinyurl.com/dianambook
diana@defector.com
dfmoskovitz@protonmail.com
Signal: dmoskovitz.99
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
Imogen Cook @birosmudged.bsky.social PhD researcher, writer, auntie. Clumsy but resilient. Currently looking at the links between health and travel in Anne Lister’s diaries and letters. they/she
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
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Stuart Gibbs @stu68.bsky.social Sports historian studying at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Max Portman @whuhistorian.bsky.social West Ham historian & PhD candidate.
@bssh.bsky.social Membership Sec.
@sportinhistorypod.bsky.social & thewesthamsyndrome.bsky.social Host.
Co-Convenor of Sports & Leisure History Seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
@footycon.bsky.social co-organiser
He/Him.
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Andy Carter @andykerrcarter.bsky.social Historian of classical reception, nationalism & class in 19th c sport. Author of Beyond the Pale. New book - Games, Greek & Pluck - published by Peter Lang. Bassist. Partick Thistle & Dulwich Hamlet fan.
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
CRICKETher @crickether.com Women's cricket news, views & charts.
Catch the CRICKETher Weekly with Raf Nicholson and Syd Egan on https://www.youtube.com/@crickether
Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social Ex-D1 swimmer, historian, ADHDer, @endofsportpod.bsky.social. A sportsperson for life who critiques it to make it better for others. Writing slowly on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Elena Mary @elenamary.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
https://elenamary.co.uk
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