Fergus Smith
Legal history, historical data geekery, genealogy. Owner of oldscottish.com. Historical Records Specialist at FindMyPast.co.uk. All views my own, obviously. Lives in St Andrews, Fife
@recordstoredayuk.bsky.social
Record Store Day celebrates the culture of indie record shops Sign up for our RSD Newsletter👇 https://recordstoredayuk.carrd.co/
@assaiedinburgh.bsky.social
Vinyl • Turntables • Merch • Live Events • Open 7 days (excluding holidays) at 1 Grindlay Street 🏴
@assaiglasgow.bsky.social
Vinyl • Turntables • Merch • Live Events • Open 7 days (excluding holidays) at 233 Sauchiehall Street 🏴
@frontiers2025.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary conference on frontiers, 11-12 July 2025 @tlrhub.bsky.social, @tcddublin.bsky.social. Organised by @pduffy1.bsky.social. Call for papers deadline 31 March 2025. Abstracts and enquiries to pduffy1@tcd.ie.
@profccostello.bsky.social
Full Prof of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, UCD; ex-Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; ex-Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Berlin. Recent return migrant after two decades.
@printersofscotland.bsky.social
A collective of printmakers from across Scotland - working together to develop and share printmaking. Festival of Printmaking 15-17 Aug 2025. University of Stirling. www.printmakersofscotland.com
@jtpmedieval.bsky.social
Restless medievalist • Professor at St Andrews, Scotland • Apocalypse/ Nature/ Science/ Medicine c. 500-c. 1000
@aoc.bsky.social
Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com
@pduffy1.bsky.social
@researchireland.bsky.social PhD candidate @historytcd.bsky.social. O'Connellite politics and the emergence of a north-south frontier, 1823-45. Opinions mine. pduffy1@tcd.ie orcid.org/0000-0002-6049-1089 irishhistorians.ie/members/patrick-barry-duffy/
@wendychambld.bsky.social
Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife 🔶 Chief Whip Shinty player 🔶 Wendy.Chamberlain.mp@parliament.uk she/her
@loadaigh99.bsky.social
Neach ionnsachadh Gàidhlig, doric spikken, dons fan. Doing a PhD on labour in 20th C. rural Scotland
@saracaputo.bsky.social
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
@richardtbellis.bsky.social
Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Associate Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
@paulbernal.bsky.social
Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Politics. Wolves. Irish and British.
@royalhistsoc.org
The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of historians: https://royalhistsoc.org/
@davidveevers.bsky.social
Lecturer in Early Modern History | colonialism and global history | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | 'miasma enthusiast' - The Critic | 'belligerent academic' - The Daily Mail | tired dad | academia’s longest commute
@dirleton.bsky.social
Castle reconstruction Artist. Medieval reenactor #ManAtArms #DirletonCastle
@the-bibliosmiac.bsky.social
𝙼𝙰 𝙰𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝 & 𝙼𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 @𝙴𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚋𝚞𝚛𝚐𝚑 𝙷𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚗𝚎𝚛𝚍 (𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝/𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕/𝚖𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚟𝚊𝚕). 𝙸 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍. 𝙸 𝚌𝚘𝚘𝚔. 𝙸 𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚘 𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚏𝚏. 𝙸 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔. 𝙸 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚏𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚜, 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚜. 𝙲𝚢𝚗𝚒𝚌𝚊𝚕 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚌𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚌. 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛 𝚎𝚡𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚘𝚛𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚎.
@siobhanmup.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
@kingjamesconf.bsky.social
Conference to mark the Quatercentenary of King James VI&I's death 9-11 July 2025, Glasgow (Scotland) https://understandingjames.wixsite.com/kingjamesconf
@criminalgenie.bsky.social
Love to research ancestors and the criminal sorts! #Mom #Daughter #Genealogist #Paralegal #Podcaster #HistoryLover #CriminalAncestors #Crime #TrueCrime #Storytelling
@brucerennie.bsky.social
Music obsessed, Developer, one time Astrophysicist, frequent guitar botherer, attempted songwriter, not rich enough to be classed eccentric, so probably just your common or garden nutter.
@essentiallogic.bsky.social
Official Blue Sky account for the band Essential Logic & Lora Logic – co-founder of X-Ray Spex 🖤🎷 . New album ‘Rekalibrated’ + 'Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?) [Deluxe]' - Out Now!
@kirchmeier.bsky.social
Law professor, CUNY Law School. Author of "Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McClesky, Race, and the American Death Penalty" about the history of capital punishment. Criminal law, social justice, etc. he/him.
@aaronjacklin.bsky.social
Criminology Journalist MA, Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy Subscribe: The Art of Explaining Crime, aaronjacklin.substack.com; The Practice of Understanding Crime, thepracticeofunderstandingcrime.substack.com. Mod: reddit.com/r/CriminologyJournalism
@humbledore.bsky.social
Archivist, researcher, genealogist Interests: History (mainly Great Lakes, Home Front, maritime transport, Naval, Canadian & Indigenous, Ethiopian, Austrian, and general military history) and also archaeology. Newly dry.
@socialistdogdad.bsky.social
EIS Union Rep✊ Aberdonian🩶Proud gay man 🏳️🌈Dog dad.🐕Democratic Socialist🚩Scottish Labour🌹 ENFP🎉 Teacher📚 Gaymer🕹️Gothic lit and film 🦇 Views my own☕️
@carllandauer.bsky.social
Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies. Lawyer, international legal historian, cultural historian, and contributing editor to Berkeley-based "Poetry Flash." https://berkeley.academia.edu/CarlLandauer
@perthwomenwiki.bsky.social
Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways! Posts by Gill Perth, Scotland
@aldochlay.bsky.social
PhD Study @uofgasbs.bsky.social | Wellbeing at Work | Trainee Renaissance Man | Occasional Baker of Cakes | Local History Aficionado All views my own as, well, they are in my head, not yours. http://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/briangilchrist
@helenkingstone.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London. I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations.
@alicekrzanich.bsky.social
Legal historian interested in: women & law, social & cultural history, and doctrinal developments.
@annashi.bsky.social
Music maker, historian of 17th century popular culture, print, astrology, magic and politics.
@holledge.bsky.social
Private a/c. Edinburgh citizens/residents organisations member. Pro devolved & empowered local democracy. Upland conservation management. European. Tōfu & opera lover. Born at 310 ppm. 🏴🇪🇺🇯🇵🇨🇳🇭🇰 #SaveEdinbugh
@simonprestn.bsky.social
Dad, Chair Drummond High School Parent Council, Fundraiser Sea Cadets Leith, Vice Chair Friends of Montgomery St Park, Treasurer Calton Hill Conservation Trust, Member Leith Central Community Council
@richard-holt.bsky.social
I’m a professional genealogist and also tutor for Pharos Tutors. #Genealogy
@infrastructuregeek.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Co-editor, Environment and History. The environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Author of Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain.
@eandhwhp.bsky.social
An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
@bobmaclean.bsky.social
Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections
@cowan-lisacowan.bsky.social
Legal historian @UofELawSchool; attorney; Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, Roman law.
@donalcoffey.bsky.social
Constitutional law, legal history. Assistant Prof in Maynooth University, Ireland.
@legalhistoryed.bsky.social
The Centre encourages the study of legal history, with particular attention to Scots and Roman law. https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-networks/centre-for-legal-history
@baersafari.bsky.social
Historian, digital humanist, & community advocate. University of Guelph PhD candidate. AskHistorians moderator. Researching how language shapes power, gender, & identity. She/her
@sandbergrlaw.bsky.social
Professor of Law at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Writes on Legal History & Law and Religion with focus on marriage law and education law reform. https://linktr.ee/sandbergrlaw
@dennynews.bsky.social
Deputy political editor, Daily Record. Reporting from across Scotland. Story? chris.mccall@reachplc.com