Material Culture
A starter pack for people interested in material culture from all disciplinary perspectives.
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@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
@aliciamihalic.bsky.social
Dress and textile historian | c19th/c20th visual and material culture, revivals, and vernacular discourses 🧶
@wordsmith.bsky.social
Professor, @UoYEnglish. Printer, @thinicepress. Opinions mainly culled from the dustier corners of the sixenteenth century.
@austendress.bsky.social
What did Jane Austen wear? Delve into the clothing of one of the world’s great authors. Also: Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion, 2019. By Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social, published by @YaleBooks London
@archaeoplays.bsky.social
They/them. Disabled/chronically ill Minecraft YouTuber, & digital archaeologist (alias: Dr. Heather Christie). Also early medieval Scotland specialist and glass bead nerd. Lead Researcher for Carved in Stone. Business enquiries: archaeoplays@gmail.com
@rococo-reinette.bsky.social
Budding art historian fond of material culture and monarchical histories. Looking to move to the UK permanently soon, hopefully to pursue an MA in Historic Interiors & Decorative Arts. Also love English country houses, natural history, and tornadoes. 👑🦔🌪️🌷🐇
@lauraggascon.bsky.social
Historian & researcher | Early Modern • Gender studies • Cultural history • Literary sources
@yagosparra.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Santiago de Compostela. PhD in Ancient Sciences. Epigraphy and Roman public buildings. Hispania + North Africa + Galliae.
@amberburbidge.bsky.social
Early Modern PhD researcher | EUI History | premodern race-making in material culture | currently at EHESS | decolonisation | race | gender | intersectional | global history | 17c | 18c |heritage | Uni of York alumni 🏳️🌈
@leoniehannan.bsky.social
Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture. Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
@aldenobrien.bsky.social
Dress/social historian. Passionately pro-democracy. Cat fosterer. 🔵 Nuff said for now.
@emilyfuggle.bsky.social
Freelance Curator • Exhibitions/Collections Management • Specialising in museums, exile and migration / émigré artists • PhD Research at Ben Uri Gallery and Queen Mary on the Women (curators, donors…) of Ben Uri
@katestrasdin.bsky.social
Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
@amyeelkins.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English; author of Crafting Feminism from Literary Modernism to the Multimedia Present (OUP, 2022) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/crafting-feminism-from-literary-modernism-to-the-multimedia-present-9780192857835?cc=us&lang=en& 🌈
@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/
@carozqueta.bsky.social
Historian, curator, and writer interested in the transdisciplinary intersections of art, nature, science, and technology; energies in the arts; and the history of medicine.
@hannahgreig.bsky.social
Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London. Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
@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
@historymatt.bsky.social
Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
@elisabethgernerd.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ De Montfort University * The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World * Dress History, Satirical Prints, Georgian Sartorial Culture
@kirbyrachel.bsky.social
American Studies PhD and folklorist. Southerner in New England. I like people, places, and things. And cheese. Probably thinking about Mr. Peanut. www.rachelckirby.com
@achatenetc.bsky.social
Rennaise Maîtresse de conférences en Histoire moderne 18e siècle Genre Culture matérielle et consommation Cour de France #ESR
@loreandordure.com
Smallholder, writer, erstwhile vetn'ry, PhD student, ADHD+, trainee lexicographer & alleged Pratchett witch. Photographer and digital/analogue miniaturist. Long Covid victim. She/they. Writes at https://loreandordure.com/ 🐘 @antinomy@prattle.org.uk
@mtwht.bsky.social
Researching religious minorities in eighteenth-century London; sitting by lakes. QMUL and Tampere University
@drawingbloodpod.bsky.social
A podcast about art & visual culture, the histories of science & medicine, and the macabre. Hosted by Christy Slobogin (@slobogin.bsky.social) and Emma Merkling (@emmamerkling.bsky.social)
@liminalnostolgia.bsky.social
YOUR NEW LIMINAL & NOSTALGIA INSPIRATION HUB. Please message me submissions. Personal account: https://bsky.app/profile/sadpellegrino.bsky.social
@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/
@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.
@halleoneal.bsky.social
Japanese art history, Co-Director of Edinburgh Buddhist Studies. Reuse/recycling, paper, palimpsests, fragments. Book: Word Embodied (Harvard 2018) Edited vol: Reuse, Recycle, and Repurpose: The Afterlives of Japanese Material Culture (Ars Orientalis 2023)
@jenhoward.bsky.social
Writer, editor, journalist. Book and nature lover. Author, CLUTTER: AN UNTIDY HISTORY. Words in WaPo, TLS, NYT, LARB, CHE, EdSurge, etc. She/her. Signal: jenhoward.16 Newsletter: https://jenniferhoward.substack.com/
@akpavlick.bsky.social
Roman archaeologist (archaic central Italy, domestic religion, Pompeii), Adjunct Prof @ Xavier, UMass Amherst/Tufts/Cincinnati. Wine, whiskey/bourbon, burritos, Red Sox, Bruins, 1 excellent tuxedo cat, maybe a few other interests thrown into the mix
@drsyntax.bsky.social
Scholar & Writer. Professing 18th & 19th c. literature, Romanticism, disability, book history, bookbinding, and comics. PhD @PennEnglish https://www.coloradocollege.edu/basics/contact/directory/people/richman_jared_s.html
@carolynaday.bsky.social
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
@mjrp.bsky.social
a historian(ish) currently writing a book about how visitors, newcomers, and outsiders came to dominate Washington, DC and another book about how we do history now. https://linktr.ee/comingtowashington
@bretdevereaux.bsky.social
Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring. Blogs at acoup.blog
@archaeocarrie.bsky.social
Asst Prof Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology @ St Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan - Egyptologist - wooden coffins, women, digital games. She/her
@spoonsontrays.bsky.social
Deputy Chief Curator & Head of Engagement @UKParliament. Trustee @OldOpTheatre. Art & Science #FRSA. Keeper #MuseumofShadows All opinions my own. www.spoonsontrays.com
@elliemackinroberts.net
Slow runner. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat. https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
@triciamatthew.bsky.social
Teapot Queen | patriciamatthew.com Race and Regency Lab | raceandregency.org
@mjrsangster.bsky.social
Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
@rummage.bsky.social
Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) UEA Associate Prof at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats. Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
@bocadelperro.bsky.social
Disgruntled historian of 17th century German religion and material culture in the San Francisco area. I have a kid, a corgi and a garden. All typos are due to Titivillus, who has possessed my autocorrect.
@annamyers.bsky.social
Art Historian | People + their Things | PhD in Shakespeare + c18 | Teaching Fellow @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
@susannah-lw.bsky.social
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on queens and nature | PhD, Art History, Catherine of Braganza | Art History, English, nature, plants
@tudorfoodrecipe.bsky.social
Tudor food historian & author. Living the life of an accomplished Tudor housewife from a small Tudor Manor. Book: Eating with the Tudors. Early Modern History MA @UEA.
@cjfaraday.bsky.social
Historian of Art & Ideas at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge | FSA FRHistS | BBC New Generation Thinker | Host of British Art Matters podcast | Trustee of The Walpole Society | 📗 Tudor Liveliness out with Yale Books now | 🥦👻🎻 views own
@dralexiswolf.bsky.social
Editor. Researcher. Writer. Eighteenth-century & Nineteenth-century, Romanticism, Women's Literary History & Creative Nonfiction (memoir & biography). She/her. Pacific NW person living in Sussex. www.alexiswolf.co.uk
@richardacarter.bsky.social
Academic in Digital Culture, University of York, UK. Exploring digital art, literature, and storytelling; ecology, materiality, and the more-than-human. Glider pilot. https://richardacarter.com/
@pamelaclemit.bsky.social
Professor of Humanities, QMUL | Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Oxford | General Editor of the OUP Letters of William Godwin | Writer on the edge | Northumbrian I Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
@curatorrachel.bsky.social
Senior #Curator, #NationalTrust | Decorative art, contemporary craft and long C18th material culture | #Ceramics specialist | Researching amateur making and women artists | Northerner | she/her
@robertpaulett.bsky.social
Historian of early America and bits of Britain. Apostate southerner. Yells about maps, St. Louis, and higher ed.
@reedgochberg.bsky.social
Museum curator and cultural historian. Associate Curator and Director of Exhibitions, Concord Museum. Author, Useful Objects (OUP, 2021). All views my own. https://reedgochberg.com
@sethrockman.bsky.social
Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html
@smeadleonard.bsky.social
Art historian, PhD. Victorian #MaterialCulture and #HistoricLandscapes, that kind of thing.
@buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
Buddhist material culture in media for Western audiences, including prints, photos, ephemera, &c. Digital public scholarship project curated by Peter Romaskiewicz, PhD (@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social) 🗺 buddhasinthewest.com 🌟 New Posts: Mon, Wed, & Fri
@peterromaskiewicz.bsky.social
Historian of Chinese Religions & Chinese Buddhism, interest in smell culture & aromatics; recent hummingbird whisperer, belated powerlifter, curator of Buddhas in the West Material Archive @buddhasinthewest.bsky.social
@michaeljsullivan.bsky.social
Literary critic at University of Oxford, St Catherine's College | Poetics | Transnational drift of verse forms | Digital Humanities & Digital Editing | General Editor, OUP Complete Works of Tennyson. Views are my own. www.michaeljsullivan.net
@nicolebelolan.bsky.social
consulting public historian | historian of disability & material culture | cat mom & native plant mom | house restorer | local Green Team Chair | antique lover | not complying! | views my own
@hottycouture.bsky.social
Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
@fancyhistorian.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle Uni | Historian of Leisure, Fashion, & Commercialisation | 📖 ‘Domino’ CUP 2023 | 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 | Mother runner, coffee enthusiast.
@drkatieturner.bsky.social
Historian: 1st Century Material Culture | New Testament Reception | Religion & Pop-Culture | Clothing, Costume, Film Co-Host: www.GodsAndMoviemakers.com More about me: www.KatieTurnerPhD.com
@garethknapman.bsky.social
Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
@alana-m-vincent.net
Historian of Religion. Migrant (currently based in Finland). Bad at gender, worse at writing bios, absolutely incapable of refraining from profanity. I do stuff involving religion and literature and genocide, usually all at once.
@lhaasis.bsky.social
Senior Researcher | German Maritime Museum Leibniz Institute for Maritime History Former Research Coordinator | Prize Papers Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
@kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social
Doctoral Researcher NT & OU | PhD global/East Asian material culture @ Stuart Ham House | MPhil, Cambridge - tobacco, Indigenous/African knowledge/labour in English Atlantic pre-TAST | BA Early America & British social history | KerryApps.com
@jordanmitchellking.bsky.social
Dress historian. Working on a PhD on 18thc undress at DMU, interested in all things embodiment, material culture and reconstruction. Some videos of stuff I like to do! https://youtube.com/@JordanMitchellking?si=2vWTfAUTp0Qo_Bwf
@susancogan.bsky.social
Historian at Utah State Uni | Researching medieval/early modern grandparents & grandchildren, gardens, gender, material culture. Border collie mom, northwoods girl.
@dublinseminar.bsky.social
Annual conference and publication exploring the folklife of New England and the neighboring regions, founded in 1976 and now meeting each summer at Historic Deerfield
@bethanyjoanna.bsky.social
Ph.D. Candidate (New Testament), Wheaton College | Dissertating on female patronage & benefaction in Greco-Roman world & Southern Levant | Epigraphy & Material Culture
@octobeth.bsky.social
historian of science at Brock University standing up for the spineless
@evelynwelch.bsky.social
Renaissance and early modern material culture. Writing on skin, dogs with earrings, and some of the other more surprising oddities of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe. All posts my own personal views.
@jennyrichards.bsky.social
Researches rhetoric, history of reading, voice & reading. Edits too. Chair of English Association. Leads The Thomas Nashe Project and The Bee-ing Human Project. Lives in Newcastle, works in Cambridge: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Jennifer.Richards
@madraspondy.bsky.social
History ABD at Duke Writing a diss on consumer spaces and material culture in early modern Madras & Pondicherry 🍷🖼️🌴 This year I don't have summer funding. Support my writing here: https://ko-fi.com/confettura
@danrhan.bsky.social
(they/he) PhD candidate in anthropology and archaeology @ the University of Chicago. Picts, "heritage," identity, early medieval Scotland. Enthusiastic about places. Reluctant Europeanist. Website: danrhan.com
@ehlyons.bsky.social
Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort. Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD. Website: emmalyons.ie
@lemoustier.bsky.social
Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy 📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art 🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined 🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool 1/4 TrowelBlazers Rep: PEW Literary
@archaeomatty.bsky.social
Archaeologist at TU Darmstadt. Mainly metals. Mainly corroded iron. Author of undramatic archaeology reports. Previously published as Matasha McConchie. For the Jebel Khalid archive, see https://jebelkhalid.arts.unimelb.edu.au/
@jensnotroff.com
#Archaeologist🏺, got a hat (no whip though). Once known as "Yunus" among Bedouins. Demanding a revival of the venerable profession of the #ExpeditionPainter👨🎨. 🔗 jensnotroff.com
@megannutzman.bsky.social
Assoc Prof at ODU; PhD in Classics from UChicago; MTS + ThM from HCHC; history + material culture of ancient religion; chanter, knitter, weaver; author of Contested Cures (Edinburgh University Press) bit.ly/3sMTELi
@jroberson.bsky.social
Associate professor of English @ MSMU Los Angeles - Romanticism, book history, maker culture, literary tourism & disability. Views my own.
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social
Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
@kristofsmeyers.bsky.social
natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | EXORCISM (2025) | PERFORMING ANIMAL MAGNETISM (2026)
@mmvty.bsky.social
poetry and data. prosody.princeton.edu & this cdh.princeton.edu order here: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data editor here: https://c19datacollective.com/ & here: https://culturalanalytics.org/ @culturalanalytics.bsky
@sarahebull.bsky.social
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. Interested in history of medicine, sexuality, and print culture, text reuse, IP, letterpress, DH/computational approaches Book: Selling Sexual Knowledge coming soon: https://tinyurl.com/5army9dc
@starcrossed2018.bsky.social
Shakespeare, slowly #SlowShakespeare; editing (2GV for Arden), introducing (R&J for Cambridge), writing (Textile Shakespeare, forthcoming from Oxford UP Nov 2025!) Teaching in Cambridge (Catz). Kiwi.
@drbibliomane.bsky.social
She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
@emyang.bsky.social
Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
@lisagdub.bsky.social
Historian of architecture & material culture; Programme Leader MA Design History Material Culture, NCAD, Dublin. Researching architectural-material history of Royal Hospital Kilmainham [also: tropical modern architecture; Catholicism; medical instruments]
@nicksturm.bsky.social
post45 poetry, small press publishing, print culture, history of arts funding | Lecturer in English @ Georgia State | co-director of NNYSS | editor of books w/ Fonograf & City Lights | book on New York School poets with Columbia UP | nicksturm.com
@jaivirdi.com
Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Delaware. Deaf & forever a radical Learn more: jaivirdi.com
@stwajda.bsky.social
Historian, curator, knitter of the American experience, daughter & granddaughter of immigrants, waiting for Lefty & CLE World Series win. American material & visual culture, museum studies, craftivism, women's history, everyday life. Too many projects.
@guysechrist.bsky.social
Early-modern history of science | Commerce and Science -Practical Maths -Natural History Uni. of Tennessee | PhD Cambridge HPS
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawhim.bsky.social; she/they 🏳️🌈 THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance): https://www.prometheusbooks.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
@cwellesleysmith.bsky.social
Artist, writer, curator, visiting fellow in Geography at the Open University. Thinking through textiles and geographies of making. Community allotment grower, everyday stitcher. Bradford UK
@beadnell-miller.bsky.social
Fashion historian/curator/researcher meets pattern cutter/materials anthropologist/experimental archaeologist - investigating the wearers of historic garments through reconstruction.
@stephanieolsen.bsky.social
Historian of childhood, experience, emotions and education of Britain, Empire, Global. Editor of History of Education. Senior Researcher, Centre for the History of Experiences (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
@attusfalk.bsky.social
PhD-candidate in Economic History, Lund University. Early modern consumption and household economy. Also hobby ttrpg-creator, that part is probably equally important for my social media presence.
@carinacraftblog.bsky.social
Embroidery designer, author, and teacher. carinascraftblog.com/links-to-things 🇩🇰, in 🏴 since 2005. 💖 is a neutral colour. Interests: hand stitching, quilting, languages, history, art, folklore. 🐶 Blake. Free 🇵🇸. Vegan for the animals. 💚 She/her.
@anechka.bsky.social
teaching children right from wrong. forcing the world to be visually literate. Art Historian and Fantasy reader.