#HigherEducationPostcard @hepostcard.bsky.social Images of postcards of universities, colleges, and all things higher education, posted by @hbsj.bsky.social, from my collection
UK based, mostly but not only UK postcards
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
Hartley Special Collections @hartleyspecialc.bsky.social southampton.ac.uk/archives
Based in the University of Southampton Hartley Library.
With around 7 million manuscript items and 50,000 printed books, the Special Collections provide a resource of remarkable richness and depth.
The New Chaucer Society @newchaucersociety.bsky.social The NCS is a scholarly community committed to fostering research and interest in the age of Chaucer broadly speaking. We welcome any and all members to join our community! https://newchaucersociety.org/
Go Jauntly: walks & nature trails @gojauntly.bsky.social Your app encyclopaedia of local walks.
🚶♀️the best walks and wheels
🌳 explore urban nature
📲 download the free app
👟 enjoy daily adventures
🕸️ www.gojauntly.com
Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social Creative centre for printmaking and the visual arts in the Fountainbridge area of Edinburgh.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Gethin Matthews @ww1cymru-wales.bsky.social All views my own / dyma fy syniadau fy hunan
Posts about Wales and the Great War; commemoration of WW1, WW2 and other conflicts
Welsh culture & society; Welsh politics; environmental concerns at the national level for Wales and the global level
Bilingual
Summit County Libraries @summitlibraries.bsky.social #1 Most Followed Library in the USA!
https://summitcountylibraries.org/
Located in beautiful Summit County, Colorado.
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.
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
HMS Tern Living Museum @hmstern61.bsky.social We are creating a Living Museum at HMS Tern in Orkney. The team of volunteers and paid staff are recreating the look, smell and feel of a training airfield in World War II on Orkney. The site is open to the public, see our website for opening times.
Bank of England Research @boeresearch.bsky.social Research papers, #bankunderground posts, publications and news from Bank of England researchers. Staff opinion and analysis, not necessarily official BoE views. https://linktr.ee/boeresearch
Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social archaeology, history, environment, quirky stuff -- love London, arts, travel -- writer, organiser, modest activist/stirrer 🏺
Bob MacLean @bobmaclean.bsky.social Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
House of Commons @houseofcommons.parliament.uk Where elected MPs represent the public, legislate, and scrutinise the Government. Find out more about their work and how Parliament happens.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social UK project to raise awareness and interest in plants, highlighting species interactions (plants and inverts, galls, fungi etc) & encouraging plant recording during the Big Meadow Search (1st June-31st Aug). All welcome #nature #plants bigmeadowsearch.co.uk
Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI
When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone.
https://theslowai.substack.com/
Phelim Kelly, London @phelimkellycom.bsky.social 😍: 🇪🇺 HowToEnjoy.eu
✈️ ✍️ 📷 TRAVEL writer linktr.ee/PhelimKellyCom
📚💻🎬 PUBLICIST-producer-actor imdb.com/name/nm5117722/
💂♀️ LONDON's Bluesky PACK (90+) bsky.app/starter-pack/phelimkellycom.bsky.social/3lr44hozfo225
Cumbria Europe Faroe Hungary Ireland Spain
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Peter Torres Fremlin @desibility.bsky.social Covering world news with a disability lens. I love languages, questions and places I've lived 🇬🇧🇧🇷🇧🇩🇪🇬
Writing Disability Debrief: https://www.disabilitydebrief.org/signup
The Devil's Porridge Museum @devilsporridge.bsky.social We tell the incredible WW1 story of HM Factory Gretna, the greatest munitions factory on Earth. Eastriggs and Gretna Heritage Group SCIO.
SCN SC031616
Tom Johnson @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social historian of fifteenth-century England | writing a book about a fishing village | https://tomjohnson.carrd.co/
English Faculty Library, Cambridge @eflcam.bsky.social Sorting books and knowing things. Library supporting the teaching and research for the @cam-english-fac.bsky.social and @department-asnc.bsky.social
Part of: @theul.bsky.social
See more: linktr.ee/eflcam
Vacation Hours:
Mon-Fri: 9.30am to 5pm
Anthony Painter @anthonypainter.bsky.social Policy. Political economy. Increasing bewilderment.
"The Three Economies" Substack here: https://open.substack.com/pub/anthonypainter
#ynwa
shakespeareseminar@proton.me @shakespeareseminar.bsky.social Inspired by a conversation outside the globe with Andrew Jarvis in 2012, our seminars aim to reclaim the context of Shakespeare's work by getting practitioners and academics working together to make the context accessible, instead of intimidating.
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social Dr Hana Videen (she/her), author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH & THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. Sharing the Old English Word of the Day since 2013.
linktr.ee/wordhord
STCV. The Bibliography of the Hand Press Book in Flanders @stcvbe.bsky.social STCV is an OA database collecting bibliographical descriptions of early modern books printed in Flanders (Belgium)|Service of Vlaamse Erfgoedbibliotheken vzw|Posts by Heleen Wyffels & team
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social President of Magdalen College, Oxford. Barrister. Speaking only for myself.
Erskine @erskinechilders.bsky.social
Father, husband, son, truthseeker. Family historian. Yes, he was my great-grandad and grandad.
https://linktr.ee/erskinechilders
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
Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1
Jenny Symien @symienjennifer.bsky.social Retired head of MFL: regular traveller to France. Ardent European, wildlife, environment, music, Genealogist, reader, cook, wife, mother, grandmother, friend.
Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
https://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Free UK Genealogy (FreeBMD • FreeREG • FreeCEN) @freeukgenealogy.org.uk Free UK Genealogy is a charity providing free access to UK historical genealogy records for family historians worldwide.
Publishers of FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN.
Volunteer-powered | Open access | Genealogy for everyone.
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
Cambridge Assistant Library Staff Forum @alsfcam.bsky.social 📚 ALSF is back for 2026!
Join us September 24th. Ticket details to follow.
https://linktr.ee/ALSFcam
Literature Cambridge @litcamb.bsky.social We offer high-quality lectures and courses on English literature and Classics, online and in person. We study Homer, Shakespeare, George Eliot, Tennyson, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, Zora Neale Hurston, George Orwell, Iris Murdoch, and many others.
Owen Garling @ojgarling.bsky.social Knowledge Transfer Facilitator @bennettschool.cam.ac.uk. Bridging research & policy on place-based policy, social infrastructure, regional growth, & devolution. #PolicySky #AcademicSky
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social Retired scientist. Niche natural history interests 🌱🦅🦋🪲🪨 Cambridge UK but often in Suffolk 📷: Suffolk Breckland, TL45Y =tetrad (2x2km square) round Cherry Hinton.
❤️ 🇪🇺 🇳🇱 & Berlin
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
Owen Massey @oweninoxford.bsky.social /'əʊɪn 'mæsiː/
librarian・pedestrian・own views・they/them・Net Zero・Vision Zero・pro-trans・pro-trains・not my king・no gods・no masters・no borders・no statues・no heroes・❄️
Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP!
Luis Iturriaga @neurathic.bsky.social Historian of science and technology in the early modern (Iberian) world. Previously HPS Mphil (Cambridge) and BA (UKing's, Halifax).
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com Palliative care doctor 👩🏻⚕ Author 📚 Winner: 2025 Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 🫀 Founder: Hospice Ukraine 🇺🇦 Rep: Clare Alexander at Aitken Alexander 📝
www.drrachelclarke.com
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.virtualtreasury.ie
An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
The Parker Library @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social Special collections library at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
https://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library
Parker Library On the Web - our medieval and early modern MSS digitised
https://parker.stanford.edu/parker
Cambridge Digital Library @camdiglib.bsky.social Explore Cambridge Digital Library:
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Jerwood Library @jerwoodlibrary.bsky.social Libraries of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
Rhona Watson @seawaves.bsky.social Librarian and naturalist. Interested in all wildlife, particularly in lepidoptera and biological recording. Cambridge Natural History Society.
University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Queens' Old Library, Cambridge @queenslibcam.bsky.social Founded in 1448, we’re the oldest library in Cambridge, UK. Discover our historic collection of 30,000 rare books, medieval manuscripts and more.
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Christ's College Cambridge @christscollegecam.bsky.social One of the 31 Colleges of the University of Cambridge
www.christs.cam.ac.uk
Ruth Ahnert @ruthahnert.bsky.social Digital humanist; literary historian; early modernist; collaborator; feminist; parent; FEA. Deputy Director of Cambridge Digital Humanities. She/her
Will Beharrell @willbeharrell.bsky.social 📚 Librarian at the Linnean Society, the world’s oldest learned society devoted to natural history.
🌿 Secretary of the Society for the History of Natural History (SHNH).
🏳️🌈 Proud Trustee of Newbury Pride.
Letters of Note @lettersofnote.com Professional letter nerd since 2009. Buy the books (https://books.lettersofnote.com), read the newsletter (https://news.lettersofnote.com/), come to the live shows (https://www.youtube.com/@LettersLive). Or don't. It's your choice.
Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social I just really like History | DPhil in History from Magdalen College, Oxford | Medieval women and universities | Colloquium Secretary at London Medieval Society | she/her
Paralympic Heritage @paraheritage.bsky.social The National Paralympic Heritage Trust exists to protect and share stories and collections relating to British Paralympic Heritage.
https://paralympicheritage.org.uk/
Kate North @curatorkate.bsky.social Heritage & conservation professional & enthusiast, usually found exploring old places 😃
Curator of Properties for English Heritage, & freelance heritage consultant.
Studying p/t for PhD in lime finishes.
Ulrike Graßnick @ulrikegrassnick.bsky.social #TeamSchwimmen
#medievalsky
Kanzlerin der Universität Trier | hier privat unterwegs.
Chancellor of Trier University | views are my own.
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
LSHTM Library, Archive & Open Research Services @lshtm-laors.bsky.social Library, Archive & Open Research Services @LSHTM.bsky.social - supporting discovery, preserving history, and promoting open access & open science, including LSHTM Press. Sharing collections, insights & updates from our community.
The Library of Trinity College Dublin @tcdlibrary.bsky.social The Library of Trinity College Dublin is a major research library, supporting learning, teaching and research across the University. Follow us here for TCD Library updates, activities, events & a spotlight on our fabulous Research Collections.
The Frame Blog @theframeblog.bsky.social The Frame Blog is an online magazine for articles, interviews and reviews about antique picture frames.
https://theframeblog.com/
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Alan Akeroyd @alanakeroyd.bsky.social Archivist. Interests include archive theory, store location systems and the history of local government in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Archives Manager for Cambridgeshire County Council, UK. Views expressed are my own.
Cambridge Diary @cambridgediary.bsky.social Cambridge photographer behind 'A Cambridge Diary' - 5,000 continuous daily pictures at www.cambridgediary.co.uk.
Published by https://cambridgebooks.co.uk
Alpine Club Library @alpineclublib.bsky.social The Alpine Club Library - devoted to mountains, mountaineering and the history of both. Part of @alpineclub.bsky.social
Open to visitors & club members on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays.
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
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Alison Hicks @alisonhicks0.bsky.social Associate Professor, Library and Information Studies @ucldis. Editor in Chief @jinfolit. information literacy researcher | european | she/hers/ella
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Sedgwick Museum @sedgwickmuseum.bsky.social Come on in and explore 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history, from meteorites and mountains to dinosaurs and diamonds. Free, no booking required
sedgwickmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Saw this on a map @stuartackland.bsky.social From crazy cartouches, wonderful beasts or general carto-frippery, a site that highlights the non-map part of maps! From the Map team at the Bodleian Library
Bayeux Tapestry @bayeuxtapestry.bsky.social The Bayeux Tapestry is located at the Bayeux Museum in Normandy.
The tapestry will be displayed at The British Museum September 2026 to July 2027.
Quay Arts @quayarts.bsky.social The Isle of Wight's Leading Art Gallery and venue for Live Events.
www.quayarts.org
www.artrabbit.com/organisations/quay-arts
www.linktr.ee/QuayArts
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
https://linktr.ee/senatehouselibrary
Fry Art Gallery @fryartgallery.bsky.social Home to an important collection of work by 20th and 21st century artists who lived and worked in North West Essex. Find us in Saffron Walden and online at: www.fryartgallery.org
Royston Cave @roystoncave.bsky.social Royston Cave is man-made and decorated with religious wall carvings. No records of its age or purpose exist. Discover the mystery beneath Royston.
www.roystoncave.co.uk
Gilbert White's House & Gardens @gilbertwhites.bsky.social Home to the 18th Century Naturalist and the Oates Collections. Museum, Garden, Cafe, Brewery & Tap room.
Modern Art Oxford @modernartoxford.bsky.social One of the UK’s leading contemporary art spaces. We celebrate the importance of participation in the arts, offering inspiring creative opportunities.
Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org A place to inspire wonder, spark creativity, and explore our shared humanity.
🌍 Art, nature, and history to make sense of the past, present & future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulstermuseum.org
Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social We are part of Oxfordshire County Council - we're the archive and local studies for the county, including photographic collections
Website - http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshirehistory
Catalogue - https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/
Freud Museum London @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud
Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social Run by artists, for artists.
Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland.
Jane Austen’s House @janeaustenshouse.bsky.social The inspiring Hampshire cottage where Jane Austen lived and wrote her globally beloved novels.
Dr James Finch @jamesfinch64.bsky.social Senior Curator (Collections) at the Royal Academy of Arts and c19/20 art historian. Posts mostly relating to the RA and its collections. 🖼📚🎨
Theodor Dunkelgrün @theodunkelgrun.bsky.social Historian | Asst Prof @uantwerpen.be | PhD UChicago | postdocs @cam.ac.uk | Early Modern Europe & the Mediterranean, the History of Scholarship, of the Book, and of the Jews | Hagenaar | FRHistS
I come from merchants in textile, and work on text and exile
Christopher Hilton @chilton-bb.bsky.social Head of Archive & Library at The Red House, http://brittenpearsarts.org. Archives, music, metadata; side orders of architecture, landscape history & electronic noise.