John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social A historian of things before 1700, especially religion, friars and the ways of everyday life.
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Chris Cusack @fearfuljoycuit.bsky.social Reader | writer | teacher. Been there, done that, got the T. rex.🦖 Researching death, famine, and apocalypse. Irish Studies and beyond. Reviews books. Also writing about Moomins, because why not. Asst Prof at Radboud University, NL. He/him.
Irish Association of Professional Historians #IAPH #Skystorians @iaphistorians.bsky.social The IAPH is the organisation for professional & graduate historians within and outside the academy. The #IAPH directory lists #historians and their related subject areas #Skystorians #History #AcademicSky #Speirgorm #Ireland #Research
VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social ERC Advanced Grant Project at Trinity College Dublin
PI Jane Ohlmeyer. Harnessing #knowledgegraph, #semanticweb and #AI technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland voicesproject.ie
Bronagh Ann McShane @bamcshane.bsky.social women, gender, religion, digital humanities, AI | Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin @voicestcd.bsky.social | Fellow of the Royal Historical Society | President of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland | author ✍️ 
Ann-Maria Walsh @annmariawalsh.bsky.social Early modernist, UCD; currently editing 17th-century Boyle women’s letters; interested in epistolary culture, women’s manuscript writings - diaries, accounts, wills, and also book ownership.
Book: Four Courts Press. Views own. She/her. 
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Little Acorns Bookstore @littleacornsbooks.bsky.social Award-winning Indie bookshop, Derry, North of Ireland. 70k new & used books. Est 2011. Two LegenDerry Chairs (380 signatures). Typewriter Museum due to open 2025. Donegal owner💚📚
Dr Lauren Smyth @laurensmytg.bsky.social Historian of child welfare and poverty in early 19th Century Belfast. PhD from QUB and currently working as the historian of Clifton House.
Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social Historian of late 20th century Ireland. Interests in media, recreation, gender, and sexuality. Dog parent. Historian for the lols. They/them
Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Karst de Jong @karstdejong.bsky.social Historian of the Irish in the Caribbean. Volunteer bookseller. 
Deborah Wilson @deborahwilson.bsky.social Subject Librarian for Schools of HAPP and Law at Queen's University Belfast. Historian in a previous life. Reader, runner, mum. Blueskies personal.
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Theresa O'Keefe 🍉 @treesaw.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology. I write on feminism and conflict, state violence, gender and social movements, and academic precarity. She/her. 🍉
Kickass Women of History @kickasswomenof.bsky.social PODCAST LAUNCHING 7TH JAN!
Each week, Amy and Emma will be joined by a different expert to discuss the life of a woman from the past who deserves to be better known. They could be from anywhere in the world, and have lived at any time in the past.
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.
Sandra Scanlon @sandrascanlon.bsky.social Historian of the US at University College Dublin
Social Movements, Cold War, Vietnam, Iraq, History of American Conservatism, author The Pro-War Movement
http://umasspress.com/9781625340184/…
Leanne McCormick @leannemccormick.bsky.social Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
Kiara Gregory @kiaragregory.bsky.social PhD candidate in MIC, researching Guinness’s Dublin brewery and its employees during the First World War.
Authored, World War One Irish soldiers-Their final testament. CD-Rom.
Dr Caitlín Smith @caitlin-smith.bsky.social PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Dr Frances Kane @drfranceskane.bsky.social Linguist interested in Syntax, Multilingualism, Onomastics and Digital Humanities. Gaeilgeoir and occasional triathlete. QCAP Research Fellow.
Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social Always sniffing out history, books and TV. Historian. C18 stuff, gender, food, recipes, medicine, DH. University of Essex. Chair, Society for the Social History of Medicine. Canadian in the UK.
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.
Prof Deborah Simonton @deborahsimonton.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth century, women, gender, towns and childhood, usually Scotland and Europe (which does include Britain).
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
Sarah Jankowitz @sarahjankowitz.bsky.social Interested in grassroots peacebuilding, conflict legacies, gender, beach volleyball | Views my own | She/Her
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
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.
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Laura Sellers @laurasellers.bsky.social Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
Antonia Hart @antoniahart.bsky.social Historian, writer, researcher.
Deirdre Cooper Owens @d-squared.bsky.social Human. I love cats, brilliant 🥷🏾, and thinking out loud. Not in this particular order. 
Charlotte Boyce @c19thceleb.bsky.social Associate Professor in Victorian Literature. Research interests: hunger & masculinity | food & consumption | history of celebrity. Co-I on ‘Young Women & Body Image’. Dog person. 🏴 https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/charlotte-boyce
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
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
Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social Historian of 19th-c Ireland, Britain, & Empire at UCC. An 🇺🇸in 🇮🇪. Writing about Irishmen, education, and empire.
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Jane Winters @jfwinters.bsky.social Professor of Digital Humanities,
School of Advanced Study, University of London. From medieval history to web archives, with some stops on the way. Own views.
Stephanie Rains 🪼 @acidrains.bsky.social The Barbara Woodhouse of llamas. Mainly politics and cute animals, with occasional images from the archives. For the day job, follow the Irish Cultural and Media History blog at irishmediahistory.com
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Kristina Decker @kristinadecker.bsky.social 📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
Gemma Clark 🧿🕯️ @gemmaclark.bsky.social No pasarán ✊ She/her Teacher 👩🏫 Radical Left Scum 💅Words in Tes, Bella Caledonia, The National, The Herald📝 Neurodivergent ✨🧠 Love parkrun 🏃♀️ ‘literal demon’ and ‘evil propagandist’ according to men on X.
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
Sara Read @saralread.bsky.social Historical fiction novelist #hisfic; senior lecturer #earlymodern & #creativewriting; mum; grandma; gardener; open water swimmer.
www.sararead.co.uk
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
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.
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Mel Farrell @melfarrell.bsky.social Historian, mostly of Ireland,1912-37. New book, 'Vying for Victory', on the 1923 election, co-edited with Elaine Callinan & Thomas Tormey https://tinyurl.com/4jtm4ndb . Also a big Villa fan & music lover. Any views, are my own.
Fionnuala Walsh @fionnualawalsh.bsky.social Associate Prof of Irish History at University College Dublin, interested in women’s history, and WWI. Enjoy film, fiction and fun. Always looking for fiction recommendations!
Aoife Masterson @aoifemasterson.bsky.social #Feminist cat mom | @sinnfeinireland Cllr @OffalyCoCo and GE Candidate for Offaly | Former Lecturer in Law l @iccltweet & @flacireland Alum | All ‘Mews’ my own
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Rebecca Mills (PhD) @drmllz.bsky.social Literary geography, crime fiction, literature and medicine, comedy of complicated life choices. Surviving the c-words. 🏳️🌈🇫🇮🇬🇧🇪🇺 Lecturer but views own. Loves all the cats except one. Formerly doombiscuits. Masked-up af.
Dorothy Cashman @irishcookbooks.bsky.social Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
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
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
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. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
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
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.
Julia Martins @drjuliamartins.bsky.social History of the Body, Medicine, and Gender. Host of
My Body, My Book Club (she/her)
Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social 17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
Women’s History Association of Ireland @whaireland.bsky.social The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
Old Bailey Online @oldbaileyonline.bsky.social Historical crime online.
https://www.oldbaileyonline.org
Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
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
Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social I’m not terrific but I’m competent
All bookings via website www.jancarson.co.uk
Patrick Brannigan @patrickjmb.bsky.social In Choirs; on board of Housing Rights NI, worked at QUB Belfast
An Dún/music/nature/whatever resonates....
Sherra Murphy @sherra.bsky.social Cultural historian looking at science, leisure, horses, and visual culture in 19th c Ireland. Willing dogsbody to a whippet and a pony, fond of cake, lapsed artist. Also crochet, sew, cook and generally mess around. ❤ bad jokes and good wine.
Brónagh 🇮🇪🇵🇸🚴♀️ @beebsymca.eurosky.social Cycling. Public Historian.
On the border.
www.digitalfilmarchive.net
A piece of archive film for every occasion.
https://bsky.app/profile/digitalfilmarchive.eurosky.social
And NornIronGirl1981
https://bsky.app/profile/nornirongirl1981.eurosky.social
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
Ger Holland @ghollandphoto.bsky.social Freelance photographer, Galway born, based in Dublin.
🏳️🌈 She/Her
☕ Coffee lover
☀️ Sunrise/sunset chaser
📸 Portraits & all things literature!
www.gerhollandphotography.com
Alison Martin @alisonmartin.bsky.social Writer and historian focusing on the Irish revolutionary period 📚✍️
Claire Mitchell @clairemitchell.bsky.social writer, mamaí, history and politics, Belfast/County Down, she/her.
📖 The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798
www.clairemitchell.net
Rick O'Shea @rickoshea.bsky.social Presenter of RTE's Arts show Arena on @rteradio1.bsky.social.
Runs Ireland's largest book club, patron @epilepsyireland.bsky.social, board of Fighting Words NI.
Quizzer.
Rarely here...
Links: https://linktr.ee/rickoshea
Dr Vicky Randall @vrandall.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World. 
Dr Maria A. Deiana @drdeiana.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in International Relations Queen’s University Belfast | Feminism Peace Security| Creative Methods | Dance Culture & Global Politics| she/her
From Sardinia like Antonio Gramsci
https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/maria-adriana-deiana
Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame
Research Fellow @ Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB
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Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain.
PhD from QUB.
Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.
Dr Caoimhe Ní Dhónaill @coifsh.bsky.social Sociologist. Chip lover. She/her/nerd.
Claire McGing @clairemcging.bsky.social Work in EDI & Sexual Violence Prevention in Irish HE. Research & write about gender politics & electoral geography. Book worm & podcast enthusiast.
Nuala O'Connor @nualaoconnor.bsky.social Writer. Irish. Autistic. Latest book: Menagerie (poetry).
https://nualaoconnor.com/
Dr Lucy Huggins @lucyhuggins.bsky.social Digital Humanities person | Historian of C18: maritime communities, labour, poverty, identity | Research Fellow at University of Southampton 
Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
Jim O'Neill @jimoneillnyw.bsky.social Historian of early-modern Ireland. Has a fondness for pillboxes and airfields that's not entirely healthy. Segued to WW2 somehow.
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism