CR @ridethewave.bsky.social A picker, a grinner, a lover, oh and a dance maniac
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
Dr Cherish Watton-Colbrook @cherishwatton.bsky.social 📦 Community Research Initiative Coordinator, UCL
📚 PhD in the history of scrapbooking in Britain during the twentieth century.
🚜 Founder http://womenslandarmy.co.uk
Views own.
International Society for First World War Studies @fwwsoc.bsky.social Find out more about the Society on our website https://firstworldwarstudies.org/
@fionadendy.bsky.social @fionadendy.bsky.social Scottish history, especially 19th and early 20th century Highland history, amateur family historian, cats, trains, dyeing. 🏴
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Cambridge History of Memory and Emotions Workshop @histmememo.bsky.social A platform to explore the formation and development of memories and emotions in their historical contexts, across any place and time.
Email: CamHistMemEmo@gmail.com
Website: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-memory-and-emotion
Society for the History of Emotions @ehcsjournal.bsky.social The Society for the History of Emotions, home of peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal Emotions: History Culture Society (EHCS). Publisher De Gruyter Brill.
www.societyhistoryemotions.com
History of Emotions (NACHE) @nachemotion.bsky.social The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Megan Barber @mbarberhistory.bsky.social MA History Student at University of Winchester | Postgrad Member of RHS | Researching Monarchy & Public History
👑🏰
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Lucy Haigh @lucyhaigh.bsky.social PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑
Currently working on an exhibition.
@historythroughher.bsky.social
https://www.lucyhaigh.com/
Scott Santens @scottsantens.com Writer and Unconditional / Universal Basic Income (UBI) advocate
Founder & CEO of UBI-focused nonprofit ITSAfoundation.org
Sign and share the AI Pledge for Humanity for UBI: aipledgeforhumanity.org
My UBI FAQ: scottsantens.com
📩 linktr.ee/scottsantens
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Archives and Records Association - Midlands @aramidlands.bsky.social ARA branch for archives and records professionals in the East and West Midlands
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
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
Amy1558.bsky.social @amy1558.bsky.social Historian |Writer | @BirkbeckUoL Grad | Interested in public history | Membership Manager by day | She/Her | All views my own.
https://linktr.ee/amy_neal
Australian Convict & Colonial Research - London @ozconvictresearch.bsky.social London based group - convicts transported from Britain & Ireland to Australia 1787 - 1868 + colonial era to 1901 & beyond
Current project: Transported Female Convicts of Westminster
Come on a tour to support our work: https://echoesofoztours.wordpress.com/
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
Katherine Ingram @kating03.bsky.social PhD in History from QUB | Researching conflict and cooperation in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 | Studying suffrage militancy, suffragists’ relations with political parties, and feminists’ responses to war
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Steph Brown @stephjayb.bsky.social Assoc Prof of Literature in Tucson | Surveillance Studies | C20 Caribbean and Brit Lit
Books: Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State (2024) | The Call (2019)
rock scrambler | hawk enthusiast | she/her
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social Head of #Archives & #Records Mgt and Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing
History, Heritage #DigitalArchives #WomensHistory
Anne Osterrieder @anneosterrieder.bsky.social Public/community engagement and involvement. Based in Oxford, interested in scicomm, global health, MEL. Love fibre crafts, cats, plants and Bangkok. Views are my own. She/her. https://www.tropmedres.ac/research-areas/bioethics-engagement
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Dr Corinne Painter @corinnepainter.bsky.social Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
James Keating @jameskeating.bsky.social 📖 Historian of suffrage, feminism and internationalism | 🖊️ Distant Sisters (MUP, 2020) | @ahsjournal.bsky.social Book Review Editor | he/him
Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social Manchester Green Badge Tour Guide. Walks and tours. The original lunchtime Manchester Netwalks for business.
I can't access DMs so please contact via website.
www.revealmanchester.co.uk
Highlighting women in the footnotes of Manchester history.
Caroline Arscott @carscott.bsky.social Art historian, Courtauld Emeritus Professor. Victorian art. Botany, physiology, physics, communications technology and Victorian aesthetics. Whistler, Poynter, Moore, Burne-Jones and William Morris.
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
John Attridge @johnattridge.bsky.social Associate Professor of English at UNSW | Modernism, novels, specialisation, media, bildungsroman &c | Chair Australasian Modernist Studies Network
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️
We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends.
https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
Brian Ward @brian222ward.bsky.social Prof Emeritus in American Studies; wrote some books on US history and culture; writing ‘She Loves Y’all’ a book on the Beatles and the US South; Come on You Irons!
Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
Henry Moore Institute @hmileeds.bsky.social We're all about sculpture with exhibitions, library, archive and shop in the centre of Leeds. Part of Henry Moore Foundation, sister venue of Henry Moore Studios & Gardens
Henry Moore Studios & Gardens @henrymoorestudios.bsky.social The home, studios and sculpture gardens of 20th century sculptor Henry Moore, located in Hertfordshire, UK.
Sister venue of @hmileeds.bsky.social and headquarters of the Henry Moore Foundation.
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
Beyond The Joke @beyondthejoke.bsky.social I'm Bruce Dessau and I run the comedy news/reviews website beyondthejoke.co.uk
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)
Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social Research Fellow, University of Oxford
Theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities
Associate Director @LSRIOxford
Anglican Priest
https://www.theology.ox.ac.uk/people/revd-dr-timothy-howles
Emmy Sale @emmyailish.bsky.social Midlands4Cities (AHRC) funded Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD candidate with De Montfort University and The Hockey Museum 🏑👗
Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production
Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Women’s House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social Theatre actor, bookstore connoisseur, autumn enthusiast, cat rescuer, educator, explorer of cobblestone streets, and defender of the Oxford comma.
Chortle @chortle.bsky.social The website for comedy in the UK www.chortle.co.uk
Leslie Howsam @lesliehowsam.bsky.social Book historian. Special interests in history books (as material objects) and Eliza Orme (Victorian lawyer). Past president of SHARP (2009-2013).
https://lesliehowsam.ca/
Justin Hancock @justinhancock.bsky.social Sex and relationships educator. BISH (website). Culture Sex Relationships (podcast). Doing a PhD. Solution Focused Practitioner (SFBT). Find everything here justinhancock.co.uk He / Him
Richard O'Brien @notrockyhorror.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Northumbria University and lapsed early modernist. Working on poetry, novels, & a music memoir/podcast about the Mountain Goats: thirtyyearslater.substack.com. I make music as Groundbird, groundbird.bandcamp.com.
Richard Osman @richardosman1.bsky.social Books etc
Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
Dr. Donna J. Drucker @histofsex.bsky.social Research development by day, history of sex, reproduction, & technology by night. Books at U of Pittsburgh Press, Springer, MIT Press, & Reaktion (future). Black cat, cold takes. NYC. No employer opinions. #histsex #histmed #histtech
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own
The Institute of Classical Studies @ics.bsky.social The Institute of Classical Studies (ICS) in the School of Advanced Study. Promoting and supporting research into all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity and beyond.
Folkloring Podcast @folkloringpodcast.bsky.social Welcome to 'Folkloring,' the podcast that invites you to actively engage with practical folklore in your daily life. Created by writer and folklore researcher Tracy Nicholas Find us online at: https://folkloringlife.com/ #folklore
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
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Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Eve Colpus @evecolpus.bsky.social Historian. University of Southampton. Researching children and young people’s telephone cultures in 1980s and 1990s Britain #telephonicyouth
pronouns are she/her
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
The Deep Hull @thedeephull.bsky.social Award-winning conservation & education charity 🦈🦪🌊
https://www.thedeep.co.uk/
Adam Cook @adamcook.bsky.social Medievalist interested in 12th century frontiers, particularly Yorkshire and Northumberland. PhD from the University of Hull, Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Hull City fan.
All views my own, not those of my employer.
The Messy Ecologist @themessyecologist.bsky.social I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Brycchan Carey @brycchancarey.bsky.social Professor of Literature, Culture, and History; scholar of slavery, empire, and natural history; Stalwart of BSECS, ASLEUKI, the Linnean Society, and Alnwick FoE. From Cornwall, now living in Alnwick, Northumberland. Website: https://www.brycchancarey.com
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️ @phdrachel.bsky.social Public Historian/Prof; Voting rights, suffrage, & citizenship; 🗃️
On The Great Courses & Audible
Views=my own. On #TikTok
http://buymeacoffee.com/PhDRachel
Alonso Gurmendi @alonso-gd.bsky.social Fellow in Human Rights at LSE Sociology. Blogs at Opinio Juris. Follow me on Twitch/Youtube. Views Personal. Peruvian. English / Español / Português
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Skullduggery-Pleasant @department-x.bsky.social Covert secret agency. So secretive, nobody knows of it's existence.
Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social Broadcaster & environmental campaigner
chrispackh.am/links
Matthew Grant @mgrnt.bsky.social Historian - University of Essex (currently Head of School, Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies)
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social The land it is the landlord's, the trader's is the sea, the ore the usurer's coffer fills, but what remains for me?
Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest.
James Wright @jameswrighttv.bsky.social Documentary producer and director. BBC, Discovery, Sky, PBS and Permission To Know on YouTube
www.youtube.com/@PermissionToKnow
Andrew Tobolowsky @andytobo.bsky.social Full prof, biblical studies, but in a cool way. Author, dreamweaver etc.
Paul Robichaud 🪨🐐 @pjrobichaud.bsky.social Literature, myth, folklore • Stories of the Stones: Imagining Prehistory in Britain, Ireland, & Brittany • Pan: the Great God’s Modern Return • Hellebore contributor • poems in NewPoetry.ca, Ekphrastic Review, South Shore Review • 🇨🇦 in Connecticut • /|\
Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social Excited to announce A NEW LIVE TOUR!
The End of The World According to Jonathan Pie
Tickets ON SALE NOW from JonathanPie.com
Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org Art, Activism and Accountability
https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Sasha Mullally @sashamlly.bsky.social History Professor & Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, University of New Brunswick. Specializing in the social history of medicine, spatial humanities. Love to garden. 🪴🌸🌳 Striving to be a good scholar, mentor, friend out here under the blue skies.
Lucy Ellis @lucyje.bsky.social Museum Collections Management Professional | Prehistoric archaeology nerd | She/her 🇪🇺 Views mine
Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social I live and breathe Music🎶Flora🌻| Mentor | Author: Roots and Wings| Shares: Mostly oldies music, flower photos, Leadership insights, Humans and AI| My📱photos are mine, except as attributed | https://shanthamohan.com | Member East Coast Kin.
The Onion @theonion.com America’s Finest News Source. A @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social subsidiary.
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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Tara Wine-Queen Writes @tarawinequeen.bsky.social Mostly interested in laughing and crying and being good to other humans
https://linktr.ee/tarawinequeen
Adam B-K @abkdigs.bsky.social A mix of nice views, dogs, walks, nature and interesting metal detecting finds here in Yorkshire
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.