Aysha 🔜 Gen Con @ayshaufarah.bsky.social Locus and Bafta-nominated writer and narrative designer. life is strange | hiveswap | magic the gathering | pathologic | amplitudes anthology
formerly a narrative lead at deck nine games. co-host of Worker's Lit
jeremy kaplowitz @jeremykaplowitz.com nyc "comedian"
plz follow @quorators.bsky.social ty
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Ray Clemens @rayclemens.bsky.social Medievalist: retired curator of early books and manuscripts (Beinecke Library, Yale University), Latin Paleography, Middle English Paleography, Book History, Hagiography.
Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social Medievalist and librarian, interested in all aspects of manuscript culture.
Peter Kidd @mssprovenance.bsky.social Oxford-based researcher of medieval manuscripts; formerly of the Bodleian and the BL; especially interested in provenance and illumination; currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval and renaissance manuscripts of University College, Oxford.
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
The Luigi Case @luigicasefiles.bsky.social
Larisa Grollemond @larisag.bsky.social Associate Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Getty Museum, UPenn art history PhD; major nerd. Opinions, especially the spicy ones, my own.
Joanna Barker @barkerjoannam.bsky.social
Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social Host of all podcasts. Independent Muckraker. Hollywood’s Ultimate Insider.
The post is probably a joke.
Centre de recherche du château de Versailles @crcversailles.bsky.social Le GIP - Centre de recherche du château de Versailles a pour objet la #recherche et la #formation sur les lieux et expressions du pouvoir au château Versailles et en Europe
Site web, portail de ressources, réseaux sociaux ▶ https://linktr.ee/crcversailles
Dr Mary Bateman @mareganlefay.bsky.social Medievalist. Pre modern lit & culture across borders, especially all things Arthurian. FRHistS, FHEA. Folkie. 🎵 Mareganlefay.bsky.social
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
met wife in illegal nba stream chat @stefanheck.bsky.social wassup
@gooffkings.bsky.social
@blockedparty.bsky.social
@ihatethisteam.bsky.social
twitch.tv/gooffkings
patreon.com/blockedparty
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social Writer, storyteller. Nebula, Hugo, Ignyte finalist. Work in
@strangehorizons, @Slate, @LightspeedMag etc. http://shivramdas.net. 2006 Time Magazine Person of the Year
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social This space would like me to place a short sentence here, but short sentences are contrary to my nature.
Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com.
Gareth Dennis @garethdennis.uk Rail engineer and writer. Hosts @railnatter.uk and @trainsatlantic.uk. HOW THE RAILWAYS WILL FIX THE FUTURE (https://bit.ly/HowTheRailways) available everywhere. He/him.
Sanitary Naptime @sanitarynaptime.bsky.social Forever miserable Co-host of @praxiscast.bsky.social, PASOK accelerationist, tank appreciator, noted gameshow producer, he/him
Wooferendum Black Bloc @trufflehog.bsky.social co-host and research centre of @praxiscast, big mountain enthusiast, resident fancylad. Listen early, listen often.
Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley
"visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal
💚🇨🇦
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
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.
Dr Owen Emmerson @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Historian & Assistant Curator at Hever Castle. Consultant: #WolfHall (BBC, 2024). Broadcaster: Boleyns: A Scandalous Family (BBC); Blood, Sex, & Royalty (Netflix).
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com Welcoming media and government (and everyone else!) to Bluesky.
Formerly of The Atlantic, Boston Review.
jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social they + she
art historian poet
Fil Am messing with Renaissance practices
U Delaware + Philly
co-founder of the journal Selva
https://linktr.ee/henkaipantomime for books and pubs
Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth
Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social Writer, reporter, and floofy dog owner. Previously at ARTnews, Business Insider, Quartz and other outlets. Based in Toronto.
Emily Wood @ebwood.bsky.social Assistant Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum || ABD in art history || art & architecture of early modern Spain & Italy || she/her || heads up: there will be Red Sox posts
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
K R @kringelberg.bsky.social they/them, Art Historian
I care a lot (too much?)
Not repping any institution
gregorg @greg.org Artist, writer, publisher of greg dot org: the making of since 2001, "a [Cady] Noland obsessive" —T Mag [avatar: Édouard Manet Facsimile Object (M1), Minnay; banner: Derek Jarman's Blue]
Peter Huestis @peterhuestis.bsky.social "Well-groomed" –Washingtonian Magazine
Michele Bogart @urbaninsideout.bsky.social xProf: art history, advertising, things NYC. Swimmer, civic cultural advocacy; statue, parks, and advert buff. Author Sculpture in Gotham (Reaktion Books, 2018).
Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com Art critic, filmmaker, communicator.
https://kevinbuist.com/
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London.
jeremymillar.org
Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015
Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social Art historian. New book The Invention of British Art, out now.
Erik Inglis @allthebeset.bsky.social warning signs, bikes and buzzards. and train songs. no such thing as negative space.
Diane Tucker @theshymuseumgoer.com Writer/producer prev seen on NATGEO, HIST, DISC, MBN, HuffPo.
Also writing about great works of art and the deeply human stories they tell at TheShyMuseumgoer.com
Hrag Vartanian @hrag.bsky.social Art Critic Futurist 🧬 Editor-at-large, cofounder of @Hyperallergic.com 🗽 Aleppo born, Toronto raised, Brooklyn based w/ @veken.bsky.social
I tweet about art and politics because art doesn't exist in a vacuum.
Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com The best art publication on Bluesky 🌞 with daily art news and reviews. hyperallergic.com
AHAA @ahaaamericanart.bsky.social The Association of Historians of American Art, along with its e-journal Panorama, provides a scholarly forum for the study of American art and culture.
Amy Werbel @awerbel.bsky.social Professor researching censorship and freedom of expression in art, law, and culture. Author of books: Lust on Trial, Lessons from China, and Thomas Eakins. Love my growing family, colleagues, and students here in NYC and around the world.
Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. US material & visual culture, museum studies, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects. shirleywajda.com
Aruna D’Souza @arunadsouza.bsky.social Writer and critic, mostly contemporary art, sometimes food, always politics. New York Times and Hyperallergic, among other places. I’m surprisingly sweet. Live in NYC, originally from 🇨🇦
Jim Wald @citizenwald.bsky.social Historian, ex-Hampshire College, Amherst MA
Europe C18-20, book history, historic preservation
Past service: SHARP sharpweb.org, Massachusetts Center for Book https://www.massbook.org/
Co-editor, Routledge History of Antisemitism
http://tiny.cc/pb7xzz
Joanna Gardner-Huggett @jogardnerhugg.bsky.social Feminist art historian in Chicago
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Elizabeth @afroartnerd.bsky.social Art historian and HBCU Professor | Author: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic | elizabethchamilton.com
Header image: Alison Saar. Tobacco, Indigo, Sugar, Cotton, and Rice (2018)
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social "Elegante y muy cabrona."
I labor at the word factory for Alta, NYRB, The Atlantic, Fresh Air, KCRW, NYT and others.
https://c-monster.org
https://linktr.ee/Cmonstah
Steven Nelson @snelsonus.bsky.social Executive Director, Sam Gilliam Foundation; UCLA professor emeritus; and left-handed art historian who sees lots of shiny objects. Opinions expressed here are my own.
Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social Celebrating women artists, past & present. Visit http://artherstory.net! Instagram, artherstorynotes. Online store at https://artherstory.net/shop/
Dr. Antje Gamble @drantjegamble.bsky.social Art Historian: Italian, Sculptural, & Exhibition Modernisms (Fascism & Cold War in 🇮🇹&🇺🇸) // full Prof in KY // Working Class Academic // President of the Italian Art Society // she/her
drantjegamble.com
Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social Curator of (very old) curious books, prints on fabric, functional ephemera (newberry.org), Director of a pop-up book society (movablebooksociety.org). History of art, science, decorative food, pirates. Where's the WHIMSY? 🚫AI
Mostly Chicago. She/her
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Nate Bethea @inthesedeserts.bsky.social before you get mad at me and reply to my posts, please bear in mind that I don't live in America. I am part of @trashfuture.bsky.social @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social and I am 1/2 of secondhomesband.com
Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social Medhist=medieval + medical history (https://hcommons.org/members/mhgreen2/). Focusing on Global Health. Open-access: The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta, https://works.hcommons.org/records/n3h76-6dg78.
Dr. Verena Krebs @krebsverena.bsky.social Medieval Historian. North-East Africa & Ethiopia. German. Professor. GIF lover, Sci-fi fan. Getting better at remembering this app exists. More info: VerenaKrebs.com.
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Maggie Fritz-Morkin @emeffem.bsky.social Medievalist/ italianist/ tennist, associate prof UNC-Chapel Hill, Boccaccio, prose and other cons. Up with the stars
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Karen Smyth @karensmyth.bsky.social Hon. Professor in Medieval & Early Modern Literature at UEA. Dabbling in literary criticism, critical and applied heritage studies, creative adaptations of the pre-modern, creative-critical writing methods, Creative Health research & autoethnography.
Medievalist.net @medievalists.bsky.social Hello from Medievalists.net, the leading online resource for the Middle Ages - check out our website at www.medievalists.net
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Peter Ellis @almostconverge.kozterulethasznalatienge.day your friendly local yorkshireman from transylvania
Alex West @ajw87.bsky.social Gone for now. But here are some links:
Old site: https://indomedieval.medium.com/
New site: https://medium.com/@WestsWorld he/him
Book: https://brill.com/display/title/68202
Chloe "KLO-E" Maveal @cuntersthompson.bsky.social Co-host of the official 2000 AD comics podcast // publisher of the Trash Humper zine // pro pervert // abstract artist // a real humdinger
https://www.patreon.com/cw/TrashHumper
Caroline Smrstik @smrstik.bsky.social Writer, copy editor, musician, equestrian, amateur linguist, professional foreigner. Card-carrying Swiss Person.
Sridhar Ramesh @radishharmers.bsky.social Born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in rural Missouri. Adopted the pen name "Sridhar Ramesh" from riverboat slang.
Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social Correspondent, Vanity Fair
Signal: @mjnblack.09
Work: https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
medieval marginalia @medievalmarginalia.com corpus bones!
Dot Porter @leoba.bsky.social Medievalist, digital humanist, and wannabe booklicker.
I'm here to post memes and yell about manuscripts.
See also @sims-mss.bsky.social
I speak for myself and not for my employer
Anne Thériault @annetheriault.bsky.social Putting the hag in hagiographer. Formerly @anne_theriault on Twitter. Anne.m.theriault@gmail.com
Karl Steel @karlsteel.bsky.social Brooklyn College / Grad Center Medievalist. Posthumanism. How to Make a Human (Ohio State UP 2011); How Not to Make a Human (Minnesota UP 2019). Currently working on The Irrational Animal.
website is medievalkarl.com
KellyAnn Fitzpatrick @kellyann.bsky.social here for tech, cats, and dragons. she/her. all views my own.
Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social Medievalist | Cricket tragic | Dog lover | Ex-scientist | Luddite | Occasional tractor driver | Living on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung land | Long COVID sucks | She/her
Lisa Fagin Davis @lisafdavis.bsky.social Medievalist, Paleographer, Codicologist, Voynichologist; Executive Director, @medievalacademy.bsky.social; Brown Univ. and Yale Univ. alum; PhD; Red Sox fan
Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social America’s only art crime professor, studying theft, repatriation, and general museum shenanigans. Forthcoming book: The Styrofoam Mummy (Norton), on fraud and forgery on the market for ancient treasures. She/her; queer.
www.artcrimeprof.com
Chasing Aphrodite @chasingaphrodite.bsky.social Researching the illicit antiquities trade for two decades as an investigative reporter, author, blogger, tweeter, investigator, founder @MuseumofLoot and now...skeeter?
https://ChasingAphrodite.com/
https://MuseumofLoot.org/
https://AchillesResearch.org/
5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social A podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. patreon.com/fivefourpod
Your unproblematic #3 fave @swolecialism.bsky.social i lost the ability to read in a freak clean and jerk accident in 1989. please be gentle. he/him
Podcasting is Praxis @praxiscast.bsky.social hello i am a podcast :)
https://praxiscast.podbean.com/
https://www.patreon.com/praxiscast/
Dr Abigail Fine @onceuponafine.bsky.social PhD in Comp Lit, MA in History. Fairy tales, material culture, (fast) fashion, gender, children’s literature. Special interest in fairy godmothers and American Girl brand.
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social dire homosexual 🏳️🌈 - ONCE UPON A TOME [2022] 📚 - ISABELLA NAGG AND THE POT OF BASIL [2025] 🪴- THE DEVIL AND MRS GOOCH [2026] 😈 - One Page RPGS 🎲 - 🏠 Manchester, UK
https://linktr.ee/oliverdarkshire
kilgore trout @kilgoretrout.bsky.social turnip shepherd & bad person
lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com rotatingsandwiches.com / batting around podcast
Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social