Jason Corcoran @jasoncorcoran.bsky.social Author of book 'Leaving Russia' published in April 2026. Journalist for Sunday Times (UK), Business Insider (US), Moscow Times, Irish Independent. LFC🏆
Canadian Association for Irish Studies @cais-irish1973.bsky.social The Canadian Association for Irish Studies has been promoting the study of Irish society, politics, history, literature, and culture since 1973.
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Michael Bailey @baileyhistory.bsky.social Instructor of History & Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs, Liaoning Normal University College of International Business / Missouri State
Writing -- On The Pig's Back: The Irish Diaspora, The Spanish Empire, & The Making of Racial-Capitalism (LSU press)
Cecilia Brioni @ceciliabrioni.bsky.social Lecturer in Modern European History @AberdeenHistory. 20th-21stc. Italy, youth, identity, gender, style, popular culture, (social) media. She/her. Views my own.
@louisebrangan.bsky.social @louisebrangan.bsky.social LSE, Magdalene laundries, sociology of punishment & Irish history. BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Speaks fast. 888 for subtitles. https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/persons/louise-brangan
Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social OHNI is an organisation with charitable status that aims to promote oral history in Ireland and to provide a network and training for oral historians.
@tudorroseteacher.bsky.social @tudorroseteacher.bsky.social Former Cambridge PGCE student, now a History ECT in London.
Enjoyer of coffee, cats and the early modern period.
Will ramble about local and material history if given an opportunity.
Currently reading: 'Weimar'- Katja Hoyer
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
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
📒🕰🎓🗺 No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social PGCE Tutor and former history teacher with an American West obsession. All views my own…I think. #UKTeaching #historyteacher #PGCE
ArthurJChapman @arthurjchapman.bsky.social Prof History Ed & Head of Department Curriculum Pedagogy & Assessment @ UCL’s Institute of Education. Editor HistEd Research Journal & International Rev of HistEd. Vice-Chair OHTE SAC. FRHistS. FHA. Co-Chair HEIRNET. Blog: thecamelsback.org. Own views.
Victoria Crooks @victoriacrooks.bsky.social Associate Professor History Education at University of Nottingham
Co-Chair @htenuk.bsky.social
Co-author: https://tinyurl.com/vj36v3hu
Blog: https://uonhistoryteachertraining.school.blog/
@UoNSoEHistory in other places
Cat Batch @catbatch.bsky.social Head of History at Teach First Teacher Development | MA Ed. L’ship UO Warwick | Associate Fellow Royal Historical Society | Governor | Gymmer + reader | Views all mine.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-batch-46380462/
Prof. Claire Ball-Smith @educprofclaire.bsky.social Director ITE, Uni of York; UCET Chair; teachereducator; history education advocate; lifelong learner; likes nothing more than being outside esp. in the North. Derbyshire lass. Views my own. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇰🇪🇸🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧
Ailsa Fidler @ramble14.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Prinary Education, HA trustee, Views are my own. Dogs. History. Reading. Often found wandering and pondering in woodland.- I Ian Dawson @iandawson51.bsky.social www.thinkinghistory.co.uk; edited HA's Exploring and Teaching Medieval History; ex-SHP Director; Hon Fellow HA, Leeds Trinity Univ; Nat Teaching Award 2003; retired from teacher-training; currently writing about the Redmayns of Harewood in 15thC
Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social Lecturer at UCL Centre for Holocaust Education. Studying for an EdD at the IOE.
I dig weightlifting, rolling D20s and succumbing to the woke mind virus.
Bleating about history, nature, nerd stuff, fitness, politics and education. 📚🌿🗳🤓💪🏳️🌈
He/him
Rupert Knight @knight-rupert.bsky.social Classroom talk / oracy, primary education, teacher education, teacher professionalism. Former teacher. Now in HE.
Ilona Aronovsky @aronovsky.bsky.social Author, Indus Investigators, Mohenjodaro Mystery, children's book, Scholastic India. Proponent of diversity, justice, & world history in KS2 curriculum. Contributor to UK Historical Assoc's Primary History Journal & Hon. Fellow. harappa.com/investigators
Helen Carr @helenfcarr.bsky.social History teacher educator, historian of education and Holocaust educator. Lecturer in Secondary Education at University of Birmingham. Co-Secretary @htenuk.bsky.social
Also a lover of Columbo and running.
HEIRNET @heirnet.bsky.social History Educators International Research Network
Tremaine Baker @tremainebaker.bsky.social Secondary Phase Lead at Middlesex University. History and Geography ITE. Interested in environmental education and interdisciplinary learning.
Jake Halford @thefrozensea.bsky.social History Teacher educator at university of Leicester
Abdul Mohamud @abdulmohamud.bsky.social History Education- UCL Institute of Education
Justicetohistory.org
Caitríona Ní Cassaithe @trionacheile.bsky.social Inner city Dub. Assist. Professor in History Education @DCU_IOE East Wall History Group, Heirnet, Public History Weekly, LETHE_EU
David Rawlings @davidrawlings.bsky.social Bristolian | PGCE History Subject Lead - University of Bristol | Researcher in social justice, coloniality and history education
Laura London @lauralondo1017.bsky.social History teacher educator based in Norwich.
Colin McCormick @colinmccormick.bsky.social Co author of a school textbook on Transatlantic Slavery. SLT, Teacher Trainer, HoD, History teacher
Sarah P @sarahproctor27.bsky.social History teacher educator, mother, commuter with frequent travel woes & Fifer (in no particular order). Views own. RTs not an endorsement.
Dave Stacey @davestacey.bsky.social Husband, Father, Head of ITE at UWTSD, Teacher, Geek, Occasional Blogger. Ignoring the warning about what curiosity did to the cat since 1978!
Christine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social
Ed Podesta @edpodesta.bsky.social #PGR at University of Leeds, researching English Teachers’ curricular autonomy. Education academic and consultant, crap saxophonist, deficient in the attention dept. I'll follow if you've got a bio or real-world descriptor.
Not here for Edu-Culture Wars.
Dan Lyndon-Cohen @danlyndon.bsky.social Director of the Schools History Project; Teacher, Writer, Gooner.
Katie Amery @katieamery.bsky.social Director of history for Co-op Academies. Author for OUP. Spinning addict, reluctant runner, normally found on a beach. Views my own.
Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social Professor at Indiana University. History education, social studies, civic education. Warning: feed may include photos of my fabulous granddaughters. Justiceandharmony.com
Ruth Benton @rbenton.bsky.social Senior lecturer in primary ITE. PGCE and primary history lead. South Devon. Here for history, books, art, the outdoors - and all things education! Views my own.
Rachel Peckover @rpeckover.bsky.social Assistant Prof in Primary Education, University of Nottingham. Former DHT. AuDHD. School Governor. Interested in inclusion, primary maths, CPD, and school leadership. Views my own.
JusticetoHistory @justice2history.bsky.social History educators & authors.
See our website for news, historical enquiries and publications: justicetohistory.org
Sarah Hartsmith @sehartsmith.bsky.social Head of History | MA local history | teacher training | occasional author | forever emo |
Views my own.
R Harris @rjharris.bsky.social Professor in education, history teacher training, LGBTQ+
Rachael Moore @rmoore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, PGCE History Lead Mentor - University of Worcester
Katie Illingworth @ktlwi.bsky.social Enthusiastic Yorkshire-woman in Scotland. Teacher of History & Modern Studies, Lecturer in Education, crafter and dog-servant! She/Her. Personal account.
sundeep @historysunny.bsky.social Historian & Lecturer at KCL. Formerly co-lead on Runnymede Trust's http://ourmigrationstory.org.uk & researcher on AHRC Beyond Banglatown http://beyondbanglatown.org.uk. PhD on British citizenship and immigration policy
Sarah Longair @scl1979.bsky.social Historian of empire, museums and collecting in East Africa and the Indian Ocean. University of Lincoln. Also interested in islands, the environment and pedagogy.
Sasha Smith @sashasmith.bsky.social History teacher. Assistant Headteacher for T&L/SCITT/ECT. SHP PATHS Council. SHP Regional Representative. Committee for Lincoln HA. Objects of Empire Project. ESIS Campaign History Chair. Views my own. - T @toddclio.bsky.social @toddclio.bsky.social
David Ingledew @davidingledew.bsky.social
Jen @kowakunai.bsky.social
History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social HTEN UK represents those who work with and have responsibility for the professional education, development and training of beginning and serving history teachers.
Email: HTENUK@outlook.com
https://www.hten.org.uk
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Terry Dunne @peelersandsheep.bsky.social New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v
New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK. Views own.
Transnational anarchism & print culture (19thC); Anglo-French exile & migration; women & feminism. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧.
"Un premier exil libertaire" (Libertalia, 2024); “Femmes de révolution” (Seuil, 2025)
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
Centre for Gender History @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social World-leading interdisciplinary research and teaching at University of Glasgow. Women's and gender history; history of sexuality; queer & trans history. MSc Gender history (on campus and online) & PhDs. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/genderhistory
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
New Books in Irish Studies @leabhairnua.bsky.social An author-interview #podcast channel in the NewBooksNetwork
Email us: NewBooksInIrishStudies@gmail.com
Listen to us: https://t.co/gdzOPcRwse
Hosts: Meg Smith - Danica Ramsey-Brimberg - Averill Earls - Bridget English - Colleen English - Aidan Beatty
Taylor Soja @historytaylor.bsky.social History professor, central IL. Writing about war in the British empire to 1918. Otherwise making pottery, taking pictures of my cat, plotting travel. (she/her).
Vincent Morley @vmstarai.bsky.social B.A. (UCD, 1989), M.Phil. (UCD, 1992), Ph.D. (Liverpool, 1999).
Tá suíomh pearsanta agam ag: www.vmorley.org
Godwin_lives @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 | Trainspotter | website: pamelaclemit.wordpress.com
Ken McDonagh @kenmcdonagh.bsky.social Associate Prof in IR, DCU, research EU security & defence, occasional runner, dad of triplets, mo thuairim fèin
Nicholas Allen @dedalusdenaries.bsky.social ‘signs and characters from the type-case of forgotten things‘ Sebald
Late Heaney (https://bit.ly/40oRn76)
Henry Brown @hdabrown.bsky.social Lecturer in modern European history at Cardiff University. Interested in modern Spain, military culture, and antifascism. Views own. Tired.
Emily Jane Cowan @emilyhistphd.bsky.social History PhD candidate @ Liverpool. Researching Victorian female murderers. Anglo-Irish Lancashire Lass. (she/her)
Aayushi Gupta @aayushigupta.bsky.social Research Assistant @maacambridge.bsky.social | Web Officer @musethnogroup.bsky.social | PhD History @camhistory.bsky.social | Researching South Asian Gender, Religious, and Visual Histories.
Rebecca @rlwilliamson.bsky.social PhD @ University of Glasgow | historian of abortion and concealment of pregnancy in 19th c. Scotland | all views shared are my own and not those of the dog in my profile photo
@daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
@jadeburnett.bsky.social @jadeburnett.bsky.social
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social Morris dancer by day, PhD student by night | They/Them
PhD Studentship in 'Gender and the Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'
Ask me about early modern sailmakers
Can't receive bsky DMs so please pop me an email: kb878@exeter.ac.uk
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
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/
Aliyah Kerr @aliyahkerr.bsky.social MA Student at LJMU currently researching Liverpool’s Black activist community📚
Liverpool
Maisie Jepson (she/her) @girlinthewrongera.bsky.social 📚MA History graduate and independent researcher.
Interested in gender, social and cultural history, told through fashion, textiles and oral histories of women.
Usually chatting about banners and all that jazz.
The Past and other Places @pastandotherplaces.bsky.social Kay W. Historical geography (PhD) researching housing, local and family history. Edinburgh 🏴 Resources at The Past and other Places (blogs rarely). Takes photos (kaysgeog on Flickr). Pedestrian non-driver.
https://thepastandotherplaces.wordpress.com/
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
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.
Dr Karen McAulay @karenmca.bsky.social Musicologist historian, RCS Fellow, @iashedinburgh.bsky.social alumna. Athenaeum research award: Dundee's Leng Scots Song comp.
2 Routledge 'Music in C19th Britain' bks.
Passable organist.
https://karenmcaulaymusicologist.blog/
Wary of folk w/o profiles!
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
Henrice Altink @henricealtink.bsky.social Professor of Caribbean history at the University of York. I work on the intersection between social inequalities and environmental /climate change in Jamaica post-1945.
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social Historian (of Russia, at Exeter). Didn't really want another social account but susceptible to peer pressure, so here I am.
@amypanetta.bsky.social @amypanetta.bsky.social
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Brian Casey @briancasey123.bsky.social Historian of the Victorian countryside, agrarian radicalism. and 20th Century global Catholicism and female religious. Hon. Fellow Durham University Theology and Religion.
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Dr Cathryn McWilliams @candlelitink.bsky.social Irish women’s history, letters, memoir, creativity & writing. Norn Iron cutty. Ready for the hills.
Associate Prof of English, University of South-Eastern Norway.
History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under ‘Lists’. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Sarah Roddy @seroddy.bsky.social Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.
Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna @patrickjmahone1.bsky.social Staraí/Scríbhneoir/Taighdeoir - Historian/Writer/Researcher
19th c. US history; Fenianism; Irish language in the US; Irish folklore