Good Trailcams @goodtrailcams.bsky.social trailcams
no AI ever
Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social Irish 🇮🇪 / gender Historian, feminist, academic (UCD), lefty / 2 cat 🐈⬛ Mom / Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities / she/her / Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Jen Manion @manionjen.bsky.social Historian of Sexuality & Gender @ Amherst College. #LGBTQ #FirstGen Author of Female Husbands (2020) and Liberty’s Prisoners (2015). WELLFLEET
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition.
SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
Clare Stainthorp @claregs.bsky.social University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL ∣ Impact at the RCA ∣ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals ∣ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet ∣ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Aoife Bhreatnach @aoifeb.bsky.social Swears, writes, Gaeilge is fáilte. She/í
Makes Censored, a podcast about dirty books and films https://shows.acast.com/censored
Research interests: sex and death
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Fergus Smith @oldscotbooks.bsky.social 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
Annalisa Martin @annalisamartin.bsky.social Historian of gender, labour, sexuality and welfare in modern Germany
Postdoc @ Univ of Glasgow 
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Dr Graeme Millen @weegiegraeme.bsky.social Working class, Glaswegian 🏴, Historian of late 17th century specialising in Scotland, warfare, martial culture, identity and migration. Former HE lecturer.
Publishing on Jacobites, the Highland War (1689-1691) & Scots-Dutch Brigade 🇳🇱
All views my own.
Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Elaine Farrell @elainefarrell.bsky.social Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook 
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Benjamin Thomas White @btwhite.bsky.social Researching and teaching refugee history.
No DMs, I'm afraid, please email me (easy to find).
Linda Ross @linda83ross.bsky.social Nuclear history | decommissioning | Postdoctoral researcher | rural modernism network | Highlands & Islands | Polaroids | Dams
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Elwin Hofman @elwinhofman.bsky.social Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
Flitcraft @flitcraft.bsky.social Scottish history generalist with early modern tendencies. She/her. AuDHD
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.social. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Dr Georgia Grainger @sniphist.bsky.social Irish in Edinburgh 🇮🇪
PhD in the history of vasectomy ✂️🍒
Writing around masculinities and eugenics, amongst other things.
Working in performing arts policy/advocacy.
Disabled (AuDHD, EDS & POTS)
sí/í, she/her
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright 
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social Historian of sex, gender and medicine 🪴 she/her
Horror fan ⚰️ tattoo connoisseur 👻 mother of cats (Salem and Binx) 🐈⬛♥️
#histmed #genderhistory #histsex
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Keira Gomez @keiragomez.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD student - The Narrative Inheritance of the "Ceasefire Babies": An Oral History of Conflict-Era Family Storytelling in Northern Ireland
Yvonne McFadden @ymcfadden.bsky.social Social & cultural history; women’s & gender history; oral history; housing history; cats;
all views my own 
Hannah Kaarina Yoken @hannhkarina.bsky.social Academy of Finland postdoc & Aaltonen Foundation PI at University of Jyväskylä | PhD from University of Glasgow | Chair of Finnish Oral History Network | Young Academy Finland member | Trade union activist | Historian of gender, media, emotions & protest
Shannon Devlin @shannondevlin.bsky.social Historian of siblings, the family, gender and sexuality, and 19th-century Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway. All my own thoughts. She/her
Jeff Mefk @jeffmeek.bsky.social As a historian, something of a curate’s egg. LGBTQ history.
www.queerscotland.com
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino @inz-ljubljana.bsky.social Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Web: https://www.inz.si/en/
The Contributions to Contemporary History: https://ojs.inz.si/pnz/ (OA)
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@SistoryInfo
Visiting fellows: https://inz.si/en/leto/2025-26/
Christopher Ewing @christopherewing.bsky.social Queer historian at Purdue University working on sex/tourism, race, crime in Germany, the US, and lots of other places.
Author of The Color of Desire (Cornell 2023).
he/him.
Ronald J. Granieri @rjgranieri.bsky.social Historian, Strategist, Know-it-All. “The best of a bad lot.”
Steven Seegel @stevenseegel.bsky.social professor at the University of Texas at Austin, maphead, dog lover, Go Bills, slow marathon runner, opinions mine
Martin Hamre @hamremar.bsky.social | Historian of Fascism & Internationalism & Europeanization | Freie Universität Berlin | Former Postdoc Lund University
Nicola Camilleri @camilleriana.bsky.social historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Rachael Young @rachael-young.bsky.social Modern Irish & British History post-doc at Boston College. Interested in the merging of community art, protest, and policing in marginalized communities. she/her
MatHae @mathae.bsky.social Historian of European integration, rock 'n' roll, and tourism in Imperial Germany. Books on Cold War Elvis and Helmut Schmidt&Britain. Public intellec...LOL, jk https://go.ur.de/mhaeussler
Kelly Hignett @kellyhignett.bsky.social Historian, Bibliophile, Nature Lover, Keen Home Cook. Interested in Central/East Europe, Communism, Crime and Incarceration/Forced Labour. 
Carlos Sanz @carlossanz.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History & IR History at UCM | Diplomatic School | Jean Monnet Chair HistEU | ICEI UCM
Ernst Langthaler @elangthaler.bsky.social Historian | JKU Linz, Economic, Social and Environmental History | agro-food globalization, rural transformations & political economy and ecology of fascism | www.jku.at/en/department-of-economic-social-and-environmental-history/department/team/langthaler
Janne Lahti @jannelahti.bsky.social PhD, Historian at Linnaeus University and University of Helsinki. Global, settler colonialism, American West, Nordic colonialism, German colonialism, borderlands
Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social Historian | University of Agder | Author | Discovery of the Third World (CUP 2016) | Postcolonial People (CUP 2022) | New project: European Languages in Post-Independence Africa |
Dr. Sophie Turbutt @sophie-turbutt.bsky.social Historian of Spanish anarchism: gender, comradeship, intimacy, emotions 📚
☆AHRC Curiosity Award Specialist
☆LAHRI Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow
☆History Workshop Editorial Fellow
(she/her)
Robert Groß @robertgro5.bsky.social Human ecologist by training, environmental and energy historian by doing @univie.ac.at
URL: https://robertgross.org/
Martin Meiske @mmeiske.bsky.social Envirotech historian #infrastructure #maintenance #creosote Postdoc @ TU Berlin #envhist #histtech #histsci; Die Geburt des Geoengineerings (Wallstein 2021); Beyond the Lab and the Field (Univ. of Pittsburgh Press 2022) martinmeiske.com
Jonas Kreienbaum @kreienbaumj.bsky.social Historian working on colonialism, post-colonial North-South relations, genocide and economic crises. Lecturer for international economic history at University College Cork.
Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, citizenship & statelessness, Modern & Eastern Europe. Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of History and Human Rights Institute. Views my own.
Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social Academic, historian, degenerate
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
UK-based.
Alex Levine @alexmaxlevine.bsky.social PhD candidate researching 20th-century European internationalisms at UCLA
https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social Ottakringerin & Historian of late Habsburg Monarchy * University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna * https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/scheer/
Fraser Raeburn @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.
Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social Historian | Nationalism | German-Polish borderlands | Max Thalmann | German Studies Collaboratory | usual disclaimers that views my own and reposts ≠ endorsements | she/sie | https://eadhistory.org/
John William Sutcliffe IV, Ph.D. @nuclearhistory.bsky.social Historian of France's military nuclear ambitions (1945-1958) and US nuclear weapons testing. The views expressed are my own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Air Force, the Department of Defense, or the US Government.
Frederik Forrai Ørskov @oerskov.bsky.social Historian of literature, Nazism, cultural diplomacy, the Nordic countries, and a bunch of other things. Post.doc at Nordic Humanities Center, University of Copenhagen
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
Cahiers d'histoire. Revue d'histoire critique @cahiers-histoire.bsky.social #HelloESR
Revue trimestrielle d'histoire critique. Dominations, mouvements sociaux et pensées critiques
Revue OpenEdition, SHS / Science ouverte
https://journals.openedition.org/chrhc/
Andrea Azzarelli @azzab.bsky.social Historian of police forces, anti-labour movements, and gun control @DISSGEA (Unipd) - @LARHRA
Writing a book about strikebreaking, guns and private policing in 20th Century France
https://unipd.academia.edu/AndreaAzzarelli
Istituto Storico Germanico | German Historical Institute Rome @dhiroma.bsky.social transnational and transregional history | music history | research library | Italy | Mediterranean | Global south | medieval studies | early modern studies | contemporary history | musicology | digital humanities | fellowships & grants
Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard @sondergaard.bsky.social Senior researcher, PhD @DIIS.dk Historian of US foreign policy, transatlantic relations, diplomacy, security, democracy, human rights.
Iain MacInnes @iainmacinnesuhi.bsky.social Academic | Historian | Associate Dean | Scottish History | Medieval History | Military History | Medievalism | Comics Studies | Stoke City
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Anita Anand @anitaanand.bsky.social I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple. NOT IN THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT!
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Caroline Rance @quackdoctor.bsky.social Writer focusing on the history of medicine, especially patent remedies and fraudsters at thequackdoctor.com and thequackdoctor.substack.com
Also co-host of literature podcast @shewrotetoo.bsky.social
Dan Ellin @danellin.bsky.social Historian, Gremlinologist, musician, and father. IBCC Digital Archivist. All views my own. He/him.
Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social 🏺Hon.Prof, Archaeologist, Broadcaster, Award winning Author #Booksky 📕.
BAFTA and Equity member 🎥
President Council for British Archaeology
Research Affiliate @Pitt_Rivers
Agent: http://www.miradormanagement.co.uk
Insta: @raksha_digs
All views my own!
Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
Gavin Brewis @gavinbrewis.bsky.social C4 Community Catapult Research Fellow with interests in youth culture, communities, systemic violence, and intergenerational psychosocial trauma. Scholar of Buckfast Tonic Marxism. 🍾
William Simpson @williamsimpson.bsky.social Head of Content at Airship. We make podcasts like American Scandal and History Daily.
British but work with Americans so I've basically forgotten the way round dates go, which is unfortunate for someone writing about history all day.
Doctor Jeff Hawn 🌻🇬🇧🇺🇸🇺🇦 @jhawn.bsky.social Doctor of History at LSE International History. Freeman of the Glaizers. Book Failure of Russian Democratic Transition 1990-1993 coming in 2028. I use to live in DC and do geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him
Kate So @drsoandsoresearch.bsky.social Above all, pluviophile 🌧️ 📙Freelance book detective 🕵️♀️Health and Heritage ♥️ 👩🏫Cataloguing enthusiast 📚Medical humanities nerd 💊Away with the faeries🧚♀️ Thoughts mine own https://drsoandso.co.uk/
Dr Melanie Holihead @mmr-holihead.bsky.social Late-start historian, proud Corpuscle, author ‘Naval Seamen’s Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain’ (https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781837650118/naval-seamens-women-in-nineteenth-century-britain/). DPhil, FRHistS. Winner 2012 Corbett Prize in Naval History.
Lauren Johnson @historylauren.bsky.social Historian / Heritage Live Interpretation bod.
AHRC-funded PhD (refugees, religion & diplomacy in early modern Europe) and a book about Margaret Beaufort in progress…
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
Christian Wolmar @christianwolmar.bsky.social Transport specialist. Writer and broadcaster. Author of 20 books on railways & transport. Host Calling All Stations, transport podcast. Parkrunner, QPR, cyclist, driverless car sceptic. christianwolmar.co.uk My substack https://transportnews.substack.com/
Catherine Warr @cathwarr.bsky.social Historian, filmmaker, author. Leeds.
https://youtube.com/@CatherineWarr
Thomas Vye @thomasvye.bsky.social Medical Historian MA Medical Humanities
Medical History, horror, rpgs, water birds, squirrels, sumo (相撲), Japanese culture, games. Autistic.
Carrie Gibson @carriegibson.bsky.social Writer. Historian. Wanderer. My third book – The Great Resistance: The 400-Year Fight to End Slavery in the Americas – is out now in the US and 12 Feb in the UK. More info here: linktr.ee/carriegibson76
PeterFV @peterfv.bsky.social Working on battle planning by the BEF on the Western Front. Formerly a management consultant, test manager, technical writer and a Revolting Student (1968).
https://tinyurl.com/2532nczd
Linda Maynard @lindamaynard.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher, museum crawler
Leonie Hannan @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
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize. 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian.
Views own. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi