Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood
Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
Prof Alyson Brown @interwarcrime.bsky.social Historian @ Edge Hill University just embarking on BlueSky. concerned about the world. Views my own.
Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social I’ve written three novels in my eight book Tudor Queens series, and I’m currently deep into writing Catherine Howard. No direct messages. Universal link: https://linktr.ee/Nicola_Harris_Author #KU #hisfic #wivesofhenryviii
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@markstevens23.bsky.social @markstevens23.bsky.social Royal Berkshire Archives, Friends of the Nations’ Libraries. Wrote a book about Broadmoor. Care for Reading FC to detriment of personal wellbeing
Family and Community Historical Research Society @fachrs.bsky.social Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration. Our annual project for 2026 is on nursing, so expect a few posts supporting the research.
Willemijn Ruberg @willemijnruberg.bsky.social Professor Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social). #running
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Antony Marr @chalfontr.bsky.social Ex Met Police, former deputy registrar, and now retired professional genealogist and family history researcher with a special interest in the records of civil registration in England/Wales.
Fellow of AGRA
Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social Historian (19th century gender & crime) teacher (HOD History NPQSL) food & wine. CCF Royal Navy. Reader. Italy is life. Support teams with bird mascots 🏉🦆 ⚽️🦉🏏🦅. Made in Sheffield. Married a Californian. Now an Essex girl. Wednesday til I die. She/Her
Sian Broadhurst @sianbroadhurst.bsky.social Urbanism, housing, garden city movement |PhD student at York University | Trustee at Curious Arts and Groundwork SANT
Emily Jane Cowan @emilyhistphd.bsky.social History PhD candidate @ Liverpool. Researching Victorian female murderers. Anglo-Irish Lancashire Lass. (she/her)
Dr Emma Lyons @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
Tony Jones @exrevtony.bsky.social Retired UK Baptist minister, now living in France and still trusting Jesus.
Motorhomer.
Married to @lizjones51.bsky.social
Pasteur baptiste anglais à la retraite, vivant désormais en France et faisant toujours confiance en Jésus.
Deaf Heritage @deafheritage.bsky.social Deaf historian and filmmaker
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.
ASLH @aslegalhist.bsky.social The American Society for Legal History is an international academic society dedicated to fostering scholarship and teaching in the many fields of legal history around the world. aslh.net
Blog for society events, award winners, and opportunities.
Berkshire Family History Society @berksfhs.bsky.social Founded in 1975, Berkshire Family History Society works to meet the needs of those researching their ancestry across the UK and overseas – as well as those looking for former relatives in historic Berkshire
Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social The Family History Federation, supporting #Genealogy and the membership of #FamilyHistory societies worldwide 🌳 #FamilyHistoryFriday familyhistoryfederation.com / http://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Elizabeth Dale @cornishbirdblog.com Cornish Writer, bit obsessed with local history, check out my blog The Cornish Bird
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
Brunel University Criminology @brunelcriminology.bsky.social Welcome to the Brunel University of London Criminology Bluesky account! Here we share information on our research, teaching, and all things related to our team!
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social Archivist and Historian. Principal Legal Records Specialist at The National Archives. Dr of Late Medieval/Early Modern Legal History. FRHistS. Big fan of archives and original records. Views my own.
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts @elliemackinroberts.net I play running. Historian of Ancient Greek religion. Amateur sewist. Free Palestine. #ActuallyAutistic. 🏳️🌈 🇦🇺in🇬🇧: Immigrant, not expat.
https://www.elliemackinroberts.net/links.html
Social Theory on Film @socialtheoryonfilm.bsky.social Short films about Sociology, intended to welcome newcomers to the discipline, help students and entertain Sociologists | Committed to Public Sociology | Sociology lecturer based in Leeds, UK.
https://youtube.com/@socialtheoryonfilm?si=I2drpF7ww45l9PKr
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Tony Robinson’s Cunningcast @cunningcast.bsky.social Tony Robinson’s cunningly curated history podcast 🔎 Everything has a history 🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts
Listen 🔗 http://podfollow.com/1676254046
James Aithie 🏴 @jamesaithie.bsky.social "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards"- Soren Kierkagaard
Dumfries and Galloway / Isle of Lewis 🏴
I'd mute #ScottishIndependence if that's not your bag, as I bang on about it a lot.
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Alice Loxton @historyalice.bsky.social History broadcaster and Sunday Time bestselling author
📚 UPROAR! / Eighteen
🎥 @bbc @channel5_TV @skyarts
🪶 @telegraph @thetimes
Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social Genealogist & Family Historian for 22 years.
AGRA Associate, Wakefield, West Yorks
Pharos Intermediate & Advanced Certificate
One Place Study: St. John's Square, Wakefield
www.ancestralenquiries.co.uk
#FamilyHistory
#Genealogy
#LocalHistory
#Yorkshire
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Harriet Beadnell @hbeadnell.bsky.social Independent researcher interested in memory, veterans, commemoration and material culture. PhD in History from @york.ac.uk (WRoCAH) on the representation and identity of Second World War veterans.
profhuq.bsky.social @profhuq.bsky.social Musings of a law professor #WorkersRights #LegalEd #CRT #BizHumanRights #Bangladesh #Harlem #MovementLawyering http://linktr.ee/profhuq https://substack.com/@huqit
Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social The RCN (@rcn.org.uk) Library and Museum is Europe’s largest nursing library. Use our services online or visit our libraries, exhibitions and events in person.
Get in touch via: www.rcn.org.uk/library
Online|Belfast|Cardiff|Edinburgh|London
Mark Robert @marktamuff.bsky.social History, games, painting, walking, and other harmless things. Oh, and cheese. The middle lands. England.
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
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.
Department of History, Saint Mary’s University @historysmu.bsky.social Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax / K'jipuktuk. Offering BA & MA degrees as well as minors in Applied History and British Studies. For info: history@smu.ca
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
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
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
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Jeff Evans @welshie12.bsky.social Retired with an interest in travel,art, history, cooking&eating obvs
Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Naomi Clifford | Historical Crime Fiction & Non Fiction @naomiclifford.bsky.social ✍🏼WRITER
📖13 PARK LANE historical crime novel - an Amazon best seller + others
🩰Late onset ballet dancer
🐕🦺Dog lover
Tom Hughes @tomtelltale.bsky.social Passionate about museums, community heritage, storytelling, stone circles, medieval history, folklore, and bagpipes.
Sophie Myers @sophiemyers23.bsky.social History teacher in Sheffield!
Meghan Woolley, Ph.D. @meghanhwoolley.bsky.social Historian and writing instructor studying emotions and law in 12th and 13th-century England.
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
Joanna Cooksey @msfennybentley.bsky.social Welsh Librarian at Oxford Brookes University. She/her. Libraries, books & poetry. Super cycling fan.
Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social Singing researcher into #earlymodern ballads at Liverpool Hope University and Social History Society Administrator
Gillian O'Brien @gillianobrien.bsky.social Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
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
Euan Taylor Author @euantaylorauthor.bsky.social The Hard Times: Prison Diaries: A book about crime, punishment, rehabilitation, greed, and putting a newspaper to bed before the editorial team gets locked up: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hard-Times-Prison-Diaries-ebook/dp/B0DPVH8HFF/
Ann Cleeves @anncleeves.bsky.social Reader, crime-writer and advocate for libraries and the Reading for Wellbeing project. Creator of Vera Stanhope, Shetland and Matthew Venn, among others.
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
The Royal Ballet @theroyalballet.bsky.social
Christopher Pittard @christopherpittard.bsky.social Academic, Course Leader in English Literature at University of Portsmouth (but posts are my own, mind). Victorian literature, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. Next book: *Arthur Conan Doyle* (Liverpool UP, 2028).
Nicki Jones @nicki-jones.bsky.social Lover of genealogy, family history, local history, archaeology, geology, metal detecting, allotmenting and crafting.
Studying a BSc with the Open University.
Studying Higher Certificate in Genealogy with the IHGS.
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Frances Quinn @franquinn.bsky.social Author of The Smallest Man, That Bonesetter Woman & The Lost Passenger, agent Alice Lutyens, Curtis Brown. Keen on cats.
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
Caitlin Davies @caitlindavies.bsky.social Writer, #BadGirls, #QueensoftheUnderworld, #PrivateInquiries, historian, swimmer, jumble lover. Thanet, Kent. Rep by Robert Kirby, United Agents. https://www.caitlindavies.co.uk/
https://www.instagram.com/seasidedetective
@alexandracox.bsky.social @alexandracox.bsky.social
Kate Thompson @katethompson74.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author, journalist and ghostwriter. Www.katethompsonmedia.co.uk. The Little Wartime Library, The Wartime Book Club and A Mothers Promise. Podcast host, From The Library With Love.
Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.
The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social @ukri.org AHRC Standard Research Grant project (2024-28) exploring historical & contemporary understandings of the human hand. Hosted by @lcflondon.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & medhistoryman.bsky.social
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
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
Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Days Gone By Genealogy @dgbgenealogy.bsky.social Researching and exploring my family’s genealogical footprint!
#FindAGrave photo volunteer
#genealogist #familyhistorian #blacksmithapprentice #genealogy #Jewish #Italian #Irish #Quakerdescendant #7thgenerationnewjerseyan insgrm: daysgonebygenealogy
Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social graveyard historian; spouse to @fionawh.im; she/they 🏳️🌈
Cambridge, Massachusetts
THE CARETAKERS (War Graves gardeners in the French Resistance) https://www.globepequot.com/9781633888999/the-caretakers/
Aaron Jacklin @aaronjacklin.bsky.social Independent Journalist
Crime & Crime Policy
MA, Criminology & Criminal Justice Policy
Subscribe: The Art of Explaining Crime, aaronjacklin.substack.com
Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social The Royal Berkshire Archives holds the archives of the Royal County of Berkshire. We look after nearly nine hundred years of the County's history.
Website: royalberkshirearchives.org.uk
Carl Landauer @carllandauer.bsky.social Visiting Scholar, UC Berkeley Institute for South Asia Studies. Lawyer, legal & cultural historian; contributing editor to "Poetry Flash"; writer of poetry.
https://berkeley.academia.edu/CarlLandauer
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
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Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
@profamkilday.bsky.social @profamkilday.bsky.social
Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social Historian of Antarctica
#Antarctica #STS #envhist #histsci #polar #maritime #oceanhist #exploration
opinions my own- P Dr. Penelope K Hardy @pkhardy.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, & medicine, especially tech of ocean science. Associate professor of history. Book review editor for H-Sci-Med-Tech & H-Oceans. She/her/hers.
Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
SquareMilePlod @squaremileplod.bsky.social A snapper up of unconsidered trifles. Blueskying about London and its policing history. County Mounty.
Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
Janne Kivivuori @jkivivuori.bsky.social Professor of criminology, University of Helsinki, Finland. Criminologist, sociologist. Research themes: history of criminology, homicide, International Self-Report Delinquency Study.
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
thefruitsofhistory @fruitsofhistory.bsky.social https://fruitsofhistory.substack.com/
The Statutes Project @statutes.bsky.social Opening up Historic British Law and Legislation and digitally deforming it
Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social Historian in London for money (histories of modern British health, mental illness, law, and such: I wrote a book called 'Looking after Miss Alexander').
Mediocre musician & gardener in north Wales for fun. Vegan, cyclist, ask me about my chickens.
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org