Faculty of History, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/home
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
Yale University @yale.edu The official Bluesky account for Yale University.
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
Athletics Ireland @athleticsireland.bsky.social National Governing Body for Athletics in Ireland #IrishAthletics
Dr Hillary Burlock @hillaryburlock.bsky.social #18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms)
Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain
https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
Dave Thomson @davidthomson.bsky.social Associate Professor of History at Sacred Heart University. Author of “Bonds of War” with UNC Press. Red Sox and Arsenal.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Zeyyat Bandeoğlu @zeyyatbandeoglu.bsky.social Academic in Security Studies | PhD in National and International Security Strategies (Turkish War Colleges) | MA in European Studies (UBC) | BA in Public Administration (Istanbul University, Turkey) | Diyarbakır native & Galatasaray Fan.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Conor Pope @conorpope.bsky.social I dropped out of the Cubs because it clashed with The Incredible Hulk on the telly. I work for The Irish Times.
Dublin Fire Brigade @dubfirebrigade.bsky.social Bluesky account for Dublin Fire Brigade and Ambulance Service. +353 1 222 4000. In an emergency dial 999 or 112
Ben D. @bdcj98.bsky.social Dad|Doctoral Researcher (Government) Criminal Justice/Legal Studies, American History, Theology degrees🎣💦🥾🎸
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 
Borthwick Institute for Archives @uoyborthwick.bsky.social The Borthwick Institute for Archives at the University of York, UK, for records of the archdiocese, local parishes, businesses, hospitals etc. borthwick-institute@york.ac.uk
Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of Literature & UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
📚 Author of Laurence Sterne & the C18 Book (CUP, 2021)
📚 Co-editor of John Cleland’s Letters (CUP, 2024)
📚 Working on a global history of women in book production 
Chloe Wilcox @sadpphicstanza.bsky.social Soon to start a Romanticism MA @ York || Interested in PB Shelley; self-injury in Romantic lit; protest poetry || Comms fellow @bars.bsky.social
Autistic, she/they 🛼
Megan Bennett • 📚🪡☕️ @megandanielle.bsky.social PhD on class & alcohol in 18th cent. art & literature / a Manc studying at the University of Sheffield / very grandma-esque / BSECS PGR Representative
Gráinne O'Hare @spacedolphin93.bsky.social I write things. PhD in 18th-century women's life writing, debut novel THIRST TRAP is out now with Picador (UK) and Crown (US) ✨️
Smell Studies Journal @smellstudies.bsky.social The first international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the field of Smell Studies
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
RCSI Faculty of Nursing & Midwifery @rcsi-facnurmid.bsky.social Welcome to the official Bluesky page of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, RCSI.
🔗 https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/about/faculty-of-nursing-and-midwifery
Deborah Hayden @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social Professor of Celtic Studies & Head of the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. History of medicine & linguistics; early Irish literature; manuscripts; #Gaeilge
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/faculty-arts-humanities/our-people/deborah-hayden
Philip Nolan @philipnolanmu.bsky.social Research Professor @MaynoothUni | Scientist (physiologist), teacher, higher education leader, cyclist | philip.nolan@mu.ie | Personal account
Prof.dr. Beatrice de Graaf @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social Historian | Distinguished Professor Utrecht University | „Fighting terror after Napoleon (CUP)” | security, terrorism, radicalization, crisis | Adapt-Academy.nl | Tendit in ardua virtus.
Katie Barclay @katieebarclay.bsky.social Emotional historian
Maria Leptin @marialep.bsky.social ERC President, researcher, biologist, passionate about fundamental research and human curiosity and creativity in all areas, and my family (which comes first)
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Sorcha O’Brien @sorchao.bsky.social design history, technology & other hybrids. also crochet, SFF, gardening badly and occasional dye experiments. she/her. pronounced like ‘portia’.
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.
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Kerstin Maria Pahl @kerstinmpahl.bsky.social Cultural historian of 18C and 19C Europe | Author of „The Visual Worlds of Life Writing“ (LUP 2025) | Works at MPIB | Member of Die Junge Akademie | Board member of ALLEA
Richard Bellis @richardtbellis.bsky.social Historian of anatomy, disease, and medical books. Lecturer in Medical Humanities, Medical school, Uni of St Andrews. Support Chester FC and edit the fanzine The Blue & White.
Louise Falcini @louisefalcini.bsky.social Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover. 
Dylan Gottlieb @dygottlieb.bsky.social Historian of cities and capitalism || Author of YUPPIES (@harvardpress.bsky.social) II Co-host of @whomakescents.bsky.social II Rep'd by Alia Hanna Habib @thegernertco.bsky.social
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Tessa Whitehouse @mtwht.bsky.social Researching religious minorities in eighteenth-century London; being by the sea; working in the English dept at QMUL
Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social Prof, Maynooth Univ https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/rob-kitchin
PI Data Stories https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Author: Researching Digital Life, Digital Timescapes, Data Lives, The Data Revolution
PDFs papers/chs https: www.kitchin.org
Juliet E McKenna @julietemckenna.bsky.social Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
Catherine Rose Maw @realityandreverie.bsky.social 18th/19th C. Literature and History: Poetry, Nature, Science, Medicine, and Emotion 🌿✨
Lover of Romanticism, Fantasy, Folklore, and the Gothic 🖤🥀
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social History, analysis & unabashed gossip about Revolutionary New England. 
Amy Wilson @amywilsonstorey.bsky.social 18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com
Babiesinmuseums.com
James Harriman-Smith @jharrimansmith.bsky.social Senior lecturer in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature (especially theatre) at Newcastle University; trustee of BSECS; likes cats and learning languages.
Jann Matlock (formerly @autopsiesgroup in the Other Place) @drjannmatlock.bsky.social Visual representation and French cultural history 1789-1914. Comments and likes are my own and do not implicate my employer. https://jannmatlock.weebly.com/ 
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
drsburdett22 @sburdett.bsky.social English Faculty at University of Cambridge. Author of The Arms-Bearing Woman and British Theatre in the Age of Revolution, 1789-1815 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023). Researching women and dramatic adaptation, 1800-1871. Runner (usually injured) 🏃🏼♀️
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz
Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences @rcsi.bsky.social RCSI is exclusively focused on education and research to drive improvements in human health worldwide. We're ranked in the top ten universities in the world for UN SDG 3, Good Health and Well-being, in the THE Sustainability Impact Ratings 2026.
Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social Archaeologist at Abarta Heritage & Tuatha Ireland. Passionate about public archaeology and enthusiastic about old ruins.
Author of guidebooks to the #WildAtlanticWay & #IrelandsAncientEast
Explore Ireland with me at
@tuatha.ie
Leon Hughes @leonhughes.bsky.social PhD researching prisons and the experience of imprisonment during the French Revolution • Trinity College Dublin
The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society @ecisociety.bsky.social The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society serves to promote original, multidisciplinary research into Ireland in the long eighteenth century. Founded in 1985, it has members across Ireland and internationally. ECIS is open to all.
https://www.ecis.ie/
Catherine Swift @bewattled.bsky.social Medievalist based in Limerick with interests in Ireland and the Irish church in a European context - St Patrick through to King John and all folk in between.
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Paul @atticusfinch-105.bsky.social Historian, idiot, Manchester City fan and book reviewer
Marielle Birks @mariellebirks.com MA in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck
Writer, Game Designer, Publisher
Blue Fox Comics I Fox Red Comics I Blue Fox Tabletop
https://linktr.ee/mariellebirks
@bluefoxcomics.com I @bluefoxtabletop.bsky.social
Dr Jodie Marley 🔮 @jodielmarley.bsky.social William Blake's Mysticism, Palgrave • Scottish Romanticism • Incoming 2026-7 VRF, Durham University • 2025 VRF, University of Glasgow • Gender, Spirituality & Prophecy • she/her • email: jodie.l.marley@gmail.com
B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social PhD, FRAS, RHS Associate Fellow. Read history, spirituality, art, and immigration law. Research in 18th cen transatlantic British nonconformity and world Christianity.
Toronto, ON (Treaty 13)
Rebecca Anne Barr @rabarr.bsky.social Reading, writing, thinking about the long 18th Century at the Faculty of English @cam.ac.uk. Irish woman baffled by the fens and the English middle classes. Emotional support/ emotional manipulation provided by a terrier.
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria @qaqv.bsky.social a research group based at the University of Warsaw | literature and culture of the 18th &19th centuries and contemporary rewritings of those periods |
open to collaborations
🌐 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
Marc Gotthardt @marcgotthardt.bsky.social PhD @cam.ac.uk / teaching @baruch.cuny.edu & @vassar.bsky.social / Byron Society Fellow
Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social Book historian, rare books curator Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience, Antwerp. Opinions mine, I may be wrong, follow/like isn't endorsement. He/him. Caregiver for a partner with Long Covid. Used to be @RareBookLibAntw on Twitter. Profile pic by LUCID.
Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social Art historian @ Tulane. Working on visual, material and built cultures of early modern Northern Europe, the Spanish empire and the Dutch Atlantic. Never too busy for a happy hour. My employer really wants me to note: all these views are mine not theirs.
Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 1st gen academic from Sligo/Donegal, now in Vancouver. Does research on obscure topics. Extremely fond of Cicero.
She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own.
siobhanmcelduff.com
Chris Louttit @drchrislouttit.bsky.social Victorianist, Dickensian, adaptation scholar. Teaches at Radboud University in NL. Edits English Studies @englishstudies.bsky.social. He/him
Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
@trionakennedy.bsky.social @trionakennedy.bsky.social 
Peter Budrin @peterbudrin.bsky.social ‘Laurence Sterne and his Readers in Early Soviet Russia’ (OUP, 2026). Leverhulme Early-Career Fellow in CompLit at QMUL.
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
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
La Folie XVIIIe @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social Un forum de discussion (2005 - 2021) qui réunissait des passionnés du Siècle des Lumières.
Ancien Régime - Révolution
Dr Mike Nevell @archaeotea.bsky.social Industrial & landscape archaeologist at Ironbridge; author, lecturer, occasional podcaster; cat, cricket & tea lover. See www.archaeologytea.wordpress.com; www.industrialheritagenetworks.com
Rob Parkinson @rparkinson.bsky.social Prof. of History, Binghamton University. Author, Heart of American Darkness, Tyrants & Rogues. Go Vols, Go Steelers.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
MURAL @mu-mural.bsky.social MURAL - #openaccess institutional research repository of
@MaynoothUni managed by @Library_MU
showcasing MU research at: https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/
Maynooth University Research Archive Library
Andrew Brunatti @andrewbrunatti.bsky.social PhD in Politics & History. Art lover. Currently researching/writing on visual portrayals of Viscount Castlereagh (1769-1822).
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.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social English prof, Oxford. Author and broadcaster. Early modern literature, history, and cross-cultural encounters. Fuelled by tea.
Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U
#LineageTheBook OUP July, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
Frank Cogliano @frankcogliano.bsky.social Professor of American History, University of Edinburgh. Author (with Peter S. Onuf) of Thomas Jefferson Survives: American Independence in His Time and Ours (Liveright, 2026).
@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).
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Mícheál Lehane @fertha.bsky.social Political Correspondent at RTÉ, Ireland’s Public Service Broadcaster.
@reisingerart.bsky.social @reisingerart.bsky.social Our paintings are the result of teamwork. Henriëtte envisions the concepts. She composes and chooses from a multitude of ideas the most potential ones. Roman paints, this technique enables him to paint realistically and in great detail.
Grupo de Estudios de Historia de la Prisión @historiaprision.bsky.social Grupo de Estudios sobre Historia de la Prisión y las Instituciones Punitivas (GEHPIP). Grupo interuniversitario de historia, sociología, antropología y derecho de lo punitivo. #Metropolice en @elsaltodiario.com: https://www.elsaltodiario.com/metropolice
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
Megan Eve @meganeve.eurosky.social Existential non-thinker. Librarian. Winging life terribly - winging eyeliner better. Directed by two void cats. Never serious. Likes wine, whining, naps, & annoying myself. Described as "Eeyore as a scarecrow" & being "a bit whimsy in my goth"🔮🌙 she/her
Realtine @realtine.bsky.social Proud to be from Kerry. I like to learn. Trying to scroll less and read more. 
Stewart Guy @stewartguy.bsky.social Naturalist. Wildlife Photographer.
Aka StewRat. Founder of Wildlife.net
Share, Inspire, Protect.
Society for Caribbean Studies UK @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social News, events, comment and updates from the Society for Caribbean Studies. Encouraging education and research about the Caribbean since 1976.
https://t.co/2eWfJZcINU
Goldsmiths, University of London @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social A close-knit community, a rich academic heritage, a creative powerhouse, a thought-provoking place.
Eabha Gallagher @eabhagallagher.bsky.social M.Phil in Modern Irish History Student at Trinity College Dublin