Hampshire Archives Trust @harchivestrust.bsky.social Supporting the preservation & conservation of #Hampshire related archives. Raising awareness of the county's rich & diverse documented past. Join us!
https://hampshirearchivestrust.co.uk/
Heather Nowlan @ftsgenealogy.bsky.social Heather Nowlan - Professional Genealogist at Family Tree Searchers; Former Vice Chair - Board of Trustees for Society of Genealogists; AGRA Associate
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/
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
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
Richard Waite @waiterich.bsky.social Director, Agriculture Initiatives, World Resources Institute. Working with colleagues around the world to create a sustainable food future. DC-based. Own views.
Stromness Museum @stromnessmuseum.bsky.social Orkney's museum of Natural and Maritime History, founded in 1837. "A treasure trove of objects from across the centuries..."
Philip K. Allan - Author @philipkallan.bsky.social Author of Naval Fiction, Writer and Speaker on Naval History
Visit my website to learn more at http://philipkallan.com
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
Zélia Rafael @zelie84.bsky.social Doctoral candidate in English at the University of Iceland.
Whitman, Race, Cancel Culture. American History and Culture.
Poetry lover, horror fan, reading into the myths we create.
https://theinfamousacademic.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7126-368X
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Holburne Museum, Bath @holburnemuseumbath.bsky.social Art gallery and Museum with a great cafe in beautiful Bath (also known as 'Lady Danbury's House' in Bridgerton)
curious-archivist.bsky.social @curious-archivist.bsky.social Man of Kent and retired archivist currently exiled in the West Midlands. Humanist.
Hertfordshire @hertfordshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Hertfordshire #Herts, UK
Essex @essex.bsky.social The original (& still the best) #Essex Bluesky account run by the Essex community - Latest news & views independent of any local authority or news outlet
#EssexAndProud
Finbarre Snarey @finbarre.com Arts and culture journalist. Host of Tarot Interviews and Tarot DMs. Founder of the British Tarot Archive. Likes people with a sense of wonder. Featured in The Guardian, Real Simple, Homes & Gardens & Daily Mirror.
https://finbar.re
Ruth @ruth-louise.bsky.social Arts & crafts, upcycling, music, plants, walks, old stuff. Living for coffee, books and whimsey 📚 ☕️ 🌱 Interested in linguistics. Multilingual. Worcs.
MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social Scholarly books from University Presses. News and info from across academia. Part of the Mare Nostrum Group. Based in Harrogate, UK.
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Jenni Adams @jenniad.bsky.social Open research person | feminist | writer
Loves books and cats
MORPHSS @morphss.bsky.social Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences.
Research project funded by AHRC, Wellcome Trust & Research England.
Co-delivered by Cambridge, Sheffield, Coventry & Southampton universities.
https://morphss.hcommons.org/
C🌻🏳️🌈 @caseyactual.bsky.social Student, scientist in training, solarpunk. I like making art/music and writing things. No war. (They/them)
I have friends everywhere.
UKSG @uksg.bsky.social UKSG members include scholarly and academic publishers and libraries, along with companies and people who supply them with technology and services. We bring these different organisations together to share experiences and work together on shared challenges.
Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social Historian (19th century gender & crime) teacher (HOD History NPQSL) food & wine. CCF Royal Navy. Reader. Italy is life. Support teams with bird mascots 🏉🦆 ⚽️🦉🏏🦅. Made in Sheffield. Married a Californian. Now an Essex girl. Wednesday til I die. She/Her
Dr Hazel Perry @historyhaze1.bsky.social Historian of trades union councils. Other interests folklore, prehistory, archaeology, cats. Also researching 84 Sanitary Section (WWI). East Anglia,UK. #skystorian ❤️
Kate Kane @katekane1542.bsky.social PhD researcher in Scottish Literature | Writing about the cultural afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots in Scotland 🏴👑 | AHRC-funded @ University of Glasgow
Emily Jane Rothwell 🖤🌸🖋️ @emjanerothwell.bsky.social PhD candidate/historian/writer•♥️ history+art history, literary childhoods, intellectual pasts, books, prints, myths, maps, fairy tales, old sites, the cozy+kind• Canadian🍁 #ElbowsUp• #GoSensGo #BlueJays50• (my other account is hacked)•♥️ kindness🍃•
Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social Ex-historian of social and political thought (Cambridge, Birkbeck). Ex-Amazon (Alexa, AGI). LRB reader. 2025-26 side-mission: fighting global bias on Wikidata & Wikipedia.
"Only that which has no history can be defined"
Lene D. Kottal @kottalgenealogy.com Danish professional genealogist. Check out my blog if you want free tips for finding your ancestors from Denmark - the latest post includes a photo of tiny me at my baptism!
https://www.genealogistkottal.com/blog/
Martin @rocky64.bsky.social Norwegian amateur genealogist. Blogging about Norwegian genealogy in English, I provide help. Other interests are reading, photography, and music (clarinet, organ and accordion) History studies with genealogy.
Website: https://martinroe.com/blog/
Margaret Ford🌲🏠 @maggief.bsky.social Family historian doing a One place study for Childs Ercall and Tibberton, Shropshire and also for West Smethwick, Staffordshire
Welwyn Archaeological Society @welwynarchsoc.bsky.social The Society's Blue Sky feed run by the Director with an interest in all things archaeological especially archaeological method, geophysics and fieldwork. Have been known to publish a few things on coins and stats too. Always looking for speakers!
Garden History Research Foundation (NZ) @gardhistnz.bsky.social The Garden History Research Foundation's purpose is to ‘promote an understanding of the context, meaning and history of gardens’ in New Zealand. #gardenhistory
gardenhistoryresearchfoundation.com
Catherine Angerson @sonofanger.bsky.social Archivist and manuscripts curator. Research on Anglo-German cultural relations and literary networks
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
William Peter MacMason @wpmacmason.bsky.social Fighter. Lover. Amateur European political enthusiast. Military History, Star Trek, politics, potpourri.
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social medievalist. law & history (old) | conspiracy theories (old and new) | taiwan (new and yet to be) | chicago —> los angeles
carnegie fellow ‘24-‘26, writing a book on medieval conspiracy theories
elisedwang.com
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Anna Grey @annamgrey.bsky.social By day data geek and research and innovation management guru. By night, usually asleep. Plus knitting, singing and cat servant. Comments are in a personal capacity.
Peigi MacKillop @peigibheag.bsky.social Heritage, archaeology, cooking, art, fashion, Gaelic, Berneray. Ex-librarian, ex Oracle admin. I have my books, and my poetry to protect me. 💙 NHS
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
Guy Walters @guywalters.bsky.social Historian, hack, presenter, runner.
Sometimes wears dodgy trousers.
guy@guywalters.com
Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social Research Curator at the Amelia, Tunbridge Wells. Entomologist. Natural historian. Local historian. Ecology & heritage of Scilly & the Channel Islands
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Jake Stattel @jakestattel.bsky.social Medieval Historian, Postdoc Fellow at Cambridge | Vikings, the Danelaw, Legal History | https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-jake-stattel
Septimus Brown @septimusbrown.com Senior editor at DarlingAxe.com. Novelist at SeptimusBrown.com. Award-winning short-fiction writer. Chaotic good. He/they. 🏳️🌈
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social “Data Travels” Postdoc @UCC 🧳 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands 📚 Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 🍃 Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness “pre BMI” 💊
Hannah Boston @hannah-boston.bsky.social LRS Nigel Burn Fellow at Divinity Faculty and Clare Hall, Cambridge. Medieval Loyalty Research Network co-organiser (https://medievalloyalty.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk). Charters, property, environment, and regional society. Occasional archaeologist
Richard Purkiss @richardpurkiss.bsky.social Early medievalist. English society, law, landscape c. 600–1100. Book in progress on c10–11 East Anglia.
Jane Hough 🌳🧬🏡 @allthosebefore.bsky.social Family historian, blogger, podcast guest and speaker. Pharos Advanced Certificate student. Also Mum, wife, and full-time public servant of 34 years and counting.
#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #OnePlaceStudy
www.allthosebefore.co.uk
Hertford Choral Society @hertfordchoralsoc.bsky.social A friendly non-auditioned community SATB choir. 100 singers. Singing in Hertford since 1938, rehearsing Tues eves, Sele School. MD Manvinder Rattan. Wide repertoire of classical/new choral works. New singers welcome. Lots of fun. www.hertfordchoral.org.uk
People of 1381 @peopleof1381.bsky.social 'The People of 1381' is a major AHRC-funded project investigating participants in the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 in England. It has compiled a comprehensive database of rebels, victims and places affected by the revolt: www.1381.online.
North West Kent Family History Society @nwkfhs.bsky.social We are one of Kent's and the UK's premier Family History Societies - if you want to find out more why not take a look at our website:
https://www.nwkfhs.org.uk
Karen Robinson @karen-rob.bsky.social Enjoys reading (especially detective novels), history, going for walks, tennis (watching not playing), Strictly Come Dancing.
Dr. Jamie LH Goodall @lhistorienne.bsky.social History PhD. Pirate expert. ☠🏴☠️⚓️ Author/Editor. Educator.
As seen on TV (History Channel). 📺
Elder Millennial. Forever emo kid. ♉ Tattoo lover. AuDHD. A makeup obsessed LEGO enthusiast & vinyl hoarder.
📸: L_Historienne
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Ariela Gross @arielagross.bsky.social Distinguished Prof of Law & History @UCLALaw, cat lady, mom, lover of democracy. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Www.arielajgross.com
Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social Dipterist, Entomologist, presenter, author, museum lover
Principal Curator, Flies and fleas, Natural History Museum, London, UK
@ellencarney.bsky.social @ellencarney.bsky.social 
Will Hulbert @whulbert-photos.bsky.social Photographer (of Landscape | Wildlife | Nature | Macro | Flowers)
https://1-william-hulbert.pixels.com/
Robb Robinson @robb51.bsky.social Maritime and British historian. British Commission for Maritime History Trustee, Hon Research Fellow at the University of Hull. Interests include the Yorkshire Coast, fisheries history and the role of smaller vessels in the Great War at Sea.
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Megan Shersby @meganshersby.bsky.social Naturalist, writer and board gamer. Working at @wildlifebcn.org (views my own). Lead author of Where to Watch Wildlife in Britain By Low-carbon Transport (2026). Owner of a dog/servant to two cats. She/her.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social Writer, Editor, Guardian Country Diarist. Author of LAND BENEATH THE WAVES (one of BBC Wildlife Best Books of 2025): https://shorturl.at/PFJPF
MA, PGCE, FBNA, Patron #JohnClare Countryside, Trustee of British Naturalists' Assoc. Rep: Joanna Swainson
Jennifer Chung @doctorchungie.bsky.social Associate Professor @ioe.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk focusing on Early Years Education, Finland's education system, and Nordic education in general.
Matt Brudenell @mattbrudenell.bsky.social Eastern England archaeologist
Andrew Mayfield @andersarchaeology.bsky.social Community archaeologist, found at Greenwich and Richmond. Member of SWAG. Enabled archaeology, LIDAR, volunteering and the archaeology of parks 🛞🔥🌳
Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social Archaeologist of borders, working on the Anglo-Cymric borderland and its folklore, digital humanist. Trustee, Offa's Dyke Association. All ops very much my own. archaeoborders.wordpress.com
Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social Birder. Bird surveyor. Butterflies.Moths.RSPB,BTO & Norfolk Museums volunteer, photography mainly natural history & landscapes, I only use my photographs on here except for reposts.Norfolk , UK. No DM’s. No posts or bio and I will block you.🇬🇧
Sebastian Heath @sebhth.bsky.social Mediterranean & computational archaeologist. ISAW/NYU. Child of immigrants. Opinions/typos mine. Original work CC-By. https://gaerhf.org https://p-lod.org https://palp.art https://roman-amphitheaters.org https://isaw.nyu.edu/publications/isaw-papers
Becky Wallower @bwallower.bsky.social archaeology, history, environment, quirky stuff -- love London, arts, travel -- writer, organiser, modest activist/stirrer 🏺
Clare Burke @thesherdnerd.bsky.social #Archaeologist | Craft, Foodways & Identity: Where, How & Why pots were made & used in prehistoric #Aegean #Balkans 🏺🧪| Assist. Prof Arch Materials, Uni of Nottingham | Own views/Not endorsements https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Clare-Burk
Fergus Murray @oolong.co.uk Monotropic writer, science tutor, Autistic community organiser and independent researcher. Based in Edinburgh.
they/them.
https://linktr.ee/0olong
Peter Clayton @petermclayton.bsky.social Wildlife photographer, Somerset UK
Sarah @sarahhistory.bsky.social Historian, community archaeologist, family tree research, and Computing teacher, LBDAHS Archaeologist. Wing Heritage Group, One Place Study, OU Graduate
Julie_Gfamily @juliegfamily.bsky.social Family historian and One Place Study researcher of Long Buckby Wharf and Boat Families of the Grand Junction Canal.
Former library assistant, collector of many crafts.
Mary Stanford Pitkin @justmaryp.bsky.social Genealogist, Avid Historical Romance Reader, Gun Sense Voter, Proudly Woke, Mom of 3 adults and 2 cats. Born in Connecticut. Have lived in Charlotte for 30 years. Taking Genealogy jobs, lots of references, cheap prices.
Ver Valley Society @vervalleysoc.bsky.social Join us and help to protect and promote the precious River Ver. Riverbank working parties, great walks, evenings with captivating guest speakers and much more.
Mike Hallett @mikehallett.bsky.social From Bassingbourn in beautiful South Cambridgeshire
RachelChurcherWriting @rachelchurcher.bsky.social Award-winning YA author. Indie editor, YA reviewer, co-founder of www.forewordfestival.uk
LGBTQ+ novel 'Angels' available now from bookshops, plus Amazon, Waterstones, B&N, Kobo, Apple, Smashwords, Allstora.
www.tallerbooks.com
freebook.tallerbooks.com
Samantha (Samanthahalf) @samanthalf.bsky.social Librarian, crafter, wokerati, she/her. Knitting & spinning & chatting & sewing & reading & generally carrying on. Business librarian in higher ed. Easily distracted. Owns small child and giant baby, posts indulgently on the subject. Tries to be an Ally 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social Author (The Ember of Elyssia Quartet, Fortune's Calling Trilogy, THE BRIDAL PARTY, THE PRINCE WITH SIX FACES). Dice roller. Disabled in the library. All opinions mine. All around nerd.
https://linktr.ee/annaholmeswritesbooks
(She/they) ♿️🏳️🌈
George @maerklinman.bsky.social Passionate European, lover of food, art, gardening, literature, languages and model railways, raised in Sweden, educated in England and now settled in Belgium. Earns a living at KU Leuven, father of six and generally very confused as to what just happened.
Luciana Cordo Russo @lucianacordo.bsky.social Newton International Fellow @britishacademy.bsky.social at the University of Bristol
Charlemagne in Wales Project - Transnational narratives - Comparative medieval literatures
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/luciana-m-c
Kathryn Maude @krmaude.bsky.social Head of Medieval Records at The National Archives
Cecilie @ceeaa.bsky.social PhD candidate | A microhistorical lens on refugee women and children in the aftermath of WWII | Educator and historian in training | Views are my own
Wollaston Museum @wollastonmuseum.bsky.social Village Museum, operated by Wollaston Heritage Society (est 1970). Site includes the between-the-wars Curiosity Cottage and Beacon Hill, a Scheduled Ancient Monument. 
Ilford Historical Society @ilfordhistory.bsky.social The Bluesky account for the Ilford Historical Society. Posts by @ColinRuneckles
Website:
https://ilfordhistoricalsociety.weebly.com/
St Albans Museums @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social Celebrating St Albans arts, history and community
Nat Doig @weirdinthewade.bsky.social I’ve an award winning podcast about all that’s weird and a little off kilter in the town of Biggleswade and Bedfordshire. History with a pinch of the paranormal, folklore & urban legends. I also like cake, cats, beating bosses and disability rights.
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Ben Clifford @benclifford.bsky.social Professor of Spatial Planning. Geographer-Planner based in London. Cities, housing, environment, government. Enjoys travel, hiking, cycling and lots more.
David Simpkin @simplerdave.bsky.social Fine words butter no parsnips.
Once and future bookseller, currently based in deepest Nottinghamshire.
@Simplerdave on all decent social media - find me here, there and almost everywhere...