Dr Laura Gray Blair
Research Manager, Science Museum Group • rare books cataloguer, National Trust • Honorary Fellow, UCL • PhD on bibliotherapy in c.19th asylums • views own
@bkidd.bsky.social
PhD candidate in HPS @UCL. Research in: Registers of value in early science and natural history collecting | & | Applications of knowledge graphs in education technology
@museumpierrette.bsky.social
Conservator managing Museum, Archive & Aquarium 🐟 collections at Bolton Museum. Sharing my Cat, Books 📚(often Queer fantasy 🏳️🌈), Museums, Suede 🎶, beautiful & interesting science. I read a lot. Deaf 🧏♀️ with Endometriosis 🩷💜💙 She/Her 🇪🇺
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome. https://thepolyphony.org/
@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)
@saradominici.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at the University Westminster, UK | Historian of photography & visual culture | Writing a book on the photographic darkroom 1850s-1910s I Editor at Visual Culture in Britain https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/researcher/886x9?sec
@jessbutler.bsky.social
Lead Data Scientist, NHS Grampian + Senior Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen Trying to do useful things with big, messy, high-security data. Huge nerd for open science and public health https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/people/profiles/jessicabutler
@magdlibandarch.bsky.social
Magdalen College, Oxford has a large circulating library, a significant early printed & manuscript books collection, and an extensive archive.
@asciampacone.bsky.social
Lecturer at The Open University. Art Historian interested in 19thC to 20thC British art and visual culture, disease, climate, empire, and air pollution, as well as museum studies and the legacies of empire in collections.
@owentg.bsky.social
He/him. Historian particularly interested in vaccination and rural radicalism. Doing comms for a charity tackling health inequity. Also posting museums, folk music, food, books, faith and social justice. Personal account, own views. 📍 Gloucestershire, UK.
@hamishdarrah.bsky.social
Archaeological wood analyst. PhD in Late Bronze Age toolkits at the University of Leicester & the National Museums Scotland. Works primarily with @dendrochronicle.bsky.social
@vickiblud.bsky.social
Medievalist / writer / editor (she/her. KingsManorGhost on the bird app) Commissioning editor for @amsterdamupress.bsky.social (medieval studies | hagiography | premodern medicine and disability | histories of punishment | song studies)
@ceebarnacles.bsky.social
☞ Early print ¶ book history ¶ social circumstances around #rarebooks ¶ omnia sunt communia 🖤 researching the early printed books and incunabula of John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870). Still think I should have been a sailor.
@petedickinson.bsky.social
Director of Communications at the Science Museum Group, home to six inspiring sites and hundreds of talented colleagues. Views my own.
@cromwellmuseum.bsky.social
World's best collection of items on life & times of Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658), telling his story 'warts and all'. "National Museum in a Matchbox". Huntingdon, UK www.cromwellmuseum.org
@uclioabmmedieval.bsky.social
Monthly term-time seminar about the medieval world, held @uclarchaeology.bsky.social, convened by Professor Andrew Reynolds (UCL) and Dr Sue Brunning (British Museum).
@wellcometrust.bsky.social
Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
@wellcomecollection.bsky.social
A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us. wellcomecollection.org
@ttubhdh.bsky.social
graduate certificate in Book History and Digital Humanities in the English Department at Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/english/programs_degrees/grad_certificates/book_history/index.php
@cardiffbookhistory.bsky.social
Updates on book history, print culture and digital humanities. Tweets do not reflect views of my employer.
@bkhistoxford.bsky.social
Discover History of books projects at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, digital editions at the Taylorian and @BodleianLibraries.bsky.social https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/ Posts by @HLaehnemann.bsky.social & @emmahuber.bsky.social
@alexvont.bsky.social
Historian, screenwriter, 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
@folklorewales.com
Welsh folklorist • Author • Honorary Research Fellow, Amgueddfa Cymru • Antiquarian book collector • Rheibio'n Gymraeg • The Folklore of Wales: Ghosts (2023) • Represented by jonathanclowes.co.uk folklorewales.com
@perons.bsky.social
In search of light, stone, and stories — in churches & chapels, mostly Wales, sometimes over the border🏴 Heritage consultant - churchescymru.org | Commissioner @rcahmwales.bsky.social | Dysgwr Cymraeg
@knightonmuseum.bsky.social
🏴Small social history museum just on the Welsh side of the Powys/Radnorshire-Shropshire border. Dementia-friendly and run by volunteers.🏴 These are the views of our curator - as is the slant towards industrial archaeology and cats. www.knightonmuseum.org
@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴 1908-2016 Used as a military hospital during both World Wars. Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
@rhysowens.bsky.social
Former imperial historian specialising in India and social history. Job market didn't work out so now I am very happily employed working for an MP
@philparkes.bsky.social
Objects conservator, heritage crafts maille maker based in South Wales. Formerly Cardiff University, now freelance doing stuff that I enjoy.
@ystradgynlaishisty.bsky.social
The history of Ystradgynlais and the surrounding area, in the Swansea Valley. Ex part of Breconshire, now Powys. South Wales. This includes the neighbouring town of Ystalyfera, and we also cover the war dead of both areas, as well as the Gough squires
@archaedelle.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Wales 🏴 | Finds Officer based in Amgueddfa Cymru 🏛️ | PhD on Iron Age mortuary practices 🛖 | ADHD: expect typos 🥲 | she/her | all views are mine!
@driestynjones.bsky.social
Presenter, Archaeologist, early medievalist working in Wales - Archeolegydd, canol oeswr cynnar, yn gweithio yng Nghymru Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
@catrees.bsky.social
Archaeologist in North Wales. Currently studying PhD looking at death in Pre-Roman Wales. Other interests include making random stuff and scruffing my hounds.
@sarafoxwales.bsky.social
Historian & archaeologist. Formerly househistorianwales on the other side. Areas of freelance research: houses, gardens, landscapes, people. PhD candidate: 'Wales located women's writing in English & the country house.'
@mark-walters.bsky.social
Archaeologist at Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Environment, Palaeontology, Geology, Astronomy, Art, LiDAR, 3D, 15th-19th c. Fortifications & Industrial Archaeology, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
@davidlawton.bsky.social
PhD student and teaching associate @qmul.ac.uk / Writing a new history of Euroscepticism in Britain, 1975-1997 @ghilondon.bsky.social / Helping organise the Queen Mary Centre for British Studies (QMCBS) @qmcbs.bsky.social / One member of Preen the Band
@orkneylibrary.bsky.social
Books and Archives since 1683. Website: orkneylibrary.org.uk Linktree: linktr.ee/orkneylibrary
@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: www.museumbums.com
@adamkoszary.bsky.social
Talking about museums and galleries and archives and museums and culture and my dog Keith and sometimes other stuff. Did absolute unit sheep. Accept money for labour etc. https://www.adamkoszary.co.uk/
@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
@drmorgan.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Heritage & MSc Heritage Programme Director, University of Stirling. Own views. UK / NZ. Museums, ethnography, emotional labour, collecting, methods. https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/265599
@davidhingley.bsky.social
Head of Arts, Heritage and Culture at Peridot. Trustee at Painshill Park and Museum of the Broads - with previous form running visitor experience at Tate Galleries, Hampton Court Palace, Landmark Trust and BOP Consulting BEM for queues
@charlotteslark.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary scholar working on museums, bureaucracy & structural inequality. Post doc Research Fellow for @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social she/her
@sachacoward.bsky.social
LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention. http://www.unbound.com/books/queer-as-folklore/