Manchester Disabled People Against Cuts @mdpac.bsky.social 
Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People @gmcdp.bsky.social Disabled People's Organisation (100% exec & staff are disabled people working from Social Model of Disability & Disability Justice)
#RightsNotCharity
https://gmcdp.com
Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social One of the first genocide scholars to recognise Israel’s genocide. Author of ‘The New Age of Genocide’, and ‘What is Genocide?’. Sociology/IR professor, IBEI Barcelona/University of Sussex. martinshaw.org, martinshawx.substack.com
Rob Priest @rdpriest.bsky.social Historian of Europe, mostly. My latest book is called Oberammergau: https://tinyurl.com/5d7vubck
When I have time, thinking and writing about culture wars. First thoughts: https://tinyurl.com/yhjbssct
Here to read, only occasionally to post.
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Hel Spandler @hspandler.bsky.social Editor, Asylum the radical mental health magazine. Prof at University of Lancashire. Ambivalent mental health politics. Mad Studies. Madzines. They/them. ❤️🐶 🌈
oralhistory (formerly @notoralhistory) @oralhistory.bsky.social Formerly @notoralhistory on Twitter, but now fully #oralhistory.
Scholar of Oral History, Anthropology, Critical Disability Studies, Folklore & #disabilityanthropology
https://www.tumblr.com/oral-history
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
Jack Deasley @jldeasley.bsky.social 23. He/him. Doing a PhD in notions of success in ‘left behind’ areas at UCL. Wycombe Wanderers enthusiast. Governor at Banovallum School, Horncastle.
Sami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social Academic. Pleasure activist. Author of Bodyminds Reimagined & Black Disability Politics. Both open access from Duke University Press. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/samischalk
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Aliyah Kerr @aliyahkerr.bsky.social MA Student at LJMU currently researching Liverpool’s Black activist community📚
Liverpool
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Dr Ellen Smith @ellencssmith.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc, University of Bristol. Interested in all things letters, India, family history, memory https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/ellen-smith
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Brell Wilson-Morris @brellw.bsky.social PhD candidate, working in late 20th century trans histories (US and UK). Convenor of the trans studies phd/early career researchers workshop.
Anna Bocking-Welch @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, activism, charity, everyday politics and international engagement.
She/her
IHR History of Sexuality Seminar @histsex.bsky.social Tweets from the History of Sexuality Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social), London | Web: https://t.co/9fxieQfFZ9 | Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/2784plj6
Owen Dowling @owenjdowling.bsky.social PhD @camhistory.bsky.social | International solidarity campaigns and the British left, 1960-1990 | Words in Tribune and Jacobin
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/owen-dowling
Emily Calcraft @emily-calcraft.bsky.social History PhD Candidate - University of Sheffield- Inter-war pacifism. Editorial Assistant @ Immigrants & Minorities Journal.
Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social Preserving & sharing 800 years of Birmingham's history at the Library of Birmingham.
For enquiries, please email archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk
Follow our blog @ www.theironroom.wordpress.com
More info @ birmingham.gov.uk/archives
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Heeral Chhabra @heeralchhabra.bsky.social Postdoc - University of Liverpool
Historian by training
Animal historian by choice
Interested in Global history, history of India and South Asia, and pedagogy of history
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social 📚Historian of early modern London
📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives
🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th
🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans
👩💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd (and, relatedly, Humberside). Professor at Sussex.
Dr Deirdre Foley @drdeefoley.bsky.social Research Ireland Pathway fellow, Trinity College Dublin.
Researching pregnancy and maternity care in twentieth-century Ireland.
Membership Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland.
Previously: DCU, UCC, Oxford.
she/her
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Priyanka Zylstra @priyanka-zylstra.bsky.social Historian 📚 Doctoral candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Studies South Asian migration, British Empire, women’s history, labor and resistance histories
Natasha Anson @natashaanson.bsky.social Collaborative PhD student (Durham) & museum person (Beamish) researching nostalgia and working class heritage, interested in all things open-air museums/heritage/memory 🪩 she/her, views own, sporadic skeeter
Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social 💁🏾 Imperial Historian
📝 Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Multiculturalism
🦉 @reed_college_
📕 Hear Our Voices - out now from Quarto Kids!
https://linktr.ee/radhikanatarajan
Alfie Hancox @alfiehancox.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain and empire, working in Adult Education |
PhD on Black Power and Anti-Imperial Solidarity in the UK at @unibirmingham.bsky.social (completed 2025) |
Contributing Editor of Ebb Books and @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social
Sadie Mansfield @sadiemansfield.bsky.social PhD Candidate in History at the University of Birmingham researching Indigenous diplomacy in c18th North America
Alexander Curtis @alexandercurtis.bsky.social AHRC (M4C) funded PhD Student at University of Nottingham, looking into literary representations of the 1984-85 Miners Strikes, especially in Nottinghamshire.
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Holly Bird @holly-bird.bsky.social • PhD student researching prison expansion at Uof Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• fellow @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
https://holly-bird.co.uk/
Lydia Gray @lydiajgray.bsky.social Historian of the British empire, political activism and the Cold War. PhD researcher, University of Southampton.
Charlie Gough @charliejgough.bsky.social postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Daniel Wilson @danielwilson.bsky.social Data, Information and their Histories. At UCL.
danielwilson.info
🤖 Computational Humanities #dh | History 🗃️ | STS #histsci
@greypower.bsky.social @greypower.bsky.social 
Adam Coleman @adam-coleman.bsky.social PhD candidate at @uni-of-warwick exploring postwar British seaside towns | policy at @artscouncilengland | trustee at @c20society & folkestone’s leas lift | neurodiverse & queer (he/him) 🌈
Rebecca Jane Morgan @rebeccajanemorgan.bsky.social Historian of trans activism, religion, and popular culture. Author of Deviants and Trailblazers (May 2026) and Gender Heretics (2023).
Enquiries: rebecca.ja.morgan@gmail.com
Religion in Greenland project: https://religioningreenland.com
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
Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social Historian. Working on reproductive histories, particularly miscarriage and pregnancy loss c.1600-1780.
Also likes baking cakes
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Debby Sneed @debscavator.bsky.social nondisabled researcher of disability in ancient Greece
who do you think you are? I am
she/her pronouns in bio, every time
🍉
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social Researcher and environmental historian
Stephanie Wanga @stephaniewanga.bsky.social :) happy human.
african politics, african philosophy, african history, african statehood and anarchy, aesthetics, african everything.
stephaniewanga.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social Women working towards a kinder world. Join our campaign against the active discrimination of trans & non-binary people. Over 110,000 signatures of support, and counting 🙏
🔗 https://notinourname.org.uk
👏 https://www.gofundme.com/f/notinourname-fundraiser
Jo Brydon-Dickenson @jo-bd.bsky.social PhD student researching trans life in Edwardian London. Also does folk music on moothie and Northumbrian smallpipes.
Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social I write about media, race, rights, Chicago, other stuff. History prof at UCL. Author of 5 books of varying quality. I like fixed gear bikes and being outside.
John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social Pedestrian Historian.
Imperialism Syllabus: http://tinyurl.com/ev4psh98
The Anticolonial Front: http://tinyurl.com/33d3exca.
Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/ykp7r5a9.
Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
Food Museum @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social We connect people with where our food comes from, past, present & future, using our large collection, historic buildings and 84 acres of Suffolk countryside.
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Georgia Dalton @georgiamayd.bsky.social Northern Bridge funded PhD, researching feminist theatre and women’s activism | Research interests: modern drama, grassroots theatre, the WLM
Kelly Bosomworth @kellybosomworth.bsky.social Collaborative PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham with the Women's Library. Researching the Six Point Group (she/her).
Paola Medina-Gonzalez @paolamedgonz.bsky.social Historian and Art Historian working on Modern Germany.
Co-host of Theoryish Podcast
She/They/Any and All Pronouns Welcome 🏳️🌈🇵🇷
Sarah Boote Powell @sjbp.bsky.social History PhD Candidate (Warwick University - P/T), with experience teaching in HE & as a Post-16 Level examiner
Former secondary school senior leader/history teacher (1996-2018)
Now a full-time mum & part-time humanities teacher
King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social 
History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
naoise murphy @naoisemurphy.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, University of Manchester
Collector of fictional mid-twentieth-century dykes - send tips
www.naoisemurphy.com
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queering-twentieth-century-irish-women-s-writing.html
saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social geographer / sociologist / oral historian interested in race, gender, class, life stories, place, gay stuff
Barbara Brayshay @bbrayshay.bsky.social Director and Editor at Livingmaps Network (livingmaps.org.uk)
Pacifist, Environmentalist, Geographer
Sings with the Climate Choir- Dances to electro-beats
Loves Yoga
Gill Porter @gillskap.bsky.social Disabled Postgraduate Researcher (Centre for Disability Studies, Uni of Leeds) & HE Study Skills Tutor. Quals research on ableism & postgraduate 'belonging' in UK universities. Coffee drinker, cat lover, veggie, nature/cities, can be a bit sweary. She/her.
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social Professor in Human Geography+UKRI FLF @austerityalters.bsky.social 🍞🌹 Into everyday feminist economic geography, pizza+tap dancing. My views. She/Her
🐕🍕📚🍓🌷
Austerity + Altered Life-Courses @austerityalters.bsky.social life-courses & futures | austerity & crisis | europe | creative oral histories | solidarity infrastructure | anti-poverty | Uni of Manchester | UKRI funded 2021-2029 🍞🌹
https://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/morgan-centre/research/austerityalters/
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social UCL Press is the first fully #openaccess #universitypress in the UK. We are UCL's #openaccess publishing house. Reposting or liking ≠ endorsement.
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
@rosedebenham.bsky.social @rosedebenham.bsky.social 
Oxford History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network @hflgbtq.bsky.social critically rethinking queer history at oxford university 🗣🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
linktr.ee/oulgbtq_historynetwork
Women's History Review @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social This is the official Bluesky account of the Women's History Review journal published by Taylor and Francis 
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Ruth Beecher @ruthbeecher.bsky.social Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
Ariane Mak @arianemak.bsky.social Lecturer in British history, Université Paris Cité
Miners, Mass-Observation and Oral History
📖 En guerre et en grève. Enquêtes dans les cités minières britanniques (1939-1945), Ed. EHESS, 2025
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/mak-ariane-fr/
Caroline Seyer @cseyer.bsky.social PhD Candidate in British history at Université Paris Cité
Focusing on lesbian spaces in the 1960s-1990s in Great Britain
she/her
Dr Diane Ranyard @dianeranyard.bsky.social Historian researching marriage & divorce @ Northumbria Law School working on ESRC funded @divorcehistory.bsky.social. Interested in social, cultural, legal, gender, class & emotions history
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 🇨🇦
Ella Berny @ellarosebee.bsky.social (she/her) researching abortion storytelling, phd QMUL/Amnesty International UK
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.
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
Simone Schneider @simoneschneider.bsky.social PhD candidate in Sociology @University of Cambridge | researching infidelity & intimacy | https://simone-schneider.github.io
Autism@Manchester @autismmanchester.bsky.social Bringing together academics, practitioners, autistic individuals and family members to produce high quality autism research.
WEB: http://www.autism.manchester.ac.uk/
BLOG: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/autism-at-manchester/
Caitlin @feminomenologist.bsky.social ✨️ Feminomenologist ✨️ (PhD student) researching pregnant embodiment, obstetric violence and UK law ⚖️ | MA & MScR in Philosophy from Edinburgh Uni 👨🎓
Zoe Neubauer @zneubauer.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University, studying trans identity in the UK, 1970-2004
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