Rural Museums Network @ruralmuseums.bsky.social The Rural Museums Network is a registered charity, aimed at promoting learning and encouraging a wider understanding of the UK’s rural heritage.
Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org Celebrating everyday skills, stories & traditions passed down through generations in Ulster.
🧵 Putting the past in dialogue with the present — to shape the future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsterfolkmuseum.org
Herschel Museum of Astronomy @herschelmuseum.bsky.social The Herschel Museum of Astronomy is the home of William and Caroline Herschel, distinguished astronomers and musicians. Patron: Sir Brian May 🔭🎸
https://herschelmuseum.org.uk/
Museum of Bath Architecture @batharchitecture.bsky.social A unique museum exploring the architecture, development and built heritage of Bath. A Bath Preservation Trust #museum.
https://museumofbatharchitecture.org.uk/
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, ealing, faroe, gib, hungary, spain
National Museum Directors' Council @nmdcnews.bsky.social The National Museum Directors' Council represents the leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums.
Our Newsletter updates you on what's happening in museums and cultural policy in the UK.
https://www.nationalmuseums.org.uk/
Walkie Talkie @walkietalkieguides.bsky.social We empower museum interpreters and curators to bring stories to life - simple, multilingual, and human-centric.
Sign up and create your first museum guides for free (no credit card needed): walkietalk.ie
Profile managed by creators: Åsmund & Thor
Tim Bowen Antiques @timbowenantiques.bsky.social Specialists in old Welsh furniture & folk art. BADA member.
Authors of ‘The Welsh Stick Chair’
& @ft_weekend Cult Shop.
Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales, UK.
https://timbowenantiques.co.uk/
Futurum Careers @futurumcareers.bsky.social Helping researchers to inspire, teachers to motivate and students to aspire! Check out our website for free classroom resources.
www.futurumcareers.com
Delphine Jasmin-Belisle @delphinejb.bsky.social Development & Membership at the Heritage Alliance. Trustee at The Maritime Heritage Trust. Director at Hild. Nichiren Buddhist and SGI Member. Talk in footnotes. Views my own.
Ulster American Folk Park @ulsteramericanfolkpark.org Journey back in time to explore the bold migrations from Ulster to North America.
⛵ Walk in the footsteps of those who left, endured, and built anew.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsteramericanfolkpark.org
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
Jamie Baldrick @jamiebaldrick.bsky.social 🎨 Artist in Leamington Spa.
🍀 Originally from Derry.
jamiebaldrick.etsy.com 
No.1 Royal Crescent @no1royalcrescent.bsky.social Experience fashionable English 18th century living at the first house to be built in the Royal Crescent, Bath. Also known as the Featherington residence in Bridgerton ✒
https://no1royalcrescent.org.uk/
#Museum
Beckford's Tower @beckfordstower.bsky.social 120ft high Tower and #Museum in Bath. Built in 1826 for the use of one privileged man, now open to all.
https://beckfordstower.org.uk/
Scientia @scientiasocial.bsky.social Opening a dialogue between science and society
www.scientia.global
TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social A Tipperary, Ireland based indie bookseller of new, old and inbetween books. Spend €20 & get free shipping !
Gaeilge agus fáilte.
www.thebookshop.ie
linktr.ee/thebookshop.ie
https://www.instagram.com/thebookshop.ie/
Dr Caitlín Smith @caitlin-smith.bsky.social PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Lecturer in Public History @keeleuniversity.bsky.social. Formerly Leverhulme Trust ECF at Liverpool.
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
Frontiers before borders conference 2025 @frontiers2025.bsky.social Interdisciplinary conference on #frontiers, 11-12 July 2025 @tlrhub.bsky.social, @tcddublin.bsky.social. Organised by @pduffy1.bsky.social. Enquiries to pduffy1@tcd.ie. Book tickets here: https://fixr.co/event/frontiers-before-borders-tickets-166477930
Little Bangor Stories @lbangorstories.bsky.social A little podcast documenting the social history of Bangor in County Down, Northern Ireland. Voices with stories to tell. Curated by Ann-Marie Foster.
www.littlebangorstories.co.uk
The Patchwork Quill by Heather McGarrigle @thepatchworkquill.bsky.social 🪡 Crafting 🧠 Creativity 🖼 Culture
A wordy nerd in Northern Ireland. Sharing my love for making and mending, charity shop treasures, and local arts and culture.
www.thepatchworkquill.com
Trinity Long Room Hub @tlrhub.bsky.social 📣 Activating Public Humanities
📚 Advancing Research Excellence
💥 Driving Innovative Research
📩 Signup for events: http://tinyurl.com/TLRHnews
💬 #hubmatters
🌐 https://www.tcd.ie/trinitylongroomhub/
Shamrock Roots @shamrockroots.com Discover the people and places that matter to you. Hire Ciara Chivers, Qualified Genealogist, to research your family tree or house history: http://shamrockroots.com
Roisin Doherty @rd71a.bsky.social Curator at the Tower Museum Derry, Museums Association Rep NI, former board member of the Northern Ireland Museums Council and independent museum and heritage consultant. All views my own.
@rcpiheritagecentre.bsky.social @rcpiheritagecentre.bsky.social 
Ciarán Walsh @curatordotie.bsky.social Indie curator/writer, currently working with Kerry Writers' Museum & Heritage Council on R&D on local film heritage assets. Co-leader on repatriation of 'Stolen Skulls' of Inishbofin, featured in 'Iarsmaí' (2023). Published "A Very English Savage" (2022).
Claudia Kinmonth MRIA FSA @claudiakinmonth.bsky.social Author of books with Yale University Press & of 'Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000' @corkup.bsky.social ... Board Member @nmireland.bsky.social ... @ria.ie ... green optimist
Morris Graves Museum of Art @thegravesmuseum.bsky.social Supporting the art and artists of Northern California like it's our job. 
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
Vernacular Architecture Group @varchgroup.bsky.social The Vernacular Architecture Group was formed in 1952 to further the study of traditional buildings, originally those of the British Isles. Today the VAG also reflects a growing interest in buildings from other parts of the world. https://www.vag.org.uk
Kathryn Davies @kathrynfdavies.bsky.social PhD candidate in History of Art at The Courtauld • Monstrosity, posthumanism, and early modern print culture in Antwerp
she/her
HSTM Network Ireland #HSTM @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network Ireland fosters research, teaching & engagement in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HSTM #MedHums #Science #Tech #Medicine #Health #Speirgorm Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
BHL Australia @bhl-au.bsky.social Digitising Australia's biodiversity heritage literature to provide free #openaccess online (the Australian branch of @biodivlibrary.bsky.social; a collaboration with the Atlas of Living Australia @csiro.bsky.social). 
Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
Jessica Turtle @jessicaturtle.bsky.social Director, Museum of Homelessness
Content most likely about homelessness, trauma, recovery, living on a boat in London, running a museum, cats etc
Alex Jenson @alexjenson.bsky.social Queer feminist political science PhD candidate at UC Irvine. Studying peace, justice, gender&sexuality, art&museums.
Minnesotan currently residing in SoCal
Lover of books, movies, and cross stitch
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
John Reichenbach @johnreichenbach.bsky.social Journaliste, conférencier, auteur ☘️COMPRENDRE LES #IRLANDAIS☘️ Éditions Riveneuve, Paris / Ancien rédacteur en chef France Télévisions, ex ARTE, Europe 1, Radio France et CUEJ (85) /Lille 🇫🇷 Strasbourg 🇪🇺Kehl 🇩🇪/Galway 🇮🇪/Kyiv 🇺🇦 / #Ireland #Irish #Irlande
Maisy-Sky @maisy-sky.bsky.social 🦖 Lover of dinosaurs and Newlyn School paintings 👩💻 Marketing Gal at Penlee House Gallery & Museum 🖼 Runs @arthistorycornwall.bsky.social
Junior Einsteins Science Club® @junioreinsteins.bsky.social Award-winning Science events for kids. Founded Ireland☘️ Scientist, Mum, speaker United Nations 🇺🇳 Fun, messy, screen-free hands-on, STEM fun Ireland 🇮🇪 UK 🇬🇧 Canada 🇨🇦 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Luxembourg 🇱🇺 Ukraine 🇺🇦 International Schools partnerships. Franchise.
Sandris Zeivots @sandrisz.bsky.social Designing meaningful practices to learn and engage | Senior Lecturer
@Sydney_Uni | Meaningful engagement | Co-design | Experiential learning | Learning spaces
Sonja Tiernan @sonjatiernan.bsky.social President Women’s History Association of Ireland. National Coordinator Irish Humanities Alliance, RIA. Fellow Royal Historical Society.
Author books including Eva Gore-Booth biography
She/Her
ORCID: 0000-0003-2409-311X
tiernansonja@gmail.com
Erin @erinmck96.bsky.social Archivist | Currently at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland | HistMed 🧪🩻| Swimmer | Reader | 🇨🇦/🇮🇪/🏴 | ARA Ireland Campaigns Officer | Views my own ✨ She/Her
Louis Duffy Barrett @ldbphotography.bsky.social
📸 Amateur Photographer.
💜Cystic Fibrosis.
🫁Double Lung Transplant in 2018.
☘️Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
Rob Banes @rsb1213.bsky.social Scientist, artist, educator, chef, fisherman, outdoor enthusiast, bookworm, linguist, peacemaker, volunteer, etc. in no particular order.
Please don't ask because I will not date you, I will not send you money, and I will not be your disciple. Thanks.
Hannah Brown @hannahbrown98.bsky.social PhD Researcher - History of Polio Survivors Experiences in NI.
📍 Derry
Museum Guide @museumoffreederry
Social Media/PR @hstmnetworkireland
#FreePalestine 🇵🇸
@courtauld.bsky.social @courtauld.bsky.social 
Jess Bates @jessicabates.bsky.social Research on education, libraries & information. Course Director, Library & Information Mgmt at Ulster (online course). Rathlin Island resident. Coastguard volunteer. Wife and mum.
Dr Emiline Smith @dremilinesmith.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminology at SCCJR @ Uni of Glasgow. https://tinyurl.com/EmilineSmith
Research: cultural & natural resources • crime & harms • justice • oceans.
♡ Vegan ♡ tea ♡ scuba diving.
www.stolenstatues.com
www.oceanculturelife.com
Sam Manning @sammanning88.bsky.social Barry Lyndon fan. Occasionally writes about cinema history, mostly in Northern Ireland. Co-host of the Wonder Cinema Podcast: https://thewondercinema.buzzsprout.com/
Gemma McAdam @g-mcadam.bsky.social We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike 🏳️🌈
Hannah Campbell @hanfrancam.bsky.social Events and Engagement at @uofgarc.bsky.social
@uofglasgow.bsky.social
Emory 🩶 @emory-f8.bsky.social I write dark Victorian fiction and specialize in the long 19th century.
She/Her 🏳️🌈🇪🇸✡️ (I'm always kind)
#writer #historian #Lesbian #sapphic #wlw #Hispanic #feminist #goth #vampires #jpop #bibliophile
NO DMs | Terfs & Narcissists DNI
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Evan Carron-Kee @evancarronkee.bsky.social Research Assistant @esri.ie | Interests in migration, urban sociology, and economics
Dr Lauren Smyth @laurensmytg.bsky.social Historian of child welfare and poverty in early 19th Century Belfast. PhD from QUB and currently working as the historian of Clifton House.
Animals & Society in Bronze Age Europe @ansoc-erc.bsky.social ANSOC is creating a new vision of the Bronze Age with animals as active participants in past social worlds
https://ansoc.net
Funded by the ERC Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Joanna Brück in the School of Archaeology at University College Dublin
The Butter Museum @thebuttermuseum.bsky.social 
Jack Russell @jackru.bsky.social Londoner in Norn Iron | Data Communicator | Humanist | Dad of girls | Glastonbury Pilgrim | Strange Loop | Runner | ENTP
Author of @believethedata.org
Co-founder of @pfie.bsky.social
Carol @glamdatacarol.bsky.social Cultural heritage, data, various opinions (all my own). Folk music & dance on the side.
The Local Mythstorian @elilewislycett.bsky.social Eli Lewis-Lycett is an independent folklorist and history writer from Cheshire - described by the BBC as “one of the definitive voices on Cheshire and Staffordshire folklore."
Visit thelocalmythstorian.com
Ellen Askey @elleaskey.bsky.social ~ currently caring for a collection in a castle ~
Mostly sharing textiles or other weird and wonderful nic knackery
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
Foyle Local History @foylelocalhistory.bsky.social Local Historian. 
Lindsey Earner-Byrne @earner.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin
She/her
Leanne McCormick @leannemccormick.bsky.social Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
Francesco Fragomeni @fragomeni.bsky.social Contemporary daguerreotypist and historian building cameras and working in 19th century photographic processes.
Other apps I barely use:
Instagram.com/FrancescoFragomeni
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Caitlin White @caitwhite.bsky.social Irish Public Historian ▪︎ Feminist ▪︎ Book enthusiast ▪︎ Interested in monuments, memory, democracy & education ▪︎ Research Fellow at Trinity College, Dublin ▪︎ Living in a castle ▪︎
Freya Sackvillle West @fsackvillewest.bsky.social She/her
Conservator
Interested in critical heritage studies, memory and cultural history
Views my own etc.
Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social Historian of 19thC Ireland, QUB. Last book: William Sharman Crawford and Ulster Radicalism (2023); working on politics of Irish land reform and the Tenant League(s). Chair of @Irishhistorians.bsky.social There may also be cats.
George Young @reluctantgeorge.bsky.social Museum and music geek. Of Cumbria, in Manchester. Lead Collections and Exhibitions at Manchester Museum, Trustee at Morecambe Bay Partnership and Museums Association. All views expressed here are mine alone.
Arran Rees @arranjrees.bsky.social Museum data, researcher, cat friend, runner. 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
@publichistoryqub.bsky.social @publichistoryqub.bsky.social 
Gracie Price @magnifyzoology.bsky.social 27, She/Her - Data Officer at Art UK - Creator of #Museum30 - Natural History Nerd - Neurodivergent - (opinions my own)
Lucie Whitmore @luciewhitmore.bsky.social Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
National Coal Mining Museum @ncmme.bsky.social Open Wednesday-Sunday. Visit for a unique all-weather adventure! Meet a miner, explore exhibitions and enjoy the great outdoors.
Explore more: www.ncm.org.uk
Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social Callipygian statues 👍🏛🍑
'Cheeky, Witty, Funny' - The Bookseller;
'Crude' - Daily Express 🤣
(curated by @thehistoryboy.bsky.social & @jackshoulder.bsky.social)
Buy our book here:
linktr.ee/museumbums
Liz Weir @lizstoryteller.bsky.social Storyteller and writer. Storyteller in Residence with Armstrong Storytelling Trust. Owner of Ballyeamon Barn.
Dr Paul Mullan MRIA @pauljmullan01.bsky.social Heritage professional, QUB,TCD, and UU, Royal Irish Academy, weakness for books and Leica cameras.
Tamsin C Russell @tamsincrussell.bsky.social Leader: Changemaker: Ally: Facilitator: Action Learning Facilitator: Mentor: Trainer: Cheerleader: #Museums : #Heritage : #Culture : Realising the potential of others: Keep safe, keep well, keep learning: She/Her
Ulster Wildlife @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social Working to bring nature back in Northern Ireland. Join now and together we can make a difference www.ulsterwildlife.org/join
Sean O’Connell @seanoconnellqub.bsky.social Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast. Co-Chair of the Truth Recovery Independent Panel on Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland, 1922-1995.
Paula McFetridge @paulamcfetridge.bsky.social Artistic Director of Kabosh theatre company based in Belfast
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.
Abigail Wincott @abigailwincott.bsky.social Audio journalism and documentaries. Series 2 Past Sounds podcast http://bit.ly/3f1bKyE Co-Editor RadioDoc Review https://ro.uow.edu.au/rdr/
Brian Bridges @bridgesbb.bsky.social Composer/electronic musician/noise-maker/ thinker in sound; Research Director (Music,Drama,Film/Screen&Heritage) and Senior Lecturer (Music/Audio), Ulster Uni, Magee (Derry); Dubliner in Derry, views mine own!
Ida Milne @idamilne.bsky.social Historian unashamedly obsessive about anything to do with 1918-19 flu pandemic. Or weissbier. Also interested in history ofepidemics, vaccination, southern Irish Protestant identity, newspapers, oral history, current affairs…and I love good company.
Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social Irish heritage, folklore, vernacular architecture and landscape. Author of books. Contributor to RTE Brainstorm. Lecturer ATU. Views my own.
https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Sam Guthrie @samuelguthrie.bsky.social Public/oral historian, working with community & placemaking in Belfast. Former projects inc. British Red Cross, Ionad na Fuiseogie, St Matthew's 150th, & Mid Ulster Council.
Currently researching & writing about postmemory & identity thru rugby league.
Kat Hinkel @kathinkel.bsky.social Immersive Theater creator & writer, speculative fiction author, Corgi lover <3
Carry Somers @carrysomers.bsky.social 📗The Nature of Fashion, published by Chelsea Green/Rizzoli
👗 Founder Fashion Revolution & League of Artisans
✍️Agent Julia Silk/Greyhound Literary
Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/