Scottish History
Bringing together historians, art historians, literary historians, music historians, and archaeologists of Scottish material: any time and approach. Please reply to be added!
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@bryonycoombs.bsky.social
@davidworthington.bsky.social
Historian. Manager. Interim Dean, Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Business and Education, University of the Highlands and Islands. https://www.uhi.ac.uk/en/about-uhi/senior-management/professor-david-worthington/
@campaignbear.bsky.social
Musicologist and rights-based ranter— Follow me for both, and banter. Antiracist — Antifascist — Ask me about history — Never Again Is Now 🏴 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
@musicascotica.bsky.social
Musica Scotica promotes the scholarly study and performance of Scottish music and musicians. https://musicascotica.scot/
@tourscotland.bsky.social
Tour Guide and videographer https://youtube.com/tourscotland and you are welcome to visit and subscribe My Blog https://tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/ On Pinterest https://uk.pinterest.com/tourofscotland/
@drleith.bsky.social
English Prof @SFUenglish; Director @sfuscottishstudies; #18thc.; early #19thc; #bookhistory; #culturalmemory; early #circus; amateur #trad musician
@fd-scotland.bsky.social
Frederick Douglass' visit to Scotland 1846 and related matters, based on my book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2018. https://www.bulldozia.com/douglass-in-scotland/the-book/ Posts by @bulldozia.com #SlaveryArchive
@ailsaboyd.bsky.social
Victorian art history, design, literature, house history, Scottish heritage #retrofirst
@sallytuckett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
@stevenrobb.bsky.social
Heritage watchdog. Interests in architecture, Edinburgh, inter-war social housing and obscure late Jacobite and nonjuring history. All views my own.
@bloominell.bsky.social
Social/health/history researcher+academic, recording lives of working class girls who died in Industrial Schools. Feminist. Socialist. Writer. Knitter. Glaswegian. Survivor of chronic illness and acute disease. Always tired, yet miraculously still here.
@mchapelproject.bsky.social
Christian; Historian of work and trade; Bonnetmakers; Surgeons; Palaeography; author of Building Early Modern Edinburgh; Trying to learn Latin...
@megalithic.bsky.social
Megaliths and✨SO MUCH✨more. Browse our🗿WORLDWIDE 📜 ancient site 🗺️ map/database/gallery. 🪨 Early Prehistory🏺to 1100CE 🏛️ Andy B posting✨ Main site: https://www.megalithic.co.uk Everything else: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/linktree/
@downham.bsky.social
Medievalist, Liverpool. She/Her. Author of ‘Medieval Ireland’ (Cambridge University Press) ‘Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland’ (Liverpool University Press) currently commissioned for a Penguin Classics volume on the Viking Age
@bobmarshall.co.uk
Edinburgh-based architectural illustrator and 3D reconstruction artist. #Blender3D Pro. Member: Society of Architectural Illustrators (MSAI), Scottish Castles Association, Caithness Broch Project. https://bobmarshall.co.uk
@danielmaclean.bsky.social
Early Medievalist, Pictus obsessus and bronze vessel nerd. 46/282 Munros. With some added Crofting and Common Grazings.
@helenleightonrose.bsky.social
Once a biologist, always an artist. PhD Candidate - Historian of c18th Scottish women & immoral crime in the Borders. Photographer, CAA-certified drone pilot
@kreggallagher.bsky.social
Scottish émigré. Assistant Professor of History at Colby-Sawyer College. Early America, Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World. 🏴🇮🇪🇵🇸 Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
@timetravellingscot.bsky.social
Museums, Scottish History and Archaeology. Bagpiper, reenactor, heritage-worker and out of practice historian
@allanburnett.bsky.social
Academic historian. Apocalyptic imaginaries. Media history. Media and war. Pedagogical and political uses of war memory. Linköping LiU. Author of history books for children & dad of 3.
@nicolemaceira.bsky.social
Historian of early mod animals / hunting & environment / Reformation/ James VI. Teaching Fellow @ University of Edinburgh. Co-organiser @kingjamesconf.bsky.social https://strathclyde.academia.edu/nicolemaceira
@timothyslonosky.bsky.social
Humanities, Dawson College. Reformation and Sixteenth Century history, Scotland and elsewhere. Occasional poster, views my own of course.
@creutcke.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellow in British Studies, Univ of Utah She/Her Clandestine Catholic print in the Restoration!
@sarahceross.bsky.social
Ahorangi @ Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington | early modern women, poetry, politics | complaint
@cleoocy.bsky.social
AHRC PhD at Stirling/Glasgow/Edinburgh. I work on Scottish Romanticism broadly & Scottish novels in relation to ‘improvement’ specifically, 1800-37. Keen on intertextuality, canonicity, moral philosophy & reading history. BARS ECR Officer. AFHEA. She/her.
@dralexcourtney.bsky.social
#Earlymodern historian Author: James VI, Britannic Prince (Routledge, 2024) Co-editor: James VI & I: Kingship, Government & Religion (Routledge, 2025) Co-editor: Mary Queen of Scots’ lost letters (forthcoming, Routledge) https://bio.site/alexandercourtney
@moffski.bsky.social
Historian of war & society in WWII Scotland/Britain Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan Uni FRHistS Loves sewing, coffee, cycling, and squirrels Out now: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-scottish-society-in-the-second-world-war.html
@millofforesterhill.bsky.social
Blethering about History & Scottish Heritage, Meal Mills, occasional thoughts on Reliability Engineering Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire
@brianmackie.bsky.social
WW2 Clyde history. HMCS Niobe / Royal Canadian Navy. Greenock Morton / In the Community. Slava Ukraini!
@rcpsgheritage.bsky.social
News, events and stories from the library, archive and museum at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow https://heritage.rcpsg.ac.uk/ #histmed #libraries #archives #museums
@antoninewallblues.bsky.social
Archaeologist, PhD student Newcastle/HES: Understanding craft and social practice on the Antonine Wall. Roman Scotland & northern frontiers, social theories of technology, antiquarians. Views own. Books, beer, bikes, barrows, Burnley, bad weather.
@thehistorybits.bsky.social
Historian of Medieval & Women's History. FRHistS. Mum. Yorkshire lass. New book Jan 2025: Scotland's Medieval Queens Blog: Historytheinterestingbits.com Podcast: A Slice of Medieval https://viewauthor.at/SharonBennettConnolly
@dendrochronicle.bsky.social
I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies. https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
@surgeonshall.bsky.social
Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world. Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
@rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social
News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
@rosscrawford.bsky.social
Scriever/writer in Scots/English. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024. PhD in Scottish History from University of Glasgow. Works in heritage. He/him. Views ma ain.
@nikmacdonald.bsky.social
A fan of ginger beer; walking on the beach; thinly spread vegemite on hot, buttered toast; real coffee; writing; theatre; early modern Scottish history; sunsets that leave me breathless; warm hearths on wintry days and warm hearts most every day; cheese.
@phildodds.bsky.social
Cultural and historical geographer and director of the Sound Environment Centre at Lund University, Sweden. Researching music, colonial history, aesthetics, audism, cities, sound, scale, Scotland. https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/philip-dodds
@theurbanhistorian.bsky.social
See the history around you... One-time archaeologist now delivering Heritage Walks, Talks, History Cafes & Genealogy services in Paisley, Renfrewshire 🏴 www.theurbanhistorian.co.uk www.renfrewshireancestors.uk www.discoverrenfrewshireheritage.com
@scotindustria.bsky.social
SIHS promotes the heritage of Scottish industry, past and present. Founded in 1984 by combining the Scottish Society for the Preservation of Historical Machinery and the Scottish Society for Industrial Archaeology. www.sihs.co.uk/
@acsheridan.bsky.social
History PhD at the University of Strathclyde researching social history of council housing in Edinburgh, 1919 - 1999 | Living Rent, Govan and Ibrox branch
@cmaclean.bsky.social
SGSAH PhD student at the University of Glasgow researching Scottish, English and British coins. Details: https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/cameronmaclean/
@jockduncan.bsky.social
Better known as Newbattle at War on 'Twitter' Grandad, amateur filmmaker 🎥 and military historian. Author of Midlothian at War, With a Pick and Rifle and co-author of Only Remembered books. Working on my 4th book Midlothian in WW2 at present.
@danielgilman.bsky.social
Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
@diggermann.bsky.social
Regional Archaeologist for Moray, Aberdeenshire, Angus & Aberdeen City Councils, Scotland. Happiest when exploring, helping to manage our heritage as best I can! All views my own.
@deborahsimonton.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
@breerob-kirk.bsky.social
Musician and musicologist obsessed with 18th-century singers.
@matthewlee88.bsky.social
Did a PhD on Scotland and Atlantic slavery. Working in the third sector. Attempting to escape from the Twitter hellscape
@fortrenn.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Glasgow, researching the early medieval Moray Firthlands in Scotland. Live in Penryn, Cornwall. FSAScot. Posts about early medieval Scottish history and archaeology. Blog: https://fortrenn.substack.com
@drmabibby.bsky.social
Horses, history, books, growing vegetables, reading, writing, editing, broadcasting. And a bit of sitting about. Equine historian and champion of the Galloway Nag. Co-editor Cheiron, the International Journal of Equine and Equestrian History.
@robyneerica.bsky.social
Cultural Historian: art, design, architecture, fashion. Author: The Mack @YaleBooks; Academic & Learning Developer (SLD) @UofGlasgow. Feminist & aspire to be a good Ally. Sewist 🪡🧵 Kdrama Addict🫰and GenX Nerd 🧙🏻♀️👻☕️ she/her https://robynecalvert.com/
@sartoriusdoctor.bsky.social
Lecturer in Scots Private Law. Legal scholar/historian/theorist and teacher of Scots/Roman law. A fun fellow, in spite of every single word that has preceded this sentence.
@physiciansgallery.bsky.social
A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Sign up to our newsletter www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter
@walktalktours.bsky.social
Discovering Glasgow, it’s hidden Southside, West End and beyond. Celebrating 850 www.walktalktours.uk Insta: @walktalktours1 T/X @tours_talk
@paulmalgrati.bsky.social
Franco-Scot 🇫🇷🏴| Lecturer in Scottish culture and literature at the University of the Highlands and Islands | Poetry, Politics, Metaphysics
@emilyhay.bsky.social
PhD researcher looking at the textual legacy of Mary Queen of Scots at University of Glasgow 👩🏼🦰 📝 SGSAH Digital Curator 2024-2025 🖥️ She/her https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/emilyhay/#
@mcinrob.bsky.social
Scottish writer Bob and Annie Kelty Scottish historical crime series - Cuddies Strip, Barossa Street, Moot. Barvick Falls forthcoming spring 2025 Burials and Other Stories launch Nov 27th 2024 www.robmcinroy.co.uk
@yorkhillyankee.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @ Edinburgh Uni. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. No, I don't know 1978's top goalscorer for Partick Thistle. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
@eyjarskeggi.bsky.social
PhD in Scottish island constitutional politics and governance. Also do things with @EuropeElects, @ShetlandElects, @HistoryofElections and @ScotHistNetwork, or can be found staring at the sky. Shetlander, autistic. He/him
@rdtree.bsky.social
Historian of early modern Scotland primarily interested in politics, government & coal mining.
@scottlyall.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Modern and Scottish Literature at Edinburgh Napier University. Writes about Scottish interwar literary revival and modernism. Co-edits 𝘚𝘤𝘰𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘓𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸. https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/scott-lyall
@macltoons.bsky.social
Historian. Cartoonist. Atheist. Scot. Author of 'The Second Disruption,' 'Evansville in WW2’, 'The Cartoons of KK Knecht' and 'Lost Evansville" and wrote the documentary ’Evansville at War.’ He/Him🏳️🌈
@timothycbaker.bsky.social
Lectures on Scottish and contemporary literature, writes about animals, tries to be hopeful. He/they. Currently trying to open a cinema in Aberdeen.
@ginorgym.bsky.social
Living two lives! 😇Full time carer 🎓Post grad student (MPhil) at Uni of Glasgow looking at the work of Edwin Muir, his life writing & time in Glasgow. Gin drinker, avid reader, self confessed Scottish Literature geek Older than I look but not wiser 🤪
@julieh80.bsky.social
Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
@rusticulus-reguli.bsky.social
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, History, University of St Andrews Own lefty views Iron Age, late antique, medieval, early-modern archaeologist ⁊ historian; toponomist, sociologist, cartographer, copy-editor; ❤ cats ⁊ books sé/he/il/er/han
@bibliophisla.bsky.social
☞ PhD Candidate with Innerpeffray Library and Stirling University. Researching nineteenth-century visitors' books, borrowing records, and library history. Book and cat lover. She/her.
@linda83ross.bsky.social
Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
@thebadasshistorian.bsky.social
Not a real badass or historian Monument Manager Tantallon Castle Film/TV battle scene veteran Outlander chameleon S1-6 I love quirky tv, unusual films, catchy choruses, history, nature
@classicalalan.bsky.social
Historian, artist, tour guide and FSAScot. A lover of legend and folklore. Order my book 'Walking the Antonine Wall' here: http://rb.gy/y8eyyi
@euanhealey.bsky.social
PhD historian and archaeologist of labour, subsistence and environment (and fish) at Uni of Glasgow. Antifascist & trade unionist. Baggies, Jags, Warriors, Canucks. Pilgrim through this barren land. he/him.
@northernstudies.bsky.social
The Scottish Society for Northern Studies (SSNS) was founded in 1968 to explore the inter-relationships between the Scandinavian, Celtic, and Scottish cultures. https://ssns.org.uk
@scottishhistory.org
Online publication covering Scottish history, heritage and archaeology. Featuring articles, reviews, latest book releases, places to visit, events and more. Published in Ayrshire. Posts by @neilritchie.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present. https://asls.org.uk
@sghetorg.bsky.social
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
@claireelder.bsky.social
@SGSAH funded PhD researcher @UofGEnglishLang | EM Scots letters | historical pragmatics | Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar | palaeography | dogs!
@huntingrebels.bsky.social
Mary, Queen of Scots | Annas Keith | Lady Anne Percy | Scottish Women Letter-Writers 1480-1625 | Affiliate UofGlasgow History | Lit Agent The Viney Agency https://www.waterstones.com/book/captive-queen/dr-jade-scott/9781789296464 Also: dogs, horses, books
@pomuirch.bsky.social
Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean
@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@kmccullo.bsky.social
Historian of modern Scottish history/Atlantic world and Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Settler on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. First Nations claims researcher.
@sheilaghquaile.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC #textiles, #design, and #art; #Scotland, #Britain, and the #BritishEmpire. • Adjunct Prof., University of Prince Edward Island. • Writing a book on #Paisley design for Edinburgh University Press.
@theorkneynews.bsky.social
An online independent media from the islands of Orkney. Not for profit company. https://theorkneynews.scot/
@wilcocksonamy.bsky.social
Research Assistant - 'The Works of Robert Fergusson: Reconstructing Textual and Cultural Legacies', University of Glasgow Communications Officer - BARS PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell (she/her)
@curioustravellers.bsky.social
‘Curious Travellers 2: Digital Editions of Thomas Pennant’s Tours of Wales and Scotland’. An AHRC-funded research project (CAWCS, University of Glasgow, Natural History Museum London) Histories of Enlightenment Travel https://curioustravellers.ac.uk/en/
@roslynpotter.bsky.social
Scottish Lit PhD (SGSAH) and GTA at UofGlasgow // early modern women’s writing, song culture & medicine 📜 she/her 🎶 aspiring broadcaster 📻 https://bio.site/roslynpotter
@rdwglass.bsky.social
Stained Glass Artist. Restoration / Repair / Beginners Classes. Etched Glass. RDW Glass. Dennistoun. Glasgow. Scotland. 🏴 RDW Glass - Rich Welsh, Keira Mclean, Caireen Stuart. www.stainedglass.scot
@historianmairi.bsky.social
Historian at the University of Toronto. Studies medieval Europe, early modern North America, and contemporary pedagogy. Also cooks, knits, and sings. Author of https://www.mqup.ca/possession-of-barbe-hallay--the-products-9780228014041.php
@pamelaahern.bsky.social
Historian of 18thc Scotland | Mary Stuart in 18thc historiography | memory | Hume | Jacobitism | PhD Candidate at UDelaware
@karenmca.bsky.social
Musicologist, Historian, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social IASH Fellow, #AltAc. Social History of Amateur Music-Making & Scottish National Identity: Scotland's Printed Music 1880-1951 (Routledge 2025) https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
@wolfq4.bsky.social
Historian | Archivist | Taphophile | Architecture | Built Heritage | 16-17th century witchcraft in the west of Scotland | Music fan with wanderlust. Personal acct, so views my own! Occasionally random posts https://archivisthistoryblog.wordpress.com/home/
@fraserraeburn.bsky.social
Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
@jimambuske.bsky.social
Historian of the American Revolution | Co-Head R2 Studios | Narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down | Digital Humanist | Scotland Enthusiast www.r2studios.org
@markrustbucket.bsky.social
My career is in ruins. Industrial heritage, Scotland and beyond. #TICCIH #IHBC