Lucy Andrew @lucyvandrew.bsky.social Crime writer and crime fiction scholar. Jane Austen enthusiast. Rep’d by Euan Thorneycroft at A M Heath. Debut novel #AVeryVexingMurder published in 2026 by Corvus (Atlantic Books) and William Morrow (HarperCollins). Website: https://www.lucyandrew.com/
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol All the world’s a stage
Marni Kessler @marnikessler.bsky.social Prof. 19th-C French art. Thinking about aerial & subterranean environments, materiality, & always gender | Books (UMinn Press): Discomfort Food: The Culinary Imagination in Late 19th-C. French Art; Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris
Guy's Wardrobe @guydressesup.bsky.social Alt account for my 'quirky' dress sense.
Valerio Moggia @valmoggia.bsky.social FOOTBALL/SOCCER & POLITICS
🇮🇹 Sports journalist. The guy of ⚽ @pallonateinfaccia.bsky.social
https://pallonateinfaccia.com/
https://footballpolitics.substack.com/
"Sports rights are human rights!"
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
World War I As It Happened (1914) @warhappened.bsky.social I post stories, big and small, from the Great War, currently covering 1914. The project originally started at Twitter, https://x.com/WarHappened
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social Jon Blackwell, an editor @wsj. Reporting events from a century ago. Also see my companion account @250yearsagonews.bsky.social
Tim Holyoake @timholyoake.uk RetroComputing. Liberal Democrat. Caterham 7 Owner. In remission from Mantle Cell Lymphoma.
More often at https://oldbytes.space/@psychotimmy
Blogs at https://z80.timholyoake.uk/ , https://mcl.timholyoake.uk/ & https://railwaywalks.timholyoake.uk/
UK Prime Minister Updates @downingstreet.bsky.social Reporting the latest updates from Downing Street and Prime Minister Andy Burnham. Here until Downing Street setup an official account. I also run @royalfamilyuk.bsky.social.
Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social 🌎 Former MP for Brighton Pavilion, former Leader @greenparty.org.uk Professor of Practice, University of Sussex. Author of 'Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story'. Writing & campaigning on climate & nature 🌎 linktr.ee/carolinelucasbrighton
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
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
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
Henry Yeomans @henryyeomans.bsky.social Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social Associate Professor at ANU who writes about – and sometimes sings – ballads about executions, disasters, military conflicts & politics from the 16th to the 19th century. Personal website: unamcilvenna.com
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
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.
Dr. Grace Di Méo @gracedimeo.bsky.social University Lecturer in Criminology | PhD History | Cat Mumma & Pianist
Craig Stafford @craigstafford.bsky.social British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
Emily Rose Hay @emilyrosehay.bsky.social 
Lizzie Seal @lizzieseal.bsky.social Professor of Criminology. Primarily interested in historical criminology and crime history. Current book project is The Mummy in the Cupboard Murder: Forensic Science, Magic and the Gothic Imagination. Views my own
Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social Academic Coach @Buckinghamshire New University | Honorary Research Fellow; EngLit PhD @University of Birmingham | D. H. Lawrence, modernism, and archives | translator | he/him (phonetics: Bu-She Du-An)
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.
Kenneth F. Duggan 🇨🇦 @kfduggan.bsky.social Professor | Historian of law, living standards, & social control in Western Europe, c.900-1300 | Dog lover | Pasta addict.
Background picture is of Nanaimo.
Portrait is from the Luttrell Psalter.
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
The Crime and Punishment Research and Collections Network (CaP) @capnetwork.bsky.social CaP is an Arts Council England subject specialist network which disseminates information and research to crime and punishment collections.
Visit our website at: https://www.capcollections.org.uk/ for more information
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
Matthew Thompson @drmatthewthompson.bsky.social Academic. PhD on historical reconstructions of the Whitechapel Murders. Writes about toxic masculinity, Neo-Victorianism and historical reconstruction. Currently researching the vampire in interactive media. He/Him
Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social Historian of crime and London;
Arsenal fan and member of the Arsenal Advisory Board, Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
Green Anarchist, and wannabe photographer
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
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
Dr Samuel Saunders @samfordsaunders.bsky.social Educational Developer at the University of Liverpool (@livunicie.bsky.social): assessment and feedback, academic integrity, curriculum design, and (sceptical thoughts on) Generative AI. PhD: English, LJMU (2018) C19 crime fiction. SFHEA. He/him.
Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Dr Zack White @zwhitehistory.bsky.social Historian, podcaster, battlefield guide
Leverhulme Research Fellow with Portsmouth Uni: Napoleonic era warfare, crime, race & society
Founder of The Napoleonic & Revolutionary War Graves Charity
Host of The Napoleonic Wars Podcast
Views my own
JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk Crabby historian. Less crabby now blue skies beckon.
She/her • Agent: Bill Hamilton, amheath.com
Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
Margaret Brown @magstheobscure.bsky.social Absolute nuisance. MA History. Online quizzer. Garment Crocheter, Opera lover. Scottish in Ireland.
Bloody useless
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).
Jill Evans @jillrevans.bsky.social I research and write about the history of crime and punishment in Gloucestershire, England. Author of 5 local history books. Website: www.gloscrimehistory.uk. E-mail jevans.gloscrime@btinternet.com
Mara Keire @marakeire.bsky.social Historian of sexual violence. Should come with a content warning. Has strong opinions about the importance of gossip past and present. 
Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social Recently completed PhD in Early Modern History at Christ's College, Cambridge
Petitions, mothers, gender, family, community, crime and poverty in 17th and 18th century Britain
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
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social Medievalist, fond of juries, writes about violence, dog-lover, crochet enthusiast, reads Canadian fiction. Professor of medieval history at Ohio State University.
Medieval Murder Maps @medimurdermaps.bsky.social Medieval Murder Maps give insights into violence and justice in late medieval London, York, and Oxford.
medievalmurdermap.co.uk 
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Amy Helen Bell @amyhelenbell.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
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
🇨🇦 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.
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 boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Saorfhlaith Burton @drfloraposte.bsky.social Lecturer at RGU; Ethnograper and sociologist. I write and research on hauntings, ghosts, graveyards, the wilderness, and other sundry death things.
Dr Alexa Neale (she/her) @drlexxx.bsky.social Criminologist. Historian. Researcher. Writer. Talker. True Crime consumer, critic and crafter. Cat-Mum. AlexaNeale.com
Dean Kirby @manchesterhistory.uk Author keeping people's history alive. Historian. Orwell Prize nominated journalist. PhD. Tour guide. Rep: @litagencygmc.bsky.social.
📕Pre-order my new book The Scuttlers: https://linktr.ee/TheScuttlers
Substack newsletter: www.manchesterhistory.uk
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.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
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
The News Agents @thenewsagents.co.uk Lifting the curtain on the biggest stories in the UK, U.S. & beyond.
With Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel & Lewis Goodall. Listen on Global Player.
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@andyburnham.bsky.social @andyburnham.bsky.social Mayor of Greater Manchester
Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social Early Modernist, Prof UEA; Historical Lead, Gloucester Project & Co-Director, Hakluyt Project; Chair of Society for Nautical Research; Director Shipwrecks & Maritime Heritage Research Centre
Jessica S. @rednavy70.bsky.social Full time museum tech, part time history adjunct. Midwestern/EastCoaster. Struggling to find my purpose on this god forsaken planet. ✌🏻
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Chris Boyd @paperghost.bsky.social Award winning security researcher | Microsoft MVP x7 | Google Hall of Fame | Music & video creation |
Hacktics and Telemetry Producer |
UK Immigration (family reunion)
https://soundcloud.com/umawing
Tim Heidecker @timheidecker.bsky.social Tour, On Cinema at the Cinema, Office Hours, find it all and more at linktr.ee/tim.heidecker
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Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to Flynn. Writes books for Penguin.
www.seaspitfires.com
Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social Zoologist, author, natural historian Dr Darren Naish | Dinosaurs animals evolution | Books: DinosaursHTLE - DINOPEDIA - AncientSeaReptiles. PREHISTORIC PLANET lead consultant AppleTV | DINOCON leader | Mesozoic Art II out now
https://linktr.ee/tetzoo
H.G.W. Davie @hgwdavie.bsky.social PhD University of East Anglia - writes about Soviet Logistics in SWW, General Military Transport & Logistics, Railways, Horse-drawn Vehicles
Visting Lecturer University Wolverhampton, MA SWW Eastern Europe and Holocaust
Jon Worth @jonworth.eu European, originally a Brit, became German, moved to France. Runs #CrossBorderRail project, writes a newsletter about railways. Green, lives happily without a car.
Normally stuck on a train, stuck in a village, or escaping either on a folding bicycle.
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Dr John Plus Dr Mary @revdrjohn.bsky.social PhDs in history and theology of Jihad in Islam/Xnty in Syriac and Arabic and other topic, ex-academics, historical wargame designer and retiree. Our identities concealed due to threats and doxxing.
Lord Cochrane @thoscochrane.bsky.social The incredible life of Lord Cochrane | Age of Sail | Napoleonic Wars | Tallships | Seamanship
- hobby historian, main topic: the life and achievements of Lord Cochrane
- deckhand
- occasional posts about the Aubrey/Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian
Europe Elects @europeelects.bsky.social 📊🗺🗳 Poll aggregation and election analysis in Europe #EP2029
📧 contact@europeelects.eu
Diane Purkiss @janetanderson.bsky.social I love books, reading, eating, cooking, and my French bulldog Bunty. I write history and I teach English at Oxford University.
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Istoria Travel @istoriatravel.bsky.social A tour company that specialises in small group tours and bespoke trips built around history. Particularly #WW1 and #WW2 www.istoriatravel.org
Ready Aye Ready - Royal Canadian Navy #RCN @ready-aye-ready.bsky.social Ready Aye Ready - Telling the Story of the Royal Canadian Navy… an independent Bluesky account for those that love and respect the #RCN. https://readyayeready.com
Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com 
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social Professor of History. Historian of Science.
Charly Salonius-Pasternak @charlyjsp.bsky.social Geopol advisory at Nordic West Office (CEO) & Miltton: US FP; transatlantic relations; Nordic defence; Finland; Tech & society.
‘Alumni of’ @fiia.fi, Wesleyan Univ, FDF J5, CCW at Oxford. 1000s of media interviews over years. Capt (res), author, speaker.
Dr Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Bob Mayer @bobmayer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author in multiple genres. West Point grad. Special Forces disabled veteran. Science & empathy over ignorance & hate. 1 day at a time. Be nice. Bronx born, now on Maggie's Farm www.bobmayer.com
Jon Wiener @jonwiener.bsky.social The Nation podcast 'Start Making Sense" host; co-author with Mike Davis, 'Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties"; KPFK podcast host, "Living in the USA"
Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social PhD in literature
Owner of Black Hart of St Paul
Cofounder Minnesota Aurora
St Pauli Peace Prize Award Winner
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social Mother, physician, and proud U.S. Representative for Oregon's Third Congressional District.
dexter.house.gov
Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social music ∙ geekery ∙ media and comms ∙ more random musings than you can handle ∙ DC vibe checks & street photography ∙ somehow has a PhD ∙ opinions all mine ∙ once called "the bus passenger" by People Magazine
John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social Independent Documentary Photographer
Bearing witness without permission.
No badge. No distance.
📍Minneapolis
https://linktr.ee/john_abernathy_