ADHD librarian @librarianadhd.bsky.social Disorganized librarian. Love reading, if I can find the book I just put down. Knits in random moments. Fascinated by genealogy, archaeology. Cats π β‘οΈ. Fibromyalgia. ADHD. Map geek. Recreational spreadsheets. Fueled by tea.
Lucy Jameson @lucyanne.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Researching disabled expertise and adaptations to technology in the British Post Office #histtech #histsci #histmed
Long-suffering NUFC supporter
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Brett Smith - Professor, Durham University @brettsmithprof.bsky.social - Moving Social Work http://bit.ly/4mexJU4. https://bit.ly/3ZAC635
- CMOs Physical Activity & Disability Lead bit.ly/34jX9xb
- Coproduction http://bit.ly/3L1NGdI
- ResearchGate: Qualitative & PA disability papers https://bit.ly/436DsF7
WhoJewThinkYouAre Podcast @whojewthinkur.bsky.social A new podcast about inclusive Jewish histories and identities - from Asia, Africa, and the Americas - and more! To find out more, subscribe at https://linktr.ee/eylanezekielwhojew
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/α ααα α₯α¨α°ααα© αα. Dad!
Ben Gross @bhgross144.bsky.social Head of Fellowships & Scholarly Programs at the Harry Ransom Center; Author of The TVs of Tomorrow-How RCA's Flat-Screen Dreams Led to the First LCDs (Chicago 2018). Posting in a personal capacity.
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Kitty Ross @curatorkitty.bsky.social Curator of Leeds History, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Loves material culture, the great outdoors and singing.
Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
Find out More At: linktr.ee/dis_studies
Dr Felicity McGeown @fmcgeown.bsky.social Anthropologist, Historian and Researcher, Consultant with Disabled Students UK, Project Officer with Pride Cymru for the Stronger Together Project
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Kate Dossett @katedossett.bsky.social Historian of theatre, culture, archives; Author of Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal; Collaborator on STAGING THE ARCHIVE: bringing to life plays by Black Theatre Makers working in early 20th Century Britain in the Lord Chamberlainβs Plays Collection.
Dr. Daniel P. Jones @danielpjones.bsky.social Crip-queer disability scholar + creative practitioner | Tourette Syndrome, Creative Research Methods, Public Space (+ more) | Assistant Professor (Research) @durhamimh.bsky.social + durhamsociology.bsky.social | Co-Lead @ndhumanities.bsky.social |
Gill Porter @gillskap.bsky.social Disabled Postgraduate Researcher (Centre for Disability Studies, Uni of Leeds) & HE Study Skills Tutor. Quals research on ableism & postgraduate 'belonging' in UK universities. Coffee drinker, cat lover, veggie, nature/cities, can be a bit sweary. She/her.
Sport in History @sportinhistory.bsky.social Sport in history is the official academic journal of @bssh.bsky.social, covering sport history from all contexts and eras.
You can also check out our podcast: @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Theo Riviere @triviere.bsky.social Historian of early modern England | Child Disability π³οΈβππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ«π· he/him
'Child Disability in Early Modern England (1550-1750)'
https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/178138/
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
laura cowley @lauracowley.bsky.social Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online
Dr Zara Bain @zaranosaur.bsky.social Postdoc philosopher in social & political | mama to small people | disabled, chronically ill and audhd | professionally tired | founder and director of disabled-majority transcription and closed captioning social biz @aat-transcribes.bsky.social | goof
Disability Matters @dismatters.bsky.social A six year international programme of disability, health and science. Wellcome Trust Discretionary Award.
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/ihuman/disability-matters
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Ellen Stewart @profellenstu.bsky.social probably typing with a cat on my shoulder | Professor of Public Policy & Health @uofgussp University of Glasgow | Editor, Sociology of Health & Illness | Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences | author 'How Britain Loves the NHS' @policypress
Natalya D @natalyad.bsky.social Deaf and disabled cis queer woman. Interests in law, disability justice, cats, technology. Drinks a lot of tea.
Jasmine Sahu-Hough @jazimunda.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Classics and History at Yale University. I study disability in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece!
Meredith Peruzzi @meredith.cc Queer deaf PhD student in museum studies; museum accessibility consultant. Critical disability theorist supporting the radical model. r/AH mod. Genderqueer. DC-based. Pado! π
http://meredith.cc
Sally Lewis @sallyel.bsky.social Freelance Curator, cross sector collaborator, museums, dance, dance in museums, creative methods, collections #DancingHeritage. Lived experience energy-limiting sleep disorder. Co-producer Active Inclusion: Equity in Employment (find us on Linked-In)
Nicola Kelly @nicolakelly.bsky.social Museum person, working for two brilliant museums π
Inclusion, collections, outreach, community. #DylanThomas #PASCymru #PortableAntiquitiesScheme
π Wildlife, plants, cats πΊ
Dyslexic, Dysgwr Cymraeg π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
kira @kirajm.bsky.social Autistic autism trainer & presenter | Autism & other interests
North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) @nassh1972.bsky.social Promote, stimulate, & encourage the study of #sporthistory; to support, stimulate & encourage scholarly writing & research; & to cooperate with local, national, & international orgs. Pub. of @journsporthist.bsky.social
https://www.nassh.org/
#NASSH2026
W-ICAD @w-icad.bsky.social W-β ICAD stands for the Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description. W-β ICAD provides museums with a tool to produce audio description based on co-created discussions between blind, partially-blind and sighted co-creators. https://w-icad.org/
Brendan McGeever @brendanmcgeever.bsky.social Co-Director, Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Author: 'Antisemitism & the Russian Revolution' (CUP 2019) and 'Britain in Fragments' with Satnam Virdee (MUP 2023)
2024-25 Cornell Visiting Professor, Swarthmore College
Erin Beeston (she/her) @erinbeeston.bsky.social Historian, writer, comedian, lived-experience autism researcher
Museum Education Roundtable @museumedrt.bsky.social Sharing, teaching, listening, shaping.
Museum Education Roundtable inspires innovative thinking for the field through engagement with scholarly and practice-based content explored in the Journal of Museum Education.
https://www.museumedu.org/
Isabelle Lawrence @isabellelawrence.bsky.social Curatorial and Collections Assistant (Science) at UCL. PhD exploring disability histories in the British Museum collection, the ethics of representation & the impact that collaborative practice has on the narratives we construct.
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on.
Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
University of Illinois Press @illinoispress.bsky.social University of Illinois Press / Publisher of scholarly and regional trade books and journals since 1918
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social UKDHHH is a network to allow those interested in Disabled, Neurodiverse, & D/deaf histories, from the ancient world to the modern era, to connect & collaborate. We are open to researchers, archivists, museum professionals, activists & everyone in-between.
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Parkes Institute @parkesinstitute.bsky.social We research, teach and raise awareness of relations between Jews and non-Jews, from antiquity to the present day. Based at @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Dr. Henriette Pleiger @jettepleiger.bsky.social Exhibition curator at www.bundeskunsthalle.de since 2002. Interdisciplinary exhibitions; art & science exhibitions; museum studies; science outreach; transdisciplinarity. PhD Museum Practice from Manchester University, UK, Institute for Cultural Practices.
Stanford Jewish Studies @stanfordtaube.bsky.social The Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford offers an interdisciplinary program for the study & understanding of Jewish cultures, literatures, languages, religion, politics & history.
Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UKβs national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! π https://historylab.plus/
Sophia Lambert @sophialambert100.bsky.social PhD student and budding historian of Anglo-Jewish history; Leeds history; cemeteries; social, urban and spatial history; writer; museums. LBU alumni.
Cat Mahoney @catmahoney.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Researching television, gender, collective memory, convergence and Dungeons & Dragons. Common or Garden Nerd.
Anoushka Alexander-Rose @anoushka-ar.bsky.social Postdoc on the visual representations of the Wandering Jew & other migratory myths @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & Winchester School of Art β¬β¬β¬| PhD on Vladimir Nabokov @parkesinstitute.bsky.social | comms for @biajs.bsky.social
Dover Museum & Bronze Age Boat Gallery @dovermuseum.bsky.social Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery is one of the oldest museums in Kent, founded in 1836. Free Entry.
Our blog page: https://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/Information-Resources/Blog/Blog-Home.aspx
Callum @callumwalkalong.bsky.social Word bloke and sword fella
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
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 π sarahwride.co.uk
Paralympic Heritage @paraheritage.bsky.social The National Paralympic Heritage Trust was established in July 2015 to protect and share British Paralympic Heritage.
https://www.paralympicheritage.org.uk/
Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social Actor β’ Writer β’ Voice Actor/Voice Over β’ Producer β’ Facilitator β’ Model β’ Poet β’
Fight Performer β’
Rose Bruford β’ FRSA β’
Rep: 23 Talent Management
they / them β’ London
https://linktr.ee/ardenfitzroy
https://app.spotlight.com/7655-7837-9839
Horus the Elder π
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¨π βΏ @horusofnekhen.bsky.social He/Him | Disabled archaeologist and curator specialising in the study of disability in antiquity. #BlackLivesMatter #FreePalestine π
Goalball UK @goalballuk.bsky.social Home of goalball, the sport for blind and partially sighted people, across the UK! Proud charity and National Governing Body.
Web and socials: https://linktr.ee/goalballuk
Spinal Injuries Association @spinalinjuries.bsky.social We are the expert, guiding voice for life after spinal cord injury, supporting 105,000 people with SCI and their families to live a fulfilled life in the UK https://linktr.ee/spinalinjuriesassociation
Irene Wise @irenejuliawise.bsky.social Artist, writer, educator, European. #FBPE #NHS
Be curious, be kind.
#art & info: irenejuliawise.com
#FRSA.
Imperial War Museum Fellow in #Holocaust Ed
#Theatre #Film #Art #books #cats #gardening #hedgehog #vegetarian
#StrongerTogether #RejoinEU
Bad Ancient/ Owen Rees @badancient.bsky.social Ancient Historian: Global history, ancient disability, veteran studies, etc. Also runs Bad Ancient: Fact-checking common claims about the ancient world.
Website: www.badancient.com
Newsletter: https://owenrees.substack.com/
Coreen McGuire @coreenanne.bsky.social Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
Maroula Perisanidi @maroulix.bsky.social Medieval and Byzantine History
Wellcome Trust Research Fellow She/her
Rob Ellis @re-histories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Ian Jenkins @ianjenks.bsky.social
Hannah Thompson @blindspothannah.bsky.social Partially blind academic (Royal Holloway); PI on AHRC Sensational Museum project; researcher in creative audio description, blindness gain; French literature and culture; trustee at Donmar Warehouse.
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.
@ijhs.bsky.social @ijhs.bsky.social
Getty @gettymuseum.bsky.social Bringing people together through art. Based in Los Angeles, working globally.
getty.edu
University of Illinois RBML @illinoisrbml.bsky.social Rare Book & Manuscript Library at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Main Library 346 | https://www.library.illinois.edu/rbx/
Follow us on Instagram (illinois_rbml) and Facebook (IllinoisRBML)!
Bradford District Museums and Galleries @bradfordmuseums.bsky.social Home to some of the best museums in Yorkshire, we are part of Bradford Metropolitan District Council - find out more via our
https://linktr.ee/bradfordmuseums
University of Reading Art Collection @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social β¦οΈ Sharing Art Collections held at the University of Reading
https://linktr.ee/uorartcollection
Snowdonia Slate Trail team @sstteam.bsky.social
Digital Scholarship at Oxford @discoxford.bsky.social An initiative to support and enhance humanities research through the use of innovative digital methods.
https://digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/home
@dhoxss.bsky.social @dhoxss.bsky.social
LCHS Museums @lchsmuseum.bsky.social the coolest nonprofit museum on Bluesky. physically in Utica, Illinois, mentally in the library of alexandria...
Strathnaver Museum @strathnaver-museum.bsky.social Fully accredited volunteer led museum on the North Coast 500. Explore 8,000 years of human occupation in north west Sutherland through the lens of the brutal Highland Clearances.
Sainsbury Centre @sainsburycentre.bsky.social "The UK's most radical museum" - The Guardian
β¨ Where art is alive
β What is the Meaning of Life?
π Pay if and what you can
π Lifeβs biggest questions
sainsburycentre.ac.uk
Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social The RCN (@rcn.org.uk) Library and Museum is Europeβs 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
Northumberland Archives @nlandarchives.bsky.social Accredited archives for the county of Northumberland and Diocese of Newcastle. Housed at Woodhorn, near Ashington, and at Berwick Library. northumberlandarchives.com
George Marshall Medical Museum @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social Small & mighty. Exploring changes in history of medicine in the Charles Hastings Education Centre. Open Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm. Mannequins, life and death, medical instruments. Worcester, UK. Closed Bank Holidays.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social πΌ πΊ World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
π Open every day 10amβ5pm π linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social Romans, Archaeology, Museums, Typos.
We're not a villa and we don't do Latin.
York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social ποΈAward-winning museum. ποΈ
We care for the collections of the Royal Dragoon Guards and the Royal Yorkshire Regiment, and we share our objects' stories.
Open 10am - 5pm Monday to Saturday.
Royal Air Force Museum @rafmuseum.bsky.social Welcome to the official Blue Sky Account for the RAF Museum, sharing the story of the Royal Air Force, past, present and future since 1972.
Locations: Colindale, North London and Shifnal, Shropshire next to RAF Cosford. Open daily from 10am. Entry Free.
Athelstan Museum @athelstanmuseum.bsky.social The Athelstan Museum, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
Capturing the History of Malmesbury, burial place of St Aldhelm and King Athelstan, birthplace of Thomas Hobbes, and much more...
The Egham Museum @theeghammuseum.bsky.social Follow to stay up to date with your local museum! Discover centuries of history and culture across Egham and the surrounding areaβ¦
JORVIK Viking Centre @jorvikviking.bsky.social π Follow us for Viking fun! π€ͺ
Book a visit to discover the REAL Vikings π₯
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
RAF Air Defence Radar Museum @rafadrm.bsky.social Award-winning, Norfolk Broads-based, volunteer-run museum of all things radar and air defence from 1941 onwards at the former RAF Neatishead base.
Open Easter-November, Tues-Sat, 10am-5pm.
Got a question on WW2/Cold War air defence? Send us a DM
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Vale & Downland Museum @valeanddownland.bsky.social We're a small local history museum in Wantage, Oxfordshire.
The birth place of King Alfred the Great!
Winner of the Green Growth Award 2026!
https://linktr.ee/valeanddownlandmuseum
Yorkshire Sculpture Park @yspsculpture.bsky.social Yorkshire Post Awards Tourist Attraction of the Year Award and Culture Award 2023
Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014
Book tickets online
ysp.org.uk
Wakefield Museums and Castles @wakefieldmuseums.bsky.social Wakefield Council Museums and Castles team. Follow us for news about our museums and castles across the district and stories from our collections.
@beamishmuseum.bsky.social @beamishmuseum.bsky.social
Elstree & Borehamwood Museum @ebwmuseumherts.bsky.social Our museum tells the story of Elstree and Borehamwood, through exhibitions, events and learning programmes. Supported by Hertsmere Borough Council. Become a Friend.
National Football Museum @nfmofficial.bsky.social The official account of England's national football museum. Open in Manchester every day, 10am - 5pm (last entry 4pm).