dr hardeep dhindsa (he/him) @hardeepsdhindsa.bsky.social art historian researching whiteness and greco-roman mythology in british history painting. curator thinking about victorian art and global connections. views my own. 🏳️🌈
https://hardeepsdhindsa.co.uk
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)
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
David O'Connell @daviduk.bsky.social 🍞⚘️
तत्त्वमसि
PhD | Trade Unionist | Global Labour University Alum | Occasional Jacobin Contributor | Writing on Employee Ownership, Supply Chain Industrial Relations, Philosophy
📍Germany based
https://global-labour-university.org/
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Rosa Berland @rosaberland.bsky.social Art historian, curator & professor. Newly appointed Director of Project Development, Documentary Film Fund. Honorary Director of The Edward Boccia Artist Trust. Artist books specialist. Love all things fine art, classical music & poetry related.
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Dr Lizzie Marx @lizziemarx.bsky.social Curator of Dutch and Flemish Art at the National Gallery of Ireland
Insta: Lizzie.S.Marx
Jennie Morgan @drmorgan.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Heritage. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. Norwegian forest cat 😂 and newly diagnosed coeliac posts 😭
Roman Vaughan-Williams @romansartwork.bsky.social London Based Artist/Curator
Royal Drawing School-Drawing year 2024
I make artworks to map the impasse, trying to escape but failing.
Website: https://romanvaughanwilliams.wordpress.com/recent-work/
Beckford's Tower @beckfordstower.bsky.social 120ft high Tower and #Museum in Bath. Built in 1826 for the use of one privileged man, now open to all.
https://beckfordstower.org.uk/
PSA Parliaments @psa-parliaments.bsky.social We are the Parliaments specialist group of the UK's Political Studies Association.
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news.
RCPSG Heritage @rcpsgheritage.bsky.social News, events and stories from the library, archive and museum at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/ #histmed #libraries #archives #museums
Side @sidegallery.bsky.social Est. in 1977: Side is dedicated to lens-based documentary. We are home to the UNESCO-listed AmberSide collection, showcasing film and documentary photography on working-class life from the North East and beyond.
Sidegallery.co.uk
LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
lse.ac.uk/library
Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Sexuality and Visual Culture, Loughborough University; 19th-20thC literature (esp. poetry), genders/sexualities (esp. queer femininities), portraiture, photography, fashion & celebrity. She/her.
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.
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
York Army Museum @yorkarmymuseum.bsky.social 🎖️Award-winning museum. 🎖️
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.
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
@royalarmouries.bsky.social @royalarmouries.bsky.social
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
Holburne Museum, Bath @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social Art gallery and Museum with a great cafe in beautiful Bath (also known as 'Lady Danbury's House' in Bridgerton)
RWA Art Gallery @rwabristol.bsky.social Art Gallery • Café • Shop • Family • Events • Art Classes
173 Annual Open Exhibition | 12 September 2026 - 3 January 2027
https://linktr.ee/RoyalWestofEnglandAcademy
Strawberry Hill House and Garden @strawbhillhouse.bsky.social Horace Walpole's 18th century ‘little Gothic castle’ in Twickenham.
Ikon Gallery @ikongallery.bsky.social Contemporary art gallery in Birmingham. Exhibitions, events, off-site projects. Open Tues - Sun 11am-5pm. Free, donations welcome.
Registered charity no.528892
https://www.ikon-gallery.org/
Printmakers of Scotland @printersofscotland.bsky.social A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking.
Festival of Printmaking 14-16 Aug 2026 University of Stirling.
www.printmakersofscotland.com
North East Museums @northeastmuseums.bsky.social Art and heritage at the heart of North East England. 12 museums and galleries for you to enjoy.
(Formerly known as Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums)
northeastmuseums.org.uk
Tullie Carlisle @tulliecarlisle.bsky.social Museum and Café Tullie open 7 days a week. Next exhibition Tick Tock Marvels: The Playful World of Automata opens 13 June.
Kathryn Havelock @kathrynhavelock.bsky.social Marketing & Comms Specialist @ Pallant House
ex V&A, IWM, British Museum, Design Museum, Wallace Collection
Trustee at Collections Trust & Estorick Collection
Studying art history at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social Run by artists, for artists.
Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland.
Penlee House Gallery & Museum @penleehousegallery.bsky.social Penlee House is Cornwall's only public Gallery, specialising in the Newlyn School artists. It is the artistic heart of West Cornwall's history, a space to relax, explore, and discover.
Open Monday - Saturday
Owned and operated by Penzance Council
Leeds University Library Galleries @lulgalleries.bsky.social Highlights from Cultural Collections & Galleries @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Free and open to all. Visit us at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Treasures of the Brotherton, and Brotherton Research Centre.
bit.ly/LULGWebsite
Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social Creative centre for printmaking and the visual arts in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh.
Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Six museums and historic sites across the city, creating life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled memories with you ✨
University of Reading Art Collection @unirdg-artcol.bsky.social ♦️ Sharing Art Collections held at the University of Reading
https://linktr.ee/uorartcollection
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Lou Le Joly @loulejoly.bsky.social 💻 Collections de presse et valorisation à @labnf.bsky.social
🔎 Artistes britanniques et suffragisme
TheCommonViewer @thecommonviewer.bsky.social Independent researcher.
British Art Groups 1830s-1930s.
Early 20th century Art & Visual Culture: London, Paris, Moscow & beyond.
Work in (slow) progress: "Nancy Cunard - An Uncommon Viewer".
Tandem Magazine @tandemmagazine.bsky.social A bi-monthly publication about art, old and new.
https://www.tandem-mag.com
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.
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
Centre for Visual Cultures, Royal Holloway @cvc-rhul.bsky.social We are the Centre for Visual Cultures, an interdisciplinary research centre based in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway University of London. Posting here about events, podcasts, projects, exhibitions and publications.
Royal College of Art @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social The world’s leading Art & Design University.
For information on our programmes and to apply visit http://rca.ac.uk
Instagram: @royalcollegeofart
UAL (University of the Arts London) @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social 6 Colleges 🏫
4 Institutions 📚
Because the world needs creativity 🎨🎭🖌️
Michael Petry @mapetry.bsky.social I am an artist, author, curator and Director of Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) London
www.michaelpetry.com
www.moca.london
Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk A politically independent monthly current affairs, culture & ideas magazine
Established 1995
Head to https://prospectmagazine.co.uk
Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social Illustrator & cartoonist | Guardian & Prospect (full scripts in alt text) | graphic novels | children’s books | WFC | My stuff: https://linktr.ee/stephencollinsart
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
Kate Mason @katejmason.bsky.social #CreativeNewham #artseducation #creativeindustries #art #craft #design #heritage #charityleadership / experienced #CharityCEO #Trustee & #NED / 30 yrs experience / a Mother
Sammi Lukic-Scott @slukicscott.bsky.social Art historian and curator
PhD in 19th c. History of Art (University of York)
linktr.ee/slukicscott
Public Statues and Sculpture Association @pssatweets.bsky.social Charity advancing understanding & appreciation of public statues & sculpture. Webinars, talks, books, statues of women & sculptors' lives databases, forthcoming sculpture residency & Marsh Awards for Public Sculpture, Conservation & Fountains. pssauk.org
Kevin KAL Kallaugher- Editorial cartoonist @kaltoons.bsky.social Editorial cartoonist who has inked over 11,000 for The Economist (46 years), the Baltimore Sun (35 years), Counterpoint and others. Loves the ancient mighty pen. Follow on Kaltoons.substack.com
ruth mackenzie @ruthmackenzie.bsky.social Loves art, culture, creative industries, politics, climate-action, equity, feminism, sunsets, London, Paris, Adelaide, Arts Minister @dcms @ukgovernment
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.
Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social Not just for curators! Social history? Museums? Join us!
No bio, no follow back.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shcg-conference-2025-curating-communities-tickets-1353581481649
Helen Antrobus @helenantro.bsky.social 📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once).
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
Museum-ID magazine @museumid.bsky.social For museum workers — magazine, conference and study days
#MuseumIdeas #FutureMuseum
Patrice R. Green @readingrenae.bsky.social Curator. Librarian. Public historian.
Minding y’all’s business via archival collections.
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
Aaron Manning @warwick-historian.bsky.social 👑Interpretation Manager at Historic Royal Palaces
🏰Historian of Warwick Castle and the House of Warwick
📚Director of Warwick Words History Festival
Follow for history, heritage, architecture, art, Warwick, Christmas
Instagram: warwick_historian
Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social The job board for arts, heritage and museums. Visit CultureJobs.org for the latest opportunities.
Insiders Outsiders @insidersoutsiders.bsky.social Celebrating Émigré Contributions to British Culture
https://linktr.ee/insidersoutsiders
John Hansard Gallery @johnhansardgallery.bsky.social Contemporary art gallery, part of @unisouthampton.bsky.social. Visit our curious, connected and inclusive world, inspired by art. Open Tuesday to Saturday, 11am–5pm. Free Entry
📍 142–144 Above Bar St, Southampton SO14 7DU
🔗 linktr.ee/JohnHansardGallery
Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social Art Historian
'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025)
'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021)
extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature
Joanne Coates @joannecoates.bsky.social visual artist. Farm worker. Glen’s 🐶 mam.
⭐️complex stories around class & rural
⭐️ Founder of Roova Arts
Based North | Contact: hello@joannecoates.co.Uk
https://linktr.ee/joannecoates
Dr Lauren Padgett @drlaurenpadgett.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Collections @ Bradford District Museums and Galleries ⚙🏺🖼 🏛 | PhD 🎓 | Historian 📜 | Proud Bradfordian 💪🐗 | Interested in local heritage; bygone times; people from the past; & dusty old things | 📌 🗺 Bradford, Yorkshire | Views my own.
Elginism @elginism.bsky.social Parthenon Sculptures (AKA Elgin Marbles) plus other cultural property disputes, museums, art law, archaeology, architecture & Greece.
Formerly London based, now in Sydney.
Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social London depicted by artists past and present.
“By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.” Samuel Johnson.
Curated by @jamadden.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/paintingsoflondon
Adrian Teal @tealcartoons.bsky.social Caricaturist for Spitting Image & other TV. Co-creator of award-winning kids' non-fic. Open for caricature commissions. I will never listen to your podcast. www.etsy.com/uk/shop/TealCartoons 🚫GenAI
Enquiries: Teal.Cartoons@yahoo.com
www.adrianteal.com
Museums Galleries Scotland @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk We're the national development body for Scotland's museum sector, supporting museums and galleries through funding, advocacy, advice, and events. 🏛️
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
Art Monthly @artmonthly.bsky.social Contemporary art magazine based in London; follow for the latest artist interviews, news, reviews and more.
Art Monthly – taking art apart since 1976
https://www.artmonthly.co.uk
Theo Weiss @theoborgvinweiss.bsky.social Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art @ Government Art Collection
Dulwich Picture Gallery @dulwichgallery.bsky.social Exhibitions | Collection | Events | Shop | Café | Gardens
The UK's first public gallery founded in 1817.
https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/
Sainsbury Centre @sainsburycentre.bsky.social "The UK's most radical museum" - The Guardian
✨ Where art is alive
❓ What is the Meaning of Life?
🎟 Pay if and what you can
💭 Life’s biggest questions
sainsburycentre.ac.uk
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
Dr Peter Knowles @medievalpete.bsky.social Head of Creative at Smartify. Giddily working with cultural sites around the world to share their stories.
Interests/obsessions include: 🏛️ museums 🖼️ art 👾 video games🐕 dogs🍸 gin martinis (Not necessarily in that order...)
Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
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
Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es Bienvenidos a la cuenta oficial del Museo Nacional del Prado en Bluesky. Abrimos una nueva ventana para compartir con quienes aman el arte nuestras colecciones, historias y el día a día del museo
https://www.museodelprado.es/
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Musée d'Orsay @museeorsay.bsky.social
The Bowes Museum @thebowesmuseum.bsky.social A stunning French-style museum in Barnard Castle with world-class art, fashion, design and 22 acres of parkland.
Yvonne Hardman @museums-yvonne.bsky.social Head of Collections & Programmes at Leeds Museums & Galleries. She/her. Views my own.
Image: Ciara Phillips in British Art Show 8 at Leeds Art Gallery.
Historians of British Art @hba-caa.bsky.social An affiliate society of the College Art Association (CAA) in North America, HBA promotes scholarship and other professional endeavors related to British art and architecture, broadly conceived in terms of place and time.
UK Parliament @ukparliament.parliament.uk Where the House of Commons and the House of Lords scrutinise the work of the Government. Learn more about Parliament, its people and our unique heritage.
linktr.ee/ukparliament