museumsmith @museumsmith.bsky.social Elderly millennial, museum factotum, 🇬🇧 🇪🇺, lay catholic-ish Anglican of non-conformist ancestry, #AuDHD, strolling player, cishet 🏳️🌈/🏳️⚧️/🍉/anti-racist/refugee ally.
Own views (who else would want them?!). He/him.
Apollo @apollo-magazine.com The International Art Magazine. Published monthly since 1925, we cover everything from antiquities to contemporary work | London | https://www.apollo-magazine.com/
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
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Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk Husband, father and Mayor of the greatest city in the world. He/Him.
Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social Scriptwritist
Chris Cook @chriscook.news FT enterprise editor. South London nationalist. Articles with my byline get posted automagically on @cook.report
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
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
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Stephen Kay @stephenkay.bsky.social Archaeology Manager, British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social
Landscape Archaeologist
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org
Honorary Secretary @archprospection.bsky.social
FSA FRHistS
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5920-3377
James Harland @jmharland.bsky.social Late Roman & Early Medieval History & Archaeology @unibonn.bsky.social
Exploring what happens when empires die.
Publications available at http://jmharland.hcommons.org
https://www.igw.uni-bonn.de/de/institut/altegeschichte/personen/james-harland
Lucy Inglis @lucyinglis.bsky.social Does what it says on the tin.
@chloehadj.bsky.social @chloehadj.bsky.social
Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social Oh god not again (📺🎬: ITG, 📚: Curtis Brown)
Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social Astrophysicist, science writer for @iflscience.com, geek, immigrant, and also The Astroholic. Chair of @prideinstem.bsky.social | 📖 Invisible Rainbows out May 21 | He/him | opinions are my own
https://linktr.ee/theastroholic
Caroline Venezia @caroline-venezia.bsky.social Happily retired, reading, eating, drinking, snoozing. Author's wife, cat's mother, she/her.
🇪🇺 Still European, proud new Italian 🇮🇹
🏳️🌈 Ally of all good-hearted people 🏳️⚧️
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
Carausius @carausius286.bsky.social Hello, classics graduate - I’m interested in classics, the middle ages, history in general and art. Also, rabbits. Finished the Aeneid, Heroides, Catullus, Georgics, Suetonius in Latin. Now on Silius Italicus’ Punica.
“Sarcastic Brit” - the Guardian
Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social "Comedian". Doom in Doctor Who. Host @mysteryontherocks.bsky.social & Long Distance, Bit Weird (https://longdistancebitweird.podbean.com)
Acting: Foundry Management VO: The Joneses
For all enquiries/brand partnerships: info@gagreflex.co.uk
she/her
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Eric J. Lyman @ericjlyman.bsky.social Long-time writer and journalist living in Rome. Tri-cultural (U.S., DomRep, Italy), dog lover, sommelier, former #FloridaMan.
Julia Hillner @writinghelena.bsky.social Writing about imperial women to understand late antiquity:
history - ideology - dynasty - violence - agency - memory
And about: crime, punishment, imprisonment, prosopography, namelessness, digital humanities, and 👆 THE CITY OF ROME
@dependencybonn.de
Yale Classics Library @yaleclassicslib.bsky.social News and notes relevant to the study of Greco-Roman world and its reception very broadly considered, especially notices of new journal publications, with a particular interest in pre-modern philosophy in a global context. https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social FT Architecture and Design critic. Author of ‘On the Street: In-Between Architecture’. Jeez. Another platform. @financialtimes.com
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Sarah Phelps @phelpsiesarah.bsky.social Writer. The Christie Quintet that got on some people’s tits. Dublin Murders. A Very British Scandal. Coming soon: The Sixth Commandment.
Alan @ Telson @telson.bsky.social History buff
Simply Susan 💙 @simplysusan.bsky.social I prefer to begin the day in a gradual manner.
Wanted in Rome @wantedinrome.bsky.social Rome’s English language magazine since 1985.
News, culture and insights into Rome and Italy.
www.wantedinrome.com
Tony Potter @tony-potter.bsky.social Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP funded PhD student at the Open University | Researching Sensory Experience in Caeretan Funerary Assemblages | #NewMaterialism | #AssemblageTheory | #MaterialReligion | #Archaeology | #Etruscology | #Neurodivergent | #JACTDurham
Anthony Majanlahti @anthonymajanlahti.bsky.social Historian living in Rome. 🏳️🌈 Author of "The Families who Made Rome, a history and a guide" (Chatto, 2004). Currently writing a single-volume urban history of Rome for OUP.
Only by knowledge of history can we know our context. Plus, it's fun!
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social Latest book news, author updates, and ancient world insights from Bloomsbury Classical Studies & Archaeology.🏺
Home of the 'Where Can Classics Take You?' campaign.
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows @rogueclassicist.bsky.social I've been curating classics social media since the 1990s and still feel a need to do it!
Classics /Ancient World feed:
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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
Arthur Urbano 🌍📷🏛️🛫🇮🇹🤌😷 @arturoviaggia.bsky.social Prof @ Providence College and lifelong resident of #RhodeIsland (more or less)
#Sabbaticaling
#EarlyChristianity
#Photography
#VirtualTravel
#SartorialTheology
#Interfaith
#Covid
Posts about ma figghia (that's Sicilian), my toddler daughter, too!
Dr Gillian Kenny @medievalgill.bsky.social Historian | Medieval and early modern Ireland and its women | Writing a new biography of Gráinne O Malley/Granuaile aka the Pirate Queen | Adjunct assoc prof @ucd | Repped by Watson Little
Michelle @schizzibizzi.bsky.social Creando rte ispirato dalla romanità che mi assale ogni giorno. Penne, inchiostro, carta, linoleo, tutto a mano. Mi trovi al bar con un Pasticciotto (P maiuscola, è il nome del mio cane.)
https://schizzibizzi.com
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Chapps @chapps.bsky.social Former tech drone, living in L.A. I now create digital reconstructions of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. No, really. 🏳️🌈
Flickr account (museum photos, mainly, free to use and high res): https://www.flickr.com/photos/125386285@N02/
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Gregory Stringer @gregorystringer.bsky.social Latin Teacher, historian, slow runner, hack drummer, amateur essayist, allstar Trekkie. 🖖 https://gregorypstringer.medium.com/fathers-and-sons-98e89b258a6d
Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social Staff Writer at The New Yorker, writing a weekly column on tech & culture. Author of Filterworld (2024) & The Longing for Less (2020). Newsletter fan. Email: kyle_chayka@newyorker.com. Ava is a sloth cake.
Mark Emlyn Evans @marcooth.bsky.social May all your dreams come true on this, your very special day.
Susan Klaiber @susanklaiber.bsky.social Architectural historian | Baroque, early modern & beyond
American formerly in 🇩🇪 & 🇮🇹, now 🇨🇭 | Detroit diaspora
https://susanklaiber.wordpress.com/
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
Bruce Boucher @bruceboucher.bsky.social Flâneur and former Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum
Chris @chrismbr.bsky.social art-architecture-food-theatre-history-delight and other pleasing things
@dennislong1950.bsky.social @dennislong1950.bsky.social
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social My new album LIAR (Love Isn't A Right) out NOW!
Get LIAR: http://tt.bio.to/LIAR
All things Tanita: https://linktr.ee/tanitamusic
Matthew Ball @matthewball.bsky.social Curator for Iron Age and Roman Coin Finds (@findsorguk.bsky.social / British Museum). Vice-President of the Royal Numismatic Society. Trying to use this more, but X sucked all the joy out of social media.
Elizabeth Crawford @womanssphere.bsky.social Historian. Researcher and writer. In the past sold books by and about women. European. FRHistS. OBE.
Website womanandhersphere.com
New book - https://tinyurl.com/5cdn7dw9 (Bloomsbury) or https://amzn.eu/d/0j4JlLyR (Amazon)
Donald White @donaldwhite.bsky.social
tim @tjmcc22.bsky.social
@romefromhome.bsky.social @romefromhome.bsky.social
James Heath @mumblerjamie.bsky.social BA Classical Civilisations, MA City of Rome. Views my own. Flickr - https://www.flickr.com/photos/mumblerjamie/
"Every road does not lead to Rome, but every road in Rome leads to eternity"
@ljxmenezes.bsky.social @ljxmenezes.bsky.social
michelle weber @michelleinchief.com Roman with a New Jersey core. Any dog is better than all people . Editor, formerly Longreads and Pipe Wrench. Late-breaking artist. "As demure as a brick to the head."
Disegni: schizzibizzi.com
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Tobias Jones @tobiasjones.bsky.social Italy-based journalist & award-winnning writer: Ultra, The Po, Blood on the Altar, A Place of Refuge, The Dark Heart of Italy, Utopian Dreams etc. Carpenter, listener, teacher - always co-building communities (Windsor Hill Wood, Common Home etc.) NSNO
Thom Eagle @thomeagle.bsky.social I write and I cook and I grow things
Rosanna Raimato @rraimato.bsky.social Education & School Leadership|
Parent|Deputy Headteacher|Teacher|Recent Trustee|Coach|FCCT|
Veteran Family & British/Italian 🇬🇧🇮🇹
Hannah Williams @hkatewilliams.bsky.social Editor at The Londoner ~hannah@the-londoner.co.uk
Freelance arts and culture at the New Yorker/FT/Atlantic/Granta/Guardian etc etc ~h.katewilliams@gmail.com
Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon @lucyantal.bsky.social Cook, occasional writer, https://finom.home.blog/ campaigner for fair food access for all https://www.alchemickitchen.org
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.
Flora 🏺 Ancient History Art @flaroh.bsky.social Flora 🪴 she/her📍Newcastle, UK
🏺Ancient Mediterranean art🏺
💌Contact: flora@flarohillustration.com
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Nicola Miller @nicmiller.bsky.social Food column + features, Suffolk News + others
Food slot @ Suffolk Sounds Radio
Food events @ Bury St Eds Lit Fest
Newsletter: Tales From Topographic Kitchens
GFW online food writer '20, F&M cookery writer '22
https://linktr.ee/nicolamiller
Josh Spero @joshspero.ft.com Wealth editor, Financial Times. I like swimming, classical music and cryptic crosswords. Working on a memoir about my earlier life at a magazine for the very rich. he/him 🏳️🌈 josh.spero@ft.com
Emma Southon @emmasouthon.bsky.social Roman Historian
Following Hadrian @followinghadrian.bsky.social Hadrianophile
"omnium curiositatum explorator"
#Hadrian1900
https://followinghadrian.com/
Caroline Lawrence @carolawrence.bsky.social Classicist, Children’s Author, Christian, Cinephile, Londoner
www.carolinelawrence.com
Greg Woolf @gregwoolf.bsky.social Historian and archaeologist of the ancient world. New York and the East Neuk of Fife.
Dr Emlyn Dodd @emlynkd.bsky.social Classical Archaeologist, Adelaide University
Assoc. Fellow, @ics.bsky.social
Former A/Director, @bsrome.bsky.social
Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️
Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷
FSA FRHistS FHEA.
🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
Liz Anderson @lizanderson.bsky.social Licensed Thames Mudlark. Up To My Eyes In Silt. NB: It is illegal to search the tidal Thames Foreshore, for any reason, without a valid permit from the Port of London Authority.
Instagram: @lizanderson2
Blog: A Mudlark’s Diary https://amudlarksdiary.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Steven Ellis @stevenellis.bsky.social Roman archaeologist.
LiberalDespot @druidic.org Likes Photography, Italy, Whisky, The Magnetic Fields, Autonomy, Glasgow, &c
Je voudrais, et ce sera le dernier et le plus ardent de mes souhaits, je voudrais que le dernier des rois fût étranglé avec les boyaux du dernier prêtre.
Glasgow, Yr Hen Ogledd
British School at Rome @bsrome.bsky.social The BSR is an interdisciplinary research institute in Rome for the arts, humanities and social sciences
The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
Tom Holland @holland-tom.bsky.social New translation of Suetonius out in February! Dinosaur enthusiast. ‘A leading English cricketer’ - The Times. Podcast: theresthistory.bsky.social
Gabrielle Schaffner @gabrielle-sch.bsky.social Ceramic artist, cooker, birder, sometimes reader, Italian language learner, Italy-lover, archeology fan.
https://www.gabrielleschaffnerceramics.com
Peter Barrett @cookblog.bsky.social Your mom's favorite food writer
https://thingsonbread.substack.com
https://flavor-freaks.net
Nathalie @spacedlaw.bsky.social Dreamer
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Diana Spencer @dianajspencer.bsky.social Dean of Liberal Arts & Natural Sciences, Birmingham (UK), Professor of Classics; When not at work, I'm home in Dublin (or Italy) 🇮🇪 🇪🇺
Personal account. Also @dianajspencer@mastodon.ie, @dianajspencer
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/
Dr Sophie Hay @pompei79.bsky.social Just an archaeologist who works at the Archaeological Park of Pompeii
Rachel Roddy @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social Food and cookery writer, weekly in The Guardian. Rome-based since 2005.
Elizabeth Crawford @womanandhersphere.bsky.social Historian. Researcher and writer - dealer in books and ephemera. European. FRHistS. OBE
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