Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.
Amy Wilson @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social 18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com
Babiesinmuseums.com
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
Andrew Rothe @andrewrothe.com "I'm talking rubbish to cover up the cracks
An empty vessel who can't make contact"
NTU (BA 2017, MA 2021)
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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Northumbria University
Interests: Environmental History, Transport, Mobility, Built Environment, Tyneside, 20th Century, Oral Histories.
Specialist subject: Metros, Motorways, Modernism and Municipal Ferries
@calumscott1972.bsky.social @calumscott1972.bsky.social
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Postscript (Book Formatter, Cover Designer and Socials Post Maker): https://book-shelfie.com/postscript
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Finola Finn @finolafinn.bsky.social Historian of early modern health, religion, & emotions | Critical AI studies & historiography
Postdoc at C²DH, University of Luxembourg
ReRouted By History @reroutedbyhistory.bsky.social Counterfactuals for the geopolitically curious. What if the script flipped? The GPS of alternate timelines. Because history doesn’t repeat—it remixes. Let’s imagine the tracks that never dropped.
open.substack.com/pub/reroutedbyhistory | #bskystorians
@aildh.bsky.social @aildh.bsky.social Never expect, never assume, and never demand. Just let it be, because if it's meant to be, it will happen the way you want it to.
Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social
@Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives #welshwomensaid #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
The Common Room @thecommonroomgn.bsky.social The Common Room in Newcastle upon Tyne is a heritage venue, library and archive. It has a cafe bar called 5|Quarter.
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social Uni of York/WRoCAH PhD candidate: “Seventeenth-Century Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.”
Reading, emotion, gender and queer histories. She/Her.
Amy Wilcockson @wilcocksonamy.bsky.social MHRA Research Fellow - 'The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley', Queen Mary University of London
Communications Officer - BARS
PhD on letters of Thomas Campbell
(she/her)
https://www.amywilcockson.com/
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Dr Diane Ranyard @dianeranyard.bsky.social Historian researching marriage & divorce @ Northumbria Law School working on ESRC funded @divorcehistory.bsky.social. Interested in social, cultural, legal, gender, class & emotions history
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Beth Wyatt @wyattbeth.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. PhD researcher in First World War studies. Interests including film and TV, gender, emotions, country houses. Also interested in Korean history and culture.
Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
@barry5.bsky.social @barry5.bsky.social
Newcastle Cathedral @newcastlecathedral.bsky.social
Silvia Masiero @silviahedley.bsky.social Associate prof #UniOslo, researching unfair #digitalID - #ICT4D, #platforms4d & their discontents - #homecooking posts👩🍳
Kerri Armstrong @kerriarmstrong.bsky.social PhD student at University of Northumbria examining the lives of female convicts in 19th century Durham, Newcastle and York.
IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800
Nora Baker @norabake.bsky.social Postdoc at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @eschlappa.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine.
Dr Katie Crowther @katiecrowther.bsky.social research assistant | curator | PhD on material letters, print culture, and the c18 country house 💌
Jess Goodman @goodmanjess.bsky.social Associate Prof in French at St Catz, Oxford. Works on imagination, posterity, death, self-fashioning, theatre in C18. Mother of 4yo & 7yo. Views my own.
Stephanie Holt @stephholtnh.bsky.social Naturalist & historian specialising in British Wildlife & the history of natural history. Fellow & Trustee of the British Naturalist Association & FLS, MCIEEM. Steering group member for Green Jobs For Nature.
https://linktr.ee/stephanieholtnaturalhistory
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social Book & Library Historian | Currently researching female readers, family libraries in c. long 18th c. | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online Intern 2026 | Project Officer for National Literacy Trust - views my own
Pets Fur House @petsfurhouse.bsky.social popping in & out like a weasel, promise to get back soon & followback, in meantime keep following for more pets silliness 👍😂
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Charlotte Emily Edgeshaw @ceedgeshaw.bsky.social • she/her • NBC Funded Northumbria University PhD student • EMCO Research Assistant • Women’s Education and the North •
Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social We are a project based at the University of Edinburgh. Funded by the AHRC Sept. 2021-Feb. 2025. Our main output was a digital edition of the manuscripts of Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Wandesford Thornton (1626-1707). See http://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
Bryn Hammond @brynleyh.bsky.social FRHistS. Historian of the First World War, la Grande Guerre, WW1, ‘the Great War’. Principal Curator à l'ancien asile but now à la retraite. Evertonian. Cricket lover. Proud father…more when I think of it.
Debout les Morts ! @vingtfrong.bsky.social A range of stuff connected to the French experience of the First World War chiefly, but not only, for an English-speaking audience. #1gm #ww1 #FWW
Also, the practical role of French liaison officers & interpreters on the Western Front.
vingtfrong.home.blog