Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Scotland's Printing Heritage @printscot.bsky.social Promotes interest in the history of the printing industry, working with institutions across Scotland to ensure that printing archives and artefacts are not lost www.scottishprintarchive.org/
NTS-Archaeology @nts-archaeology.bsky.social Exploring Scotland’s past through archaeology at National Trust for Scotland sites. Follow for updates on digs, discoveries, and history! #ForTheLoveOfScotland. Where we are and what we're doing.
Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social Run by artists, for artists.
Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Victoria Hayward @writervh.bsky.social Writer / Science Fiction / Fantasy / Birds / 🍸
Warhammer 40K Darktide / Black Library Author / Lancaster University Creative Writing Scholarship PhD Candidate 🌈
Principal Investigator: Fair Realms Project (BA/ACE/AHRC funded)
All views her own, she/her
Lorna Mitchell @lmitch.bsky.social Edinburgh-based librarian 📚
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
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
@alqleeds.bsky.social @alqleeds.bsky.social Old art teacher - brand new author. Still delivering the best Development programmes to art teachers, through the University of Leeds and The Paul Mellon Centre for studies in British Art
Duglas BMX Bandits @bmxbanditsduglas.bsky.social Duglas T Stewart top pop singer and romantic fool.
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage & culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate ethno & dislike cultural nationalism Servant to a Patterdale,
Dr Julie Holder @julieh80.bsky.social Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
Sign up to our newsletter www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter
Wardie Bay Residents Association @wardie-bay.bsky.social Residents association for the 100+ householders along Lower Granton Road overlooking Wardie Bay.
National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Stories from Scotland's national collections.
Explore our website: nms.ac.uk
Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social Fragments of life in messages from old postcards, curated by Tom Jackson. BOOK: http://amzn.to/34rIDhp POD: http://Apple.co/2xNqQ8D AGENT: http://morgangreencreatives.com
@laura-serafina.bsky.social @laura-serafina.bsky.social
Caitlin @caitlinoknox.bsky.social Museum Studies graduate | JMS PhD scholar researching Scottish museums and galleries and the B.L.M movement
Emily Randall @emilyran.bsky.social @_eegahh_ on insta
Louisianian artist in Scotland
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
linktr.ee/IAmLoudPro
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Heritage Volunteering Group @heritagevols.bsky.social A membership organisaiton, helping you unlock the power of volunteering. Sign up at heritagevolunteeringgroup.org.uk
Dig It! @digitscotland.bsky.social Discover Scotland’s stories with ground-breaking archaeology news and events that are open to everyone | A @socantscot.bsky.social project | #HESsupported | #ScotArchStrat | Visit https://www.digitscotland.com/
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
FolkloreThursday @folklorethursday.bsky.social #FolkloreThursday is a hashtag day for sharing folklore facts, and a website filled with articles! Founded by @deedeechainey.bsky.social & @willowwinsham.bsky.social.
Gemma McLean-Carr @gemmamcarr.bsky.social PhD Student looking at Smells, Odours and Sinophobia in 19th and 20th Century Britain 👃 University of Edinburgh | Convenor of AHGN (UoE) | Museum Supervisor at Royal Scots Dragoon Museum, Edinburgh Castle 🖼
Steph Allan @eolasinntinn.bsky.social Psychosis Postdoctoral Researcher and Occasional Educator at the University of Glasgow. Currently working on developing support for fears of recurrence.
Likes cats, hates injustice. Here to learn. She / they.
https://psychosisresearch.info/
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social Artist, Scientist, Woodland Ecologist, Statistician, Historian & former Research Scholar at the RIA | Art from Dublin, Ireland 🌈 He/Him | Sé/é
Buy my work here: https://robertbohan.etsy.com
Rodge Glass @rodgeglass.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Cheerleader at Strathclyde Uni. Author of 8 books inc Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs & Joshua in the Sky (Taproot 2024). Big fan of praise. (Giving & receiving) www.rodgeglassauthor.com https://linktr.e
Sorcha Dallas @sorchadallas.bsky.social Avid mother, reader, runner. Custodian of agrayarchive.bsky.social Curatorial practice centred on care.
The Alasdair Gray Archive @agrayarchive.bsky.social Scottish Charity SC052417 caring for Gray’s studio & visual/literary material. Education & New Commissions. Inclusive Community. Custodian sorchadallas.bsky.social
Isla H. Macfarlane @bibliophisla.bsky.social ☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
Karl Mercer @karlantmercer.bsky.social Curating Visibility Fellow at Dover Museum.
Deal Man fan account.
Curator, writer, poet and musician.
Actually autistic disability activist.
North Lanarkshire Libraries @librariesnl.bsky.social Library service in North Lanarkshire. News, events and of course books.
Wiebke McGhee @wiebkemcghee.bsky.social Archivist, North Lanarkshire - history, nature, literature - auch auf Deutsch
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
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present.
https://asls.org.uk
Past Glasgow @pastglasgow.co.uk Glasgow then and now
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
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
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
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
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. 🏛️
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Scottish Football Museum @scotfootballmuseum.bsky.social Official account of the Scottish Football Museum & Hampden Park Stadium Tour.
Open 7 days a week - book now to experience Scottish football like never before! #scottishfootballmuseum
www.scottishfootballmuseum.org.uk
Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social Anthropology and archaeology collections from world cultures past and present.
https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk
Heritage Network @heritagenetwork.bsky.social The Heritage Network (formerly Heritage Trust Network) is the UK's umbrella body for organisations that are rescuing, restoring and re-using historic buildings, structures and spaces.
https://heritagetrustnetwork.org.uk
Scottish Co-operative Discovery Centre @scotco-ophistory.bsky.social Project based in the old bake house in West Calder to create a new home for the history of the Scottish Co-operative Movement.
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Scottish Industrial Heritage Society @scotindustria.bsky.social SIHS promotes the heritage of Scottish industry, past and present. Founded in 1984 by combining the Scottish Society for the Preservation of Historical Machinery and the Scottish Society for Industrial Archaeology. www.sihs.co.uk/
Scottish Transport & Industrial Collections & Knowledge Network @sticknetwork.bsky.social Discover Scotland’s transport and industry collections, both in museums and private collections. Membership of STICK is open to anyone. Website: stickssn.org
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
OurStory Scotland @ourstoryscotland.bsky.social Registered charity collecting, archiving and presenting the lived experiences of Scotland’s LGBTQ+ community since 2001
@beamishmuseum.bsky.social @beamishmuseum.bsky.social
Black Country Living Museum @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social An award-winning open-air museum bringing 250 years of Black Country history to life. https://linktr.ee/bclivingmuseum
Museums Computer Group @ukmcg.bsky.social The MCG is for technologists, curators, educators, marketers and more in and around museums #musetech
Justin Parkes @justparkes.bsky.social Museum curator | travel | industrial history | art | photography | views mine
Nina Baker @ninabake2.bsky.social Independent engineering historian: women in engineering, motoring, aviation, construction.
Ex-MN. Ex-Deacon Hammermen of Glasgow. OBE.
https://cramptonmoorhousepublishing.blogspot.com/
https://womenengineerssite.wordpress.com
The Wiener Holocaust Library @wienerlibrary.bsky.social The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
comrade ella 🧚🏻♀️ @marzipanlord.bsky.social metropolitan sylph
Joe Vaughan @joevaughan.net writer, podcaster, social media lead at The Museum of English Rural Life
https://joevaughan.net
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
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Old Edinburgh Club @oldedinburghclub.bsky.social The Old Edinburgh Club (OEC) is the city’s local history society, concerned with all aspects of the capital’s history and development.
Jacinta Mallon @jacintamallon.bsky.social 🏡 historian, generally thinking about home/emotion/war
🏰 currently doing collections management at the Keep Military Museum
🎓 PhD from UKC, also previously IHR
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
Emma McCombie @emmamccombie.bsky.social Deputy Head of Collection - Art Collection, University of Stirling
Likes: Leith, beer and being in the sea
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social 🏭 Transnational partnership project examining the politics, historical roots and lived experiences of deindustrialization.
Based at COHDS: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/
Website: https://deindustrialization.org/
NikNak @niknak87.bsky.social All about equality, diversity and inclusion - museums and history fan - cakes and baking enthusiast - mother of plants - climate justice supporter - good doggo cuddler - art and craft practitioner - all round geek - books deserve to be read!
Dr Gary Willis @garywenvhist.bsky.social Focus: environmental impact of warfare. Academic/Environmental Rep, National Archives' User Advisory Group; writing book on the military-industrial enclosure of Britain's countryside in the 2nd World War for Bloomsbury. Accepts commissions. Views my own.
AtGF1988: After the Garden Festival @glasgowgardenfestival.org Recording the form, story and legacy of the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival with LambLex, @GordonBarr.scot & @urbanprehistorian.bsky.social
(Pic J McDougall, CC 2.0)
http://www.glasgowgardenfestival.org
NORTHERN RESIDENT ARTIST @northresidentart.bsky.social The official northern artist in residence since 2020.
Current Lancashire artist of the year
Commissions start at €7.65
#Art #NorthernArt #Artist #GaryNorth #Watercolour #Drawing #LancashireArtistOfTheYear
The Architectural Heritage Fund @archhfund.org.uk Helping communities across the UK to reuse and regenerate historic buildings, with grants, loans and advice.
https://linktr.ee/ArchHFund
Jackie Lee @jackieandartemis.bsky.social Heritage Interpretation is my thing especially if it's done in costume. And even written a book on it. Chair of AHI She/her Glasgow Girl. www.artemisscotland.com
Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social Socialist, antifascist, writer in various places, geriatric millennial, GQ's 9th Worst Dressed Man in 2016. He/him. YouTube channel http://bit.ly/33iARb3 🏳️🌈
SistaRay @sista-ray.bildung.social.ap.brid.gy Reading, teaching, parenting, taking pictures.
Occasional Germansplaining.
#PondLife
#RewildingBresgespark
#OnePlaceOneYear2023
#OnePlaceOneYear2024 […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://bildung.social/@sista_ray, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
B.J./Mayim Pnina @killearnan.bsky.social Librarian/genealogist. Cats; human to Scout and Flora. Knits. Sews. Swims. Runs on lots and lots of tea. Biblioholic. ADHD/fibromyalgia. One place/name studies. Side interests: linguistics, archaeology. Happily settled in Maine, but mentally in Scotland.
James 🏴🦖 @thattalljacobite.bsky.social Part-time fossil hunter 🦕
Part-time history buff ⚔️
(Opinions my own)
Works at a fossil museum in Scotland - forever looking for prehistoric fish 🎣
www.instagram.com/that_tall_jacobite/
Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot Overlooked tales of Edinburgh, Leith & Scottish local history. Expect the unexpected: people, buildings, transport, maps & occasional attempts to be funny. Stories also published at https://threadinburgh.scot 🐦 ex-Cocteautriplets
Felicity Inkpen (fliss) @felicityinkpen.bsky.social Optimist. Interested in everything. Asks awkward questions.
Artist and nerd. Surprisingly tall.
Felicityinkpen.co.uk
Instagram.com/felicityinkpen
https://substack.com/@felicityinkpen
Tullia Fraser @tfraser.bsky.social AHRC-CDA PhD researcher—Chinese art in Scotland’s museums, provenance research, histories of collections.
Mixed HK🇭🇰+Scottish🏴混血兒.
Views and opinions she/hers.
Peter Davies @pdavies.bsky.social German Studies, U of Edinburgh. Translation History, Holocaust testimony, archives, interpreters at Holocaust trials. Audio drama and the Holocaust. Occasional Scottish political nonsense. He/him
Dr Michelle Walker (/Moffat) @moffski.bsky.social Historian of war & society in WWII UK, veteran disability.
Proud NZer 🇳🇿
Researcher @Manchester Met Uni
FRHistS
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02684527.2025.2573607
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)
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social Science & Medicine Historian @ Lancaster University. Author of Aesthetic Science: Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London http://tinyurl.com/yy4nhqn7
Natasha Serne @natashaserne.bsky.social Head of Library and Archives at the RDS. Birdwatcher and twitter migrant seeking connections old and new.