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
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org Celebrating everyday skills, stories & traditions passed down through generations in Ulster.
🧵 Putting the past in dialogue with the present — to shape the future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsterfolkmuseum.org
Pauline Mackay @paulinemackay.bsky.social Professor of Robert Burns Studies & Cultural Heritage, Scottish Literature, University of Glasgow. Director: Centre for Robert Burns Studies. Co-Director: Realities & Immersion Glasgow (RIG). Co-I Museums in the Metaverse (IUK).
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
The Partial Historians 🏺 @partialhistorians.bsky.social After surviving exposure at birth, these unconventional academics realised they were destined to found the greatest Ancient Roman History podcast! 🏛📯⚔️
📘‘Your Cheeky Guide to the Roman Empire’ is out now! https://linktr.ee/ThePartialHistorians
UCL Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science @ucllccos.bsky.social Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science (LCCOS) provides outstanding staff and services to research, education and enterprise at @ucl.ac.uk
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/lccos/library-culture-collections-and-open-science-lccos
Veysel Apaydin @veyselapaydin.bsky.social Associate Professor @ioelondon @ucl Heritage and Museum Anthropologist. Critical Heritage, Cultural Memory and Ecology
Sarah Barnes @barnesowl.bsky.social Head of Public Engagement (Operations) for UCL. @uclpe.bsky.social
#PublicEngagement, museums and general thoughts. Opinions and overthinking my own.
Nina Thompson @ninapthompson.bsky.social PhD student UCL Institute of Archaeology studying feelings & museums, especially medical museums. American in London, perpetual student and sometimes writer.
@carolinebressey.bsky.social @carolinebressey.bsky.social Historical and Cultural geographer at UCL, working on Black Historical Geographies, the multi-ethnic Victorian city, nineteenth century periodicals and diverse histories in museums and galleries.
Lucy Waitt @lucywaitt.bsky.social Interim Curator at UCL Art Museum. museums, arts, books. gardening and nature, She/her. Views my own.
Grant Museum of Zoology @uclgrantmuseum.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk’s Grant Museum of Zoology is one of the UK’s oldest natural history collections and home to some of the world’s rarest specimens.
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/ucl-grant-museum-zoology
Hannah Cornish @hannahcornish.bsky.social Curator at UCL Grant Museum of Zoology. Animals, museums, fibre arts, nerdery. She/her. Views my own.
Hannah Priest @shewolfmanc.bsky.social Freelance Wondermonger & Heritage Manager at the Pankhurst Centre. Author of a book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy.
My alter ego is Hannah Kate (North Manchester FM).
MAHSA Project @mahsa-project.bsky.social University of Cambridge: Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia Project
Documenting the endangered archaeology and heritage of South Asia and publishing this information in an Open Access Arches geospatial database.
https://linktr.ee/mahsaproject 
Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland @emcc-scotland.bsky.social The Equal Media & Culture Centre for Scotland (EMCC) is an intersectional feminist organisation advocating for equality for women in Scotland's media, arts and culture sectors.
🤝 @engenderscot.bsky.social
Visit our website: https://emcc.engender.org.
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
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Microform Heritage @microformheritage.bsky.social Expert digital services for preserving and archiving historical and valuable materials with care and precision.
Jack Head @jackhead95.bsky.social Social research - wider / social determinants of health, health inequalities, and housing
Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce
(I can't read private messages here.)
Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social Historian of 19th & 20th century Russia/Europe (mostly pre-1921); science fiction author & fan; lover of cats, dogs, chocolate, books, movies, television, baseball, soccer, ice hockey, cricket, Hawaii.
Follow my Substack! https://thomasbeck.substack.com
J🍉 @jjgeh.bsky.social Profesor de Geografía e Historia en la educación pública.
Valencià a Canàries.
CA-EN-ES-IT-PT
Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Regina C.L.🌹🌿 @asolitaryrose.bsky.social Writer, classicist, historian, museum educator. Lover of historical (and not historical) women & goddesses, war elephants, and pretty flowers 🏳️🌈✡️
MHC ‘19, Brandeis ‘22, U of Glasgow ‘26
📍 Glasgow, Scotland
https://linktr.ee/asolitaryrose
Amgueddfa Sir Henry Jones Museum @sirhenryjones.bsky.social The museum is the childhood home of Sir Henry Jones (1852-1922) who, from humble origins, became an eminent Professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University and a major influence on the education system in Wales. We are based in Llangernyw North Wales.
Ruairidh Duncan @inxcetus.bsky.social Whaleontology PhD candidate (Monash University/Melbourne Museum) and palaeoartist (of sorts) from Port Glasgow.
🖖🐋🏎️🦕
Okay at some things. (he/him)
Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social ‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London)
Histories of Enlightenment Travel
https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
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
Marissa @marissatrimble.bsky.social 📍Glasgow, Scotland
🖼️ museums + archives + built heritage
🌿 sustainability
Nicole Smith @drnicolesmith.bsky.social Lecturer and researcher, University of Glasgow, Scotland. Archaeology, heritage, creativity, picturebooks, digital stuff, museums, place-based learning. 🖼️📚🏞️🌲🌿🎨👾
Miranda Cichy @mirazc.bsky.social PhD (still) telling bird extinction stories. Environmental Humanities / Social Sciences Researcher. Dreaming wildly between the box hedges. [she/her]
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
Siobhan McAlister @siobhanmc74.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Queens University Belfast. Associate Editor Journal of Youth Studies #youth #youth justice #conflict #gender
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk’s Petrie Museum is a time capsule of ancient Egypt where its 80,000 objects tell the story of 7,000 years along the Nile.
Find out more: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-collections/petrie-museum-egyptian-and-sudanese-archaeology
Hayley Wright @hayleywright.bsky.social Partying like it's 1799... Researcher of poverty, crime and disease in historic London and proud trustee of @hist_towns. On the lookout for PhD collab./funding.
Whitchurch Hospital Historical Society @whitchurchhospital.bsky.social Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴
1908-2016
Used as a military hospital during both World Wars.
Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital.
Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social Author, historian, and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast. FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION forthcoming from Putnam. Rep: Helm Literary.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
@burghhouse1704.bsky.social @burghhouse1704.bsky.social Grade I listed Queen Anne building. Independent charity, art gallery, events and wedding venue in Hampstead. Free entry!
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.
Graham Palmer @grahampalmer.bsky.social A writer, attempting to make sense.
(All you have to do is cross out the wrong words - Mark Twain)
Find me at: grahampalmer.co.uk 
Helen Kemp @drhelenkemp.bsky.social Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
Historyonics @historyonics.bsky.social From Maisonettes to Museums and Mansions, we help home owners and institutions protect their property and historic collections from attack by insect pests.
www.historyonics.com
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
Olga Tsapina @otsapina.bsky.social Manuscripts curator. Creator of superior typos ("bother-in-law"). Dog person who respects cats.
Mainely Genealogy @mainelygenealogy.bsky.social Mainely Genealogy ~ with occasional cat and book sightings. Focused on New England and U.K./Ireland research but will to go wherever records lead.
Miasma @itsthemiasma.eurosky.social Student of early modern Britain, folklorist, person of no rank. Reposting = commonplacing. Public Frenemy #1. Getter of mixed reviews. She. Firmly on Team Footnote.
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.
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
Patrick Duffy @pduffy1.bsky.social Historian interested in O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1824-44. Former @researchireland.ie Scholar, @historytcd.bsky.social. pduffy1@tcd.ie
orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-1089
irishhistorians.ie/members/patrick-barry-duffy/
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Catriona Mackie @cmackie.bsky.social Lecturer in History & Heritage at University College Isle of Man. Doesn't fit neatly into disciplinary boxes.
Dr Jérémy Filet @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social Lecturing @manmetuni.bsky.social
Grand Tourist myself and Jacobite scholar.
FrHist/ SFHEA / PGCert
"The Jacobites and the Grand Tour" now out with Manchester University Press:
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179920/
🏳️🌈 & good theatre!
Bexley Archives @bexleyarchives.bsky.social Bexley Local Studies and Archive Centre holds historic materials for the London Borough of Bexley
Penny Duggan @pennyduggan.bsky.social Archives | Local History | Family History
Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland
Archives Officer @BexleyArchives
Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society
http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
Sam Agbamu @samagbamu.bsky.social Latin literature and Roman history. Problematically keen on the humanist tradition. he/him
Pete Maddux @marmutia.bsky.social Big fan of history, French aircraft, and toasted sandwiches
Kirsty Parsons @museum-owl.bsky.social Curator at Charles Dickens Museum. Striving to improve access to museum collections. Views my own.
Nate Hendley @natehendley.bsky.social Toronto-based writer and author of several true-crime and history books. My latest book, Atrocity on the Atlantic, recounts the torpedoing of a Canadian hospital ship in WW1.
Books: https://tinyurl.com/4rvtkp7d
My website: www.natehendley.ca
THE ANOINTED ATHEIST @theanointedatheist.bsky.social Welcome to my little corner of heaven. This is where I write about politics and religion with a dose of humor. But if you find my posts offensive, just turn the other cheek. Have a blessed day!
real-shtpen @real-shtpen.bsky.social Comrade in so called Australia
Checking in on bsky sporadically
She/they
MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments project funded by Arcadia.
https://maeasam.org
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
THE LAST DAYS OF TRUMP (A Liberal Fantasy for the Stage) @trumplastdays.bsky.social I am the best play. There is no better play. Not even Hamlet by that loser Shakespeare!
Next up: London ONE NIGHT ONLY Sep 1st
Tickets on sale NOW! Follow link.
It's going to be INCREDIBLE!
👉👉👉 https://linktr.ee/trumplastdays
lynnechester cathedral 🎶🗽 @lynnh1.bsky.social 💙🇺🇲. Believes in climate change, environmental and social justice. DEI advocate. Mental health warrior. Blue baby, just 💙. Married. Owned by critters.
Costco Guitarbuckle @millardfillmore.bsky.social I know I’m unlovable.
You don’t have to tell me.
Mercedes Cerón @mercedesceron.bsky.social Art Historian, teaching at Universidad de Salamanca. Goya, antiquaries, collecting, books, prints
https://produccioncientifica.usal.es/investigadores/157360/detalle?lang=en
https://link.springer.com/book/9783032068392
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
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 \\
@opalamy.bsky.social @opalamy.bsky.social 
Museum of Bath Architecture @batharchitecture.bsky.social A unique museum exploring the architecture, development and built heritage of Bath. A Bath Preservation Trust #museum.
https://museumofbatharchitecture.org.uk/
Underground Writing @undergroundinwa.bsky.social [Bluesky debut: May 20, 2025] Underground Writing is a literature-based creative writing program serving migrant, incarcerated, recovery, and other at-need communities in Washington through literacy and personal transformation. www.undergroundwriting.org
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/
No.1 Royal Crescent @no1royalcrescent.bsky.social Experience fashionable English 18th century living at the first house to be built in the Royal Crescent, Bath. Also known as the Featherington residence in Bridgerton ✒
https://no1royalcrescent.org.uk/
#Museum
America Really Shouldn't Exist @a-r-s-e.bsky.social Hating America doesn't mean loving Xi or Putin. But my country (England) is not a vassal state of either Russia or China, so I direct my hatred toward the appropriate power structure: that of US Imperialism, which is FULLY responsible for the Gaza Genocide
Mojo Rising @ursa56.bsky.social Retired RN•Living in Chicago after a lifetime inTennessee💙🚫DM🚫CRYPTO🚫MAGA🚫BOTS🚫PORN🚫
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Junie Juniper @juniej.bsky.social Theory: There must have been an escape of toxic gas causing greed to rise as IQs drop sharply worldwide.
Seeking people who held their breath long enough to stay sane & decent!
No DMs pls.
W-ICAD @w-icad.bsky.social W-ICAD stands for the Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description. W-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/
Brian Creek, Photographer @briancreekphoto.bsky.social Award Winning Photographer. Naturalist/ Writer/ Instructor/ Guide/ Environmentalist/ Eclectic Pagan/ Iconoclast.
Yellowstone, Tetons, The World
> Visit website for Prints & Bespoke Yellowstone Photo Safaris! 🦬 www.briancreek.photography
Natural History Museum, London @nhm-london.bsky.social We’re the museum looking deeper into the Earth’s past to shape a new future where both people and planet thrive.
Protecting the planet, it’s in our nature. 🌍
Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social Leader: Changemaker: Ally: Facilitator: Action Learning Facilitator: Mentor: Trainer: Cheerleader: #Museums : #Heritage : #Culture : Realising the potential of others: Keep safe, keep well, keep learning: She/Her
GLAM Cares @glamcares.bsky.social A care and support network for people who work with communities in galleries, libraries, archives and museums.
GEM (Group for Education in Museums) @gem.org.uk GEM, we connect and learn together.
gem.org.uk
Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space UK-based Museum Learning Consultant & Maths Communicator
📖 Author of The Mathematicians' Library: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16778/9781836004851
🌐 TeaKayB.mathsy.space
🕸️ @TeaKayB.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy
#MathsInMuseums #MuseumEd #MathsJam
Rachel Moss @particip8tion.bsky.social Freelancer. 20 years working in Museums & galleries. Passionate about Arts Education, evaluation & progression routes into the sector. Pronouns: She/her
Marian Gwyn @mariangwyn.bsky.social Heritage consultant specialising in the contested past, training museum staff, and the modern history of Wales (1485 to modern day). 
Shannen Johnson @shannenjjohnson.bsky.social Museum Education, Culture, Arts, Heritage. Cats, Wine, Mum to Lyra.
HilaryMcGowan @hilarymcgowan.bsky.social Cultural Consultant, specialist in heritage governance & leadership; www.hilarymcgowan.co.uk Patron RSC, Trustee @theees.bsky.social; loves cats, Grant, Shakespeare, theatre, ballet. New Leadership book with Piotr Bienkowski just out! lives in Somerset
Caroline C. @carolinerose.bsky.social Archivist. Mental Health First Aider. Works @ TNA. Hiker. Dog guardian. Would always rather be up a mountain. She/her