Madame Hardy @madamehardy.bsky.social Madame Hardy. Was mme_hardy on Twitter. I love gardening, sewing, and reading. Mostly reposts of other people's jokes and historical stuff.
She/her.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Adrian Vickers @avick.bsky.social Professor Emeritus. Historian and art historian, especially of Indonesia/Bali. DH, cricket, representation. Comments personal and not related to my university’s views. Projects include http://balipaintings.org/ and https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/
Simon's Cat @simonscatofficial.bsky.social Official Bluesky channel. Welcome! 👋
A hangry, but lovable cat. 🐱
Animation-illustrations by Simon Tofield.
FILMS & SHOP👇
linktr.ee/simonscat
g.j.hilton @hltn.bsky.social historian of scenography
interests: the material, manufacture & manufacturers of spectacle (intermezzi, machines, festivals, feasts, fireworks); history of magnificence from below
before I was ill: choreographer, production designer, theatrical engineer
Katherine @katherinersf.bsky.social Introvert who loves opera, books, dogs and cats. Fan of classic film, especially silents, pre-Codes and noir. I don't say much. I drink tea and read things. she/her
Sam Godfrey @skgodfrey.bsky.social Artist & practice-based PhD researcher
Exeter & Bath Spa (SWW DTP)
textiles/diy technology/kelp/trans studies
(they/them)
sarahkgodfrey.com
Devon @countyofdevon.bsky.social News and updates from the county of Devon, UK - we originally started this service on "the bird app" in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
Erika Is Still Writing @bluetit24.bsky.social Demokrati, politik och goda levnadsvillkor, tack.
Democracy, politics and polite society, please.
Tracy Borman OBE @tracyborman.bsky.social Historian, author and joint chief curator of Historic Royal Palaces. A Lincolnshire lass and chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University.
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)
Christian Rau @christianrau.bsky.social Historian @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
| East German & Eastern European History | History of Democracy | Protest History | Urban History| Gender History |
Und sonst so: Betriebsrat a.D., Demokrat, Schallplatten-Nerd
Hier ganz privat
@h-12ml.bsky.social @h-12ml.bsky.social Garment Technologist - mad about textiles, garments and anything related to needles & threads.
I love and adore cats.
Jacqui @heajacq.bsky.social Elder millennial. // Former classically trained ballerina getting back to the barre. // Theatre kid forever. // Probably watching too much TV for my own good.
Historic Royal Palaces @hrp-palaces.bsky.social Six palaces, one charity
and a whole lot of history. 🏰
William H. Devereaux @whdevreaux.cryptoanarchy.network Random musings & smartass remarks. Neurolurker. Dilettante. He/him/his. Interested in (but not necessarily posting about) (or even doing) higher ed, IT, infosec, cocktails, music, old movies, bicycling, & other stuff I don't have room for.
AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social Answers about history, from historians | Biweekly podcast | "Good history eggs on the internet"| Ask questions at https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Natalie Nudell @natalienudell.bsky.social Fashion and textile historian (FIT)
Director of the Fashion Calendar Research Database fashioncalendar.fitnyc.edu
Writer and producer of the documentary “Calendar Girl”
Author of “In American Fashion, Ruth Finley’s Fashion Calendar” 
Marina Amaral @marinamaral.bsky.social Digital colorist, history buff, bestselling author, Forbes Under 30, loves dogs and coffee, etc. #actuallyautistic
Victorian Etiquette @victorianetiquette.bsky.social Simple instructions in the art of appearing to the best advantage on all occasions. Victorian customs, manners, and fashion from contemporary sources. #archives #history #research
“Never decline to take wine when asked.”
John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Charlotte Bartle-McDaniel @ckbmcd.bsky.social 📚Postgrad/PhD researcher - Hair in 19thC & Neo-Victorian mourning/memorialisation • Anglo-American Literature • Material culture • Death & dying • Grief • Sensation fiction • Popular fiction •
Yorkshire 🏴 ➡️ Missouri 🇺🇸
💀 Taphophile
http://www.ckbmcd.com
The Traveling Tatter @thetravelingtatter.bsky.social Lace lover and advocate; I shuttle tat, teach beginner shuttle tatting classes and sell tatting supplies. Join me for live demo's on Twitch!
https://www.twitch.tv/thetravelingtatter
https://collected-chaos.com
https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheTravelingTatter
Emma V. Gerstein @sassmill.bsky.social Gay museum lady that sews things. Part time Victorian woman, functionally indistinguishable from an eBay haunted doll. Living history, fashion history, and a definite lack of impulse control.
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
DMU Archives and Rare Books @dmuspecialcolls.bsky.social De Montfort University Special Collections, part of Library and Student Services. Explore our collections on our catalogue: http://specialcollections.catalogue.dmu.ac.uk
Dr Katharine Edgar @katharineedgar.bsky.social Historical fiction writer, recreational Tudor and mistress of many obsolete crafts.
History, textiles, costume, more history
That History Girl @thathistorygirl.bsky.social All things history! Mostly Tudor, Regency, and Victorian, but also Neolithic, Celtic tribes, Roman invasion, Angle-Saxons, Middle Ages, Stewarts, Jacobean, Georgian, Edwardian, and more. Occasional political rants, frequent cats. 
@frenchcreavintage.bsky.social @frenchcreavintage.bsky.social Collectionneuse de revues et patrons de mode de 1830 à 1960
Mrs. Depew @mrsdepew.bsky.social Creator of Mrs. Depew Vintage, book-hoarder, massive nerd, average seamstress, poor embroiderer, magical gardener, terrible housekeeper, EPIC cook, and future swamp witch.
Dr Alan Montgomery @classicalalan.bsky.social Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore.
Buy my art and my books here: https://linktr.ee/classicalalan
Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social Recent Masters degree in Archaeological Practice at Birkbeck, University of London. Volunteer at Ham House, Richmond. Here to share my love of archaeology.
Elena Mary @elenamary.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
https://elenamary.co.uk
https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2024.2423428
Amanda R. | Arquitectura | Textil y moda | Divulgación @amandaaescala.bsky.social Arquitecta con #PhD en #BIM y #digitaltwins 🤖 Divulgación en #AEscala y tiradora de esgrima 🤺 Me gustan los hibiscus 🌺, el té chai ☕️ y las fallas 🧨
Chicago History Museum @chicagomuseum.bsky.social We share Chicago stories. Currently on view: #Chicago1871, #DesignForChange, #DressedInHistory. In the works: #AquíEnChicago.
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Anna M. Thane @annamthane.bsky.social An account about 18th-century history, flowers, historical fashion, art; can contain traces of poetry and cake. #ChandelierSunday
I blog at: http://regency-explorer.net
Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social Film critic; NSFC, NYFCC. Bylines at Criterion, Sight & Sound, Noir City, my own Substack, and wherever fine film geeks are found.
https://selfstyledsiren.substack.com/
weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social fibre arts enthusiast
https://linktr.ee/weirdmedievalguys
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
danielle thom @daniellejthom.bsky.social senior curator @ the design museum
possibly just three trenchcoats in another, much larger trenchcoat
views all my own 🇨🇮🫱🏻🫲🏼🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/danielle_j_thom
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social
https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Smithsonian Magazine @smithsonianmag.bsky.social Official feed for Smithsonian magazine. @ replies may be reprinted in the magazine. Legal: http://si.edu/Termsofuse
Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social publisher of books * mother of daughters * friend of the worker
publisher at cambridge university press focusing on US and Latin American history
hudson valley / nyc
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Kit Neale @kitneale.bsky.social Lecturer and Pathway Leader in Fashion Design: Print at Central Saint Martins, London. Whimsy and silly. Views my own.
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
Jo Paoletti @jbpaoletti.bsky.social I write about fashion and gender at https://gendermystique.substack.com/
I write about other things at https://substack.com/@jopaoletti
I also knit. alot.
https://blog.umd.edu/jopaoletti/
I block randos.
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
Rachel Tashjian @theprophetpizza.bsky.social Fashion Writer at The Washington Post
Leonie Bell @leoniebell.bsky.social Director V&A Dundee, Scotlands design museum
Honorary Professor of Design, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
Fellow Royal Society of Edinburgh
Trustee Edinburgh International Festival
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Jennifer M. Jones @jemjones.bsky.social Historian at Rutgers University researching Therese Levasseur, the Enlightenment, the global 1790s, Anglomania, fashion, clothing, and art schools; author of Sexing la Mode (Berg: 2004).
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
Ariane Fennetaux @arianefennetaux.bsky.social Prof. @Sorbonne_Nvelle History of dress material culture #ThePocket @yalebooks https://bit.ly/2OHjvPr
Fashion & Textile Studies MA @fitgradfts.bsky.social Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice MA, School of Graduate Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City
https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/graduate-studies/fashion-textile-studies/index.php
The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social Our experts bring you crucial art stories from around the world.
📍London / New York
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
Fallonthropy @movabletypo.bsky.social A black hole of fiction and hyperfixations. Books, film, tv, travel, and games. Chinese American | 🏳️🌈 | ✒️ She/Her. Currently: California
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
JSTOR @jstor.bsky.social JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. Part of the ITHAKA nonprofit family.
More about us: https://about.jstor.org/
Ms AB @justagalandadog.bsky.social Then: archaeologist, art historian, editor. Now: lover of music, admirer of creatures. Essentially stateless.🌵
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Dr Nuits de Young @nuitsdeyoung.bsky.social Historian/art historian (12C & 18C esp), lover of Old Roses, literature, art, music, pigeons & other cute creatures! Trans-inclusive egalitarian #FBPE #UKEUFriend #Aspie
GilchristHeritage at the Other Place. Posts in personal capacity.
She/They
Biopic: A Podcast Story @biopic-podcast.bsky.social The podcast documenting the good/bad/ugly/absurd of this distinctive genre of film, the biopic. A movie/history/comedy podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/1qaBKP7ho2WPqRXRQjqLJZ?si=UjaT86PfQBSIXhqSR8QJ6A
Anni Shepherd @annishep.bsky.social Dress historian, lover of tea, still working on my PhD. 
Museum of Somerset @museumofsomerset.bsky.social Museum of Somerset, Taunton. Discover 400 million years of history. Housed in Taunton's historic castle.
#MuseumofSomerset
Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
Sign up to our newsletter ✉️ https://bit.ly/4eQVON5
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
Penguin Books @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social We publish fiction and nonfiction adorned with the famous dignified but flippant logo.
The Court Jeweller (Lauren Kiehna) @courtjeweller.bsky.social History, royalty, and other sparkly stuff from Lauren Kiehna (@laurenkiehna.bsky.social), writer & editor at thecourtjeweller.com.
Contact: lauren@thecourtjeweller.com
Journal of Victorian Culture @jofvictculture.bsky.social The Journal of Victorian Culture publishes #VictorianStudies articles. We also run JVC Online. We welcome articles & posts on any nineteenth-century topic.
Our linked articles: https://linktr.ee/elly.mccausland
@liztregenza.bsky.social @liztregenza.bsky.social 
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Ellen Askey @elleaskey.bsky.social ~ currently caring for a collection in a castle ~
Mostly sharing textiles or other weird and wonderful nic knackery
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. 
National Theatre @nationaltheatre.org.uk 🎭 On Stage on the South Bank
💻 Online with National Theatre at Home
🍿 In Cinemas with National Theatre Live
@chertseymuseum.bsky.social @chertseymuseum.bsky.social 
Musée d'Orsay @museeorsay.bsky.social 
Frock Flicks @frockflicks.bsky.social A trio of costumers from the SF Bay Area who have OPINIONS about historical costume movies & TV shows.
Prof Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas 💋 @fashionnatascha.bsky.social fashion lover • Prof Marketing & Sustainable Fashion Ravensbourne • FRSA • NTF • VC @costumesociety.org.uk • Chair PRME UKI • LEGO® Serious Play® • Carbon literacy
Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social 🖼 🏺 World famous collections, from Egyptian mummies to contemporary art
🕙 Open every day 10am–5pm 🏛 linktr.ee/ashmoleanmuseum
The Bowes Museum @thebowesmuseum.bsky.social A stunning French-style museum in Barnard Castle with world-class art, fashion, design and 22 acres of parkland.
Bexhill Museum @bexhillmuseum.bsky.social We are an independent museum in Bexhill, East Sussex. Our collections include natural history, clothing and transport. Our opening hours are Tuesday to Sunday from 11-4.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social I hope you smile today 🐈⬛🤍
My links: https://linktr.ee/Purrinink
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland 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
Vendy Hoppe @vendyhoppe.bsky.social ESRC funded PhD candidate at The University of Manchester, previously University of Warwick. Researching early modern velvets, visual & material cultures.
Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social Books and Archives since 1683.
Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk
Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
Eleanor Medhurst (she/her) @eleanormedhurst.bsky.social Lesbian fashion historian, writer, lecturer 💖☀️ http://dressingdykes.com 📚 ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’ out now!
📍Brighton, UK.
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
The Art of Parisian Chic (2025) @artofparisianchic.bsky.social The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris… a book on art & fashion by @addressingart.bsky.social to be published by Bloomsbury in 2025!
Jerry Moore @jerrymoorecostume.bsky.social 💼Costume Historian | Previously a Lecturer on BA (Hons) Costume Production at Arts University Plymouth | 📚Author of The Handbook for Historical Pattern Cutting| 🎓PhD Art History Candidate | Based in Montréal, Canada 🇨🇦 #costume