CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
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Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social Literature Prof at the University of Edinburgh, fan of Prog rock and Nottingham Forest.
Dylan Reid @dylanreid.bsky.social City man: Spacing magazine editor, walking, messy urbanism, Renaissance urban history. Also freelance editor. dylanreid.ca
Will Rossiter @satyrane.bsky.social Professor at UEA. Medievalist, Early Modernist, Italianist. Views are very much not those of my employer, by some measure. Inglese italianato. 
Daphne Harries @daphneharries.bsky.social 🏴🇦🇺 | she/her | English student @ Oxford | ‘Three Strikes’, my poetry pamphlet around Llŷn y Fan Fach, out now with Lemon Jelly Press (2026) | this is my sort-of digitial creative and academic journal :)
@reisingerart.bsky.social @reisingerart.bsky.social Our paintings are the result of teamwork. Henriëtte envisions the concepts. She composes and chooses from a multitude of ideas the most potential ones. Roman paints, this technique enables him to paint realistically and in great detail.
Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social I’ve written three novels in my eight book Tudor Queens series, and I’m currently editing Catherine Howard. No direct messages. Universal link: https://linktr.ee/Nicola_Harris_Author #KU #hisfic #wivesofhenryviii
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@tudorroseteacher.bsky.social @tudorroseteacher.bsky.social Former Cambridge PGCE student, now a History ECT in London.
Enjoyer of coffee, cats and the early modern period.
Will ramble about local and material history if given an opportunity.
Currently reading: 'Weimar'- Katja Hoyer
@ProfShakespeare @profshakespeare.bsky.social Professor Emerita, University of Reading; Founder & Director https://henslowe-alleyn.org.uk; Shakespeare, drama, theatre history, literature and manuscripts expert.
Sara Sheridan @sarasheridan.bsky.social Writer. Mapped Scotland according to women's history. Also writes novels. Over-enthusiastic. She/her. YES. Insta:@sarasheridanwriter X: @sarasheridan All links: https://linktr.ee/sarasheridanwriter
Tamara Atkin @tamarajatkin.bsky.social Medieval and early modern English literature at Queen’s College, Oxford. Mostly old books. All opinions my own. She/her
Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities, doing monastically economic things
Dr Lizzie Swarbrick 🇵🇸 @lizzieswarbrick.bsky.social Art & Architectural Historian - Research Manager for the Research in Action on Church Heritage project @churchheritage.bsky.social - Freelance research and writing about Scottish Medieval and Early Modern - She/her
Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
Darren S. Layne @funkyplaid.bsky.social Historian of 18th-century Scotland focused on Jacobite Studies and Digital History. Curator of JDB1745. Chair, Jacobite Studies Trust. PhD via University of St Andrews. In love with a swan and two cats. Currently watching the leaves in Portland, OR.
Jamie Kelly @sisyphussmile.bsky.social Aberdonian in Glasgow | Public Sector Bureaucrat | Historian of 18th century Scotland | PhD on SSPCK
Recently dusted off the keyboard ✍🏻⌨️
Zotero fangirl.
`` dp by @electricgraayhem.bsky.social (March 2026 ❤️)
Russell Newton @drrussellnewton.bsky.social Historian of Christianity (esp. early modern Scottish Protestantism) | Co-editor 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘏𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 (EUP) | Co-editor 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘭𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥 (Boydell, 2021)
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk- K Elizabeth Ewan @kiritekatawa.bsky.social Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed
New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social University maths teacher (failed academic); very amateur local history; slightly worse photography. Not always very neurotypical. Uaireannan beagan Gàidhlig cuideachd. Same handle on the elephant site. Web: http://www.dominie.scot.
Craig @craig1802.bsky.social Ordinary bloke living in SW Scotland
Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social Archaeologist; #Roman Frontiers; Scottish History and #Archaeology at National Museums Scotland @ntlmuseumsscotland
Morag @glasgowgenealogy.bsky.social Professional genealogist from Glasgow, trading as www.glasgowgenealogy.co.uk. Specialising in Scottish research but interested in all aspects of genealogy/family history. Also into baking, knitting, sewing, geocaching, travel.
John Stone @john-stone.bsky.social Diasporic book history; English print in 18th-century Spain; translation history; Joni Mitchell; baking.
English Studies, Universitat de Barcelona.
https://ub.academia.edu/JohnStone
#18thC
#bookhistory
Mark Rustbucket @markrustbucket.bsky.social My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC
Pamela Ahern @pamelaahern.bsky.social Historian of 18c Scotland, PhD Candidate at UDelaware. Mary Stuart, historiography, memory, Hume, Jacobitism.
Linsey Hunter @linseyhunter.bsky.social Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own. No DMs - haven’t done age verification. Sorry.
Rich Welsh @rdwglass.bsky.social Stained Glass Studio. Restoration / Repair / Beginners Classes. Etched Glass. RDW Glass. Dennistoun. Glasgow. Scotland. 🏴
RDW Glass - Rich Welsh, Keira Mclean, Caireen Stuart.
www.stainedglass.scot
Roslyn Potter @roslynpotter.bsky.social Research Associate at Newcastle University 📖 early modern manuscripts, women’s writing and song culture 📚 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻
https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@wendytm.bsky.social @wendytm.bsky.social Family and local historian. One Place Study: Graveney and Goodnestone. One Name Study: Rigden. Specialist subjects: Faversham Workhouse, 19th century riots. Border Reivers. 
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/
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
Dr Sheilagh Quaile @sheilaghquaile.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Adjunct), University of Prince Edward Island.
Historian of art, design, and material culture in Britain and empire.
Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
Dr. Katie McCullough @kmccullo.bsky.social Historian of modern Scottish history/Atlantic world and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Settler on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories.
Principal consultant at https://yarrowhistoricalconsulting.ca/
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg
Claire M Elder @claireelder.bsky.social @SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | please send me any fermesses you spot! $ | dogs!
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/
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
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
Phil Stobie @thebadasshistorian.bsky.social Not a real badass or historian
Monument Manager Tantallon Castle
Film/TV battle scene veteran
Outlander chameleon S1-6
I love quirky tv, unusual films, catchy choruses, history, nature
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
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.
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)
Geraldine (ginorgym) @ginorgym.bsky.social 🎓part time Post grad (MPhil Res) Scottish Literature, University Of Glasgow, looking at the work of Edwin Muir, specifically Poor Tom.
Powered by coffee ☕️
📚avid reader & self confessed Scottish Literature geek
👵Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
Timothy C. Baker @timothycbaker.bsky.social Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
DrMacLeodCartoons @macltoons.bsky.social Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2’, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary ’Evansville at War.’ He/Him🏳️🌈
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Robbie Tree @rdtree.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
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
Rob McInroy @mcinrob.bsky.social Scottish writer
Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot, Barvick Falls
Maggie Walls Wood forthcoming autumn 2026
Fiction with a social conscience
www.robmcinroy.co.uk
Emily Hay @emilyhay.bsky.social PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 She/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
Paul Malgrati @paulmalgrati.bsky.social Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
Walk Talk Tours @walktalktours.bsky.social Discovering Glasgow, it’s hidden Countryside, Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating the City
www.walktalktours.uk
Insta: @walktalktours1
T/X @tours_talk
Jonathan Brown @sartoriusdoctor.bsky.social Lecturer in Scots Private Law. Legal scholar/historian/theorist and teacher of Scots/Roman law.
A fun fellow, in spite of every single word that has preceded this sentence.
Dr Robyne Calvert @robyneerica.bsky.social Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her
https://robynecalvert.com/
Dr Miriam A. Bibby @drmabibby.bsky.social Horses, history, books, growing vegetables, reading, writing, editing, broadcasting. And a bit of sitting about. Equine historian and champion of the Galloway Nag. Co-editor Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History. 
Dr Matthew Lee @matthewlee88.bsky.social Did a PhD on Scotland and Atlantic slavery. Working in the third sector. Attempting to escape from the Twitter hellscape
DrBree Robertson-Kirkland @breerob-kirk.bsky.social Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
Prof Deborah Simonton @deborahsimonton.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
Bruce Mann @diggermann.bsky.social Regional Archaeologist for Moray, Aberdeenshire, Angus & Aberdeen City Councils, Scotland. Happiest when exploring, helping to manage our heritage as best I can! All views my own.
John Duncan @jockduncan.bsky.social Better known as Newbattle at War on 'Twitter' Grandad, amateur filmmaker 🎥 and military historian. Author of Midlothian at War, With a Pick and Rifle and co-author of Only Remembered books. My 4th book Midlothian in WW2, I'm proud to say is now out.
Cameron Maclean @cmaclean.bsky.social SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
Aaron Sheridan @acsheridan.bsky.social History PhD at the University of Strathclyde researching social history of council housing in Edinburgh, 1919 - 1999 | Living Rent, Govan and Ibrox branch
The Urban Historian- Stephen Clancy @theurbanhistorian.bsky.social See the history around you...
One-time archaeologist now delivering Heritage Walks, Talks, History Cafes & Genealogy services in Paisley, Renfrewshire 🏴
www.theurbanhistorian.co.uk
www.renfrewshireancestors.uk
www.discoverrenfrewshireheritage.com
@mrsmck.bsky.social @mrsmck.bsky.social Dog walking, cross stitching history lover studying Medieval and early modern Scottish history through University of Dundee and the Open University.
Phil Dodds @phildodds.bsky.social Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds 
Dr Nik Mac🦘🎾🎭🎶📚☕️🏴🇦🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🌻 @nikmacdonald.bsky.social A fan of ginger beer; walking on the beach; thinly spread vegemite on hot, buttered toast; real coffee; writing; theatre; early modern Scottish history; sunsets that leave me breathless; warm hearths on wintry days and warm hearts most every day; cheese.
Ross Crawford @rosscrawford.bsky.social Scriever/writer in Scots/English. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024. PhD in Scottish History from University of Glasgow. Works in heritage. He/him. Views ma ain.
https://linktr.ee/rrmcrawford
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
Amy Baker @antoninewallblues.bsky.social Archaeologist lurking in a museum. PhD: Understanding craft and social practice on the Antonine Wall. Roman Scotland & northern frontiers, social theories of technology, antiquarians.
Hexham/Falkirk
Books, beer, bikes, barrows, Burnley, bad weather.
Brian Mackie @brianmackie.bsky.social WW2 Clyde history. HMCS Niobe / Royal Canadian Navy. Greenock Morton / In the Community. Slava Ukraini!
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.
Mill of Foresterhill @millofforesterhill.bsky.social History & Scottish Heritage, Meal Mills, Reliability Engineering
Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
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
Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher @ucc.ie • Scottish Romanticism, the Novel, Reading / Book History • IASSL Membership Sec • AFHEA • She/her
Chelsea Reutcke, PhD @creutcke.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies, Univ of Utah
She/Her
Clandestine Catholic print in the Restoration!
Timothy Slonosky @timothyslonosky.bsky.social Humanities, Dawson College. Reformation and Sixteenth Century history, Scotland and elsewhere. Occasional poster, views my own of course.
Allan Burnett @allanburnett.bsky.social Academic historian. Apocalyptic imaginaries. Media history. Media and war. Pedagogical and political uses of war memory. Linköping LiU. Author of history books for children & dad of 3.
Alasdair @timetravellingscot.bsky.social Museums, Scottish History and Archaeology. Bagpiper, reenactor, heritage-worker and out of practice historian
Craig Gallagher @kreggallagher.bsky.social Scottish émigré. Assistant Professor of History at Colby-Sawyer College. Early America, Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World.
Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
Helen Leighton-Rose @helenleightonrose.bsky.social Once a biologist, always an artist.
PhD Candidate - Historian of c18th Scottish women & immoral crime in the Borders, East Lothian and Edinburgh.
Photographer, CAA-certified drone pilot
Daniel MacLean @danielmaclean.bsky.social Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
Bob Marshall @bobmarshall.co.uk Architectural illustrator / 3D reconstruction artist. Edinburgh, Scotland. #Blender3D Pro. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
The Megalithic Portal Ancient Sites & Stones @megalithic.bsky.social Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more.
Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Human prehistory🦣 to🏺1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨
Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk
More: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
@nativetreeplanter.bsky.social @nativetreeplanter.bsky.social Growing and planting native trees. Local history research for Dalgety Heritage Trail. 
Ellie Conway @bloominell.bsky.social Social/health/history researcher+academic, recording lives of working class girls who died in Industrial Schools. Feminist. Socialist. Writer. Knitter. Glaswegian. Survivor of chronic illness and acute disease. Always tired, yet miraculously still here.
Steven Robb @stevenrobb.bsky.social Heritage watchdog. Interests in architecture, Edinburgh, inter-war social housing and obscure late Jacobite and nonjuring history. All views my own.
Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
Dr Ailsa Boyd @ailsaboyd.bsky.social Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
Frederick Douglass in Scotland @fd-scotland.bsky.social Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/the-book/ Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive
Dr Leith Davis @drleith.bsky.social English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
Sandy Stevenson @tourscotland.bsky.social Tour Guide and videographer https://youtube.com/tourscotland and you are welcome to visit and subscribe
My Blog https://tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/
On Pinterest https://uk.pinterest.com/tourofscotland
All photographs and videos are mine
Dr Andrew Demetrius @demetrius-art.bsky.social Public art and New Towns. Scotland and elsewhere.
Musica Scotica @musicascotica.bsky.social Musica Scotica promotes the scholarly study and performance of Scottish music and musicians.
https://musicascotica.scot/
M. J. Grant @campaignbear.bsky.social Musicologist and rights-based ranter—
Follow me for both, and banter.
Last time I checked I still had a job at the University of Edinburgh.
Antiracist — Antifascist — Ask me about history — Never Again Is Now
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David Worthington @davidworthington.bsky.social Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
Lexy @lexythugcat.bsky.social 
Scottish Church History Society @scotchurchhist.bsky.social Society promoting interest in Scottish church history. 'Scottish Church History' journal published by EUP. Join our mailing list - eepurl.com/duJJc5
https://www.scottishchurchhistory.org/