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Lauren Brown @laurencochrane.bsky.social 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (Formerly Lauren Cochrane) PhDing at University of Exeter. Teaching Associate. Studying imagery & colonial violence during the Kenya Emergency. laurencochrane.co.uk
Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com "Leftwing professor" - in other words, researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social Publications etc 👇🏻 https://aurelmondon.com/
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
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
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture. Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders. https://linktr.ee/ManchesterUniversityPress
Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social Historian of US slavery, gender and emotions. Lecturer in American History at Cardiff University.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father. All opinions my own.
Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good. https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social Wife.🏳️‍🌈Author.📚Tarot enthusiast.🔮 Professor of Africana Studies at Smith. Recovering sociologist. Twitter refugee. Current research: #BlackProvincetown. 日本語を勉強します. One of my books has a cameo in an Oscar winning film. Posts represent the views of my cats.
George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
Jack O'Connor @jackstanoconnor.bsky.social Cultural Historian New project researching 1980s Hulme, Manchester - https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/about/our-people/institute-staff/hulme-manchester/ History PhD from Sussex Uni on the New Universities of the 1960s.
Joseph Price @joseph-price.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Warwick | Centre for the History of Medicine, Science & Technology | Histories of Sexual Health at University in Postwar England https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2282164/
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily queerness in Ireland Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Eve Worth @evemworth.bsky.social Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social Wellcome funded PhD candidate at Northeastern researching The Beaumont Society: A Transvestite History of Britain from the 1950s Editorial Fellow at History Workshop She/Her
Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU @empiressdu.bsky.social Welcome to Empires, States, and Imperialism SDU - a research group at the University of Southern Denmark #empiressdu
Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
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
Katie Milliken @katie1973.bsky.social Historian of law, lawyers and modern Britain.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
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.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Alona Ferber @aloner.bsky.social Senior editor, @prospectmagazine.co.uk | Co-host, The Prospect Podcast | Ex: NS, Haaretz, TBI | UK, Israel/Palestine, feminism, politics, Ursula K Le Guin | Sign up to my newsletter: http://thebacklash.substack.com |
JR Moores @spinal-bap.bsky.social Author of Electric Wizards and Off The Ground. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/rb-author/jr-moores Bylines in The Quietus, Record Collector, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, The Guardian, etc. MD Alternative National Treasure.
Jonathan Liew @jonathanliew.bsky.social 100% pure nuance. https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jonathan-liew
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Oleg Benesch @olegb.bsky.social History prof at the University of York. Most recently Research Partner for "Samurai" at the British Museum. Also working on castles, masculinity, drugs, sport, emotions, comics, medievalism, and public history. Too many hobbies. www.olegbenesch.com
Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com MUSKISM with @bentarnoff.com: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/muskism-quinn-slobodianben-tarnoff?variant=43838135402530 HAYEK’S BASTARDS won the NBCC award for criticism. quinnslobodian.com
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Salomé Ietter @salomeietter.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF at Glasgow Uni - working on a historical sociology of the French and British ‘white working classes’ through reproductive racial capitalism. https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/staff/salomeietter/ Linkedin: salomeietter
Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Cian T. McMahon, PhD @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social Historian of Ireland and the Irish, at home and abroad. Currently working on a global history of Saint Patrick's Day. *The Routledge History of Irish America* (2024) *The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine* (2021)
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures. https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
Trevor R. Nelson (He/Him) @trevorrnelson.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Musicology @ Wichita State. Scholar of 20th-Century British music, race, and the Commonwealth, but I mostly post about tennis and my cat. Views obviously my own. www.TrevorRNelson.com
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Satya Gunput @hisnameissatya.bsky.social Historian. Writing on Britain, Race & Empire. Trustee of the Bonnart Trust. PhD from Birkbeck. North London Forever. Website: https://www.hisnameissatya.co.uk/
Dr Daisy Abbott @daisyabbott.bsky.social Playful & Game-based learning specialist. Interdisciplinary researcher. Serious games for research skills and researcher development. SFHEA, CeLP, PhD.
Orian Brook @orianbrook.bsky.social Social and spatial inequalities in the creative economy (and elsewhere). Chancellor's Fellow in Social Policy, University of Edinburgh Culture is bad for you http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144164
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Terry Hathaway @terryhathaway.bsky.social Political economist at Uni of York. Interested in corporate power, particularly in food, tech, and the environment. Working on a book. "YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?"
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Aaron Ackerley @aaronackerley.bsky.social Modern British History. Press and Media. Empire. Economics. Knowledge and Power. Associate Professor in History, University of Stavanger
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow at KCL, working on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
University of York @york.ac.uk We’re a leading UK university and part of the Russell Group 🦆 See news, events and find out more about York at: york.ac.uk
Kalathmika Natarajan @kalathmika.bsky.social Historian of modern South Asia at Exeter. Diplomatic history/IR at the intersections of migration, caste, and indenture.
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.
Malcolm Russell @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social Historian of 20th century Britain / PhD researcher in drug history (from Sept ‘26) / Author of Mudlark’d (Princeton University Press)
Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde, researching Irish women and interwar anti-communism. Monograph, Revolutionary Connections (OUP, 2026)
Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). No General But Ludd, No Ipswich #10 but Chaplin Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Uzair Ahmed @uzaahm.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at Center for Research on Extremism, University of Oslo @crexuio.bsky.social @statsvitenskap.bsky.social. Sociologist working on the racialisation of Muslims. Interested in racialisation, islamophobia, radicalisation and extremism.
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
C-REX @crexuio.bsky.social Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694 Evertonian
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
Itay Lotem @ilotem.bsky.social Looks like I’m a historian. Senior Lecturer at UWestminster: wrote a book about the memory of colonialism in Britain and France, and another one about the pitfalls of memory politics in post-WWII Europe. Dogs are better.
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow. I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences. https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social 'Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates' covers all aspects of Black British history from the ancient to the contemporary. @ihr.bsky.social
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
The Nickel Cinema @thenickelcinema.bsky.social London’s new grindhouse cinema. Listings at thenickel.co.uk
Norwegian Study Centre @yorknsc.bsky.social The Norwegian Study Centre at the University of York welcomes students and teachers from Scandinavia to join our engaging English Studies courses. Come for a week, or a semester! www.york.ac.uk/nsc/
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
Adam Murray @admagnetic77.bsky.social All things Horror/Dystopian Fiction/Genre Cinema "A Cosmic Perspective"...
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester http://andrew-seaton.com
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Elena Mary @elenamary.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck. https://elenamary.co.uk https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2024.2423428
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance. Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions agent: @WatsonLittle
Dom Davies @drdomdavies.bsky.social Reader in English at City Uni London. The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). Convening Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social More info: www.drdomdavies.com
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Jimmy James West @ejwestuk.bsky.social I write about media, race, rights, Chicago, built environment, other stuff. History prof at UCL. Author of 5 books of varying quality. I like fixed gear bikes and being outside.
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
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024). I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Stephen Morgan @drsmorgan.com De/anti-colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS). Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country. Programming: londonaustfilm.com Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
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
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social DJ. Pianist. Writer. Assistant Professor.
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Lucy Cann @lucycann.bsky.social PhD @BirkbeckHCA looking at intersections of race and sex work in late twentieth century Britain. AHRC funded. she/her.
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
John E. Richardson @discodiscourse.bsky.social University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. I still 🌊 goodbye at the end of zoom calls. Website >> https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
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/
George Evans @georgedevans93.bsky.social Historian of the British Empire, Ireland and the Second World War, University of Edinburgh.
Mary M. Burke @maryburke.bsky.social "Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
Daniel Jones @narson.bsky.social Historian and archivist. Working on far right and antifascism post1945, research/archive ethics and pedagogy. Work and teach at an English university. Liberal, nerdy and often under attack from his cat.
Kyle Harvey @kyle-harvey.bsky.social Historian of migration, media, radicalism, oral history & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific. Based in Naarm/Melbourne.
Dr Rachel Gregory Fox @rgf26.bsky.social Freelance proofreader, copyeditor, and indexer, specialising in academic and non-fiction writing. Learn more about my services at https://foxtales-editorial.com. PhD in English Literature; independent researcher; writing a book on the Hostile Environment.