John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org History & political economy of culture; Associate Professor of History, UMass-Amherst. Opinions my own. Prefer email to DMs.
https://asheeshksi.substack.com/
asheeshks.org/
Alex @m-ttpa.bsky.social
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social Historian of the near-present ✍️
Co-editor of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2025)
#cpfc 🔵🔴
Victor Jaeschke @victor-jaeschke.bsky.social Historian and Postdoc at the University of Passau
Martin Babička @martinbabicka.bsky.social Historian specialising in neoliberal thought and culture, the politics of science and knowledge, postsocialist transformation, and ideas of nature and the environment.
Sofia Ropek Hewson @sofiahewson.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow in democracy and politics team at IPPR.
Nicolas Brisset @nbrisset.bsky.social I teach and research the history of economics and the social sciences. Personal account. https://sites.google.com/d/1kByt4pZDAWI2SNUeW0fwVkvr1gWIoi2Y/p/1Ux-p6ofLnKK5qkhYvMbY8XNhbZ6nU30h/edit
Carlos Domper Lasús @carlosdomper.bsky.social Assistant Professor (@unizar.es)
Antiliberal Narratives of Democracy and Transnational Radical Conservative Networks in the Cold War
PI: Transnational Francoism (PID2024-155891NB-C22)
PhD. LUISS (Rome) - Former RyC Research Fellow
https://shorturl.at/7oHpt
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
Centre for the History of European Integration (CHEI) @chei-leiden.bsky.social The Centre for the History of European Integration (CHEI) brings together scholars working on European integration from a historical perspective. Directed by Dr Matthew Broad @unileiden.bsky.social. Website: https://edu.nl/83xuq
Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social Political Economist & Head of Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter in 〓〓 | Centre for Public Understanding of Defence & Security | Critical Minerals Challenge Centre | Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Toby Bennett @tgpb.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Media, Culture & Organisation at University of Westminster
Wrote a book on the mundane work that makes Big Music work; do editorial bits at Journal of Cultural Economy; some other stuff...
https://tgpbennett.wordpress.com
Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social Professor of Communication & Political Science. NH to PHL. Improv comedian. Author: “Irony and Outrage” (OUP 2020), “Wrong” (JHU 2023). My views and mine alone.
WEBSITE: https://sites.google.com/view/dgoldyoung/home
Łukasz Dulęba @lukaszduleba.bsky.social Political Theorist
Teaching: European New School of Digital Studies (EUV/AMU)
Permanent Lecturer: University of Muri
olivia paschal @oliviapaschal.com writer, editor, historian.
oliviapaschal.com
Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social Hallsworth fellow at University of Manchester & research fellow at Common Wealth. Ajax fan. She/her.
Aleksandra Komornicka @olakom.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Maastricht University
History, European Integration, Business, Cold War, Poland
https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ak-komornicka
Future Histories @futurehistories.bsky.social
Der Podcast zur Erweiterung unserer Vorstellung von Zukunft.
Von und mit Jan Groos.
www.futurehistories.today
English: http://futurehistories-international.com
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Dr Amy Edwards @somsproject.bsky.social Historian at Uni of Bristol interested in cultures of capitalism, business, and finance.
PI on AHRC project: ‘The Secret of My Success’: Women and Self-Employment 1970-2000.
Book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/are-we-rich-yet/hardcover
What's Left of Philosophy @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social a podcast about theory and the history of political thought from a leftist perspective. hosted by Lillian, Owen (@owengw.bsky.social), Gil (@gilmorejon.bsky.social), and Will (@williammparis.bsky.social). leftofphilosophy.com
Koen van Zon @koenvanzon.bsky.social Political historian. Works on European integration, Dutch parliamentary history, political representation and regulatory politics.
Posts in English & Dutch
https://www.ru.nl/en/people/zon-k-van
Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social One of the people who makes People Make Games.
chris@peoplemakegames.com | Signal: chrisPMG.31
Marios Richards @mariosrichards.bsky.social Frequently wrong. Please correct (effort involved appreciated).
Experiments with Data Visualisation:
https://github.com/MariosRichards/BES_analysis_code
https://medium.com/@mariosrichards
https://mariosrichards.substack.com/
Dr Catherine Bateson @catbateson.bsky.social American History Lecturer/Ithaca College London/ British Online Archives Academic Liaison Manager/Associate Editor http://irishamericancivilwar.com / FRHistS/“Irish American Civil War Songs” https://lsupress.org/books/detail/irish-american-civil-war-songs/
lAwReNcE bLaCk @lawrenceblack.bsky.social https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or the history of where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Megan Corton Scott @mcortonscott.bsky.social deputy director of the Labour Climate and Environment Forum • all my own views
Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social Cultural theory, political analysis, dance party politics.
Latest book: Hegemony Now (Verso, 2022). https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/494-hegemony-now?srsltid=AfmBOoqJNrqKZ8ydc63_O5y4SrzNyv9lpYrFBw3P-Bs4O0Y-tEdJft1u
www.jeremygilbert.org
Jason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social I'm a reporter covering the far right. jason.a.wilson@protonmail.com
Formerly @jason_a_w on twitter. Sign up for my newsletter https://the-end.ghost.io/
Rieke Trimcev @trimcev.bsky.social Political Theorist at MLU Halle-Wittenerg
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social 'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behavior, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind | gabrielagreilinger.com
Hjalmar Falk @hjfalk.bsky.social History of ideas and science, University of Gothenburg. Sometime critic, constant hylic.
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Chantal Sullivan-Thomsett @chantal-st.bsky.social Senior Research Associate @cast-centre.bsky.social and University of East Anglia
Currently, I work on climate politics in the UK & Germany. Other interests include political communication, discourse and German politics. PhD on German Greens @Uni of Leeds
Jon Allsop @jonallsop.bsky.social Contributing writer at The New Yorker. Formerly ran newsletters at CJR. Author: What is Journalism For? Other words in the New York Review of Books, The Guardian, The Atlantic, and elsewhere.
Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, podcaster, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. clubland.substack.com
Bert Russell @bertrussell.bsky.social Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB
Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025)
Preorder books: https://linktr.ee/Bertierussell
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
Abundance @abundance-org.bsky.social We are an action-research organisation developing bold public-common strategies that shift power, democratise the economy, and realise a just socio-ecological transition.
www.in-abundance.org
Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham
Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Recently also thinking about Lough Neagh. UCU rep. #firstgen
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Pablo del Hierro @pablo1981.bsky.social Associate Professor Global History Maastricht University. Not very good with labels. Interested in all sorts of histories and the challenges of multidisciplinarity. Big Atlético de Madrid fan.
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx
Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
Neema Begum @neemabegum.bsky.social Assistant Professor in British Politics @ University of Nottingham | Researching Race, Ethnicity and Political Attitudes
https://www.neema-begum.co.uk/
Lisa Herzog @lisamherzog.bsky.social Economic philosopher, teaching in Groningen, thinking about how to democratize the economy
Institut für Zeitgeschichte München−Berlin @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social Das #IfZ erforscht die deutsche Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts bis zur Gegenwart in ihren europäischen und globalen Bezügen.
https://www.ifz-muenchen.de/
paul johnson @rhetoricpj.bsky.social I live in pittsburgh and like it. wrote a book about conservative populism. have spent the last 15 years studying the right.
go arsenal! I like gin.
Book: https://www.uapress.ua.edu/9780817321093/i-the-people/
Asher Kessler @ashkwondo.bsky.social The history and politics of computing. Between Cambridge and LSE.
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
KFG Universalism and Particularism @kfguniversalism.bsky.social Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Universalism and Particularism in European Contemporary History", School of History, @LMUMuenchen.bsky.social, a project funded by the @DFG.de
Homepage: https://www.kfg20.geschichte.uni-muenchen.de/index.html
@jimdtomlinson.bsky.social @jimdtomlinson.bsky.social - D David Edgerton @davidedgerton.bsky.social Historian, at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, King's College London @kingschostm.bsky.social
https://www.davidedgerton.org/
Future Narratives Lab @fnlab.bsky.social Nonprofit research initiative. Making new common sense futurenarrrativeslab.org
Alexander Gallas @alexandergallas.bsky.social Strikes | Global Labour Studies | Class & State Theory | Conjunctural Analysis
Streiks | Globale Arbeitsstudien | Klassen- & Staatstheorie | Konjunkturanalyse Political Scientist @ Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences
Edoardo Vaccari @edoardovaccari.bsky.social I study ideas in history. Visiting fellow at @lsehy.bsky.social
Pronounced ai·doh·aar·do
Emmy Eklundh @emmyeklundh.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics at Cardiff Uni. Researching populist parties and movements. New book out now: “Europe’s Populist Condition” https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/europes-populist-condition
Stefan Couperus @scouperus.bsky.social Academic working at the intersection of modern history and the social sciences. University of Groningen
Andrew Riley @andrewriley-001.bsky.social Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
Journal of Political Ideologies @jpolideologies.bsky.social Analysis of ideology in theory and practice.
Editor-in-Chief: @mariusostrowski.bsky.social.
Based at the Centre for Research into Ideas and the Study of Political Ideologies, @uniofnottingham.bsky.social.
Christian Marks @cdnmarks.bsky.social political philosophy, social philosophy, critical theories; dissertation work on un/timely conceptions of the future with Arendt, Fanon, Césaire and Anders
He/Him, views mine
VidyaKumar 🕵️🪐🚀💫⚖️🇵🇸 @vidyakumar.bsky.social Critic, Lawyer, Senior Lecturer in Law, DPhil (Oxon) @SOASLaw School, London UK, ✍🏾 on Revolution, Int'l & Consti' Law, Space Law, Legal Theory & History, Human/Labour Rights, Law+Lit , Feminist, Founder: Race & the UK Constitution Ass'n (RUKCA) (She/Her)
Scott Bryan @scottygb.bsky.social TV Critic and Broadcaster. Must Watch + Remember Me? podcast. My book "OUT NOW" is out in September. Dyslexic / Autistic.
Emma Peplow @emmapeplow.bsky.social Head of Contemporary History, History of Parliament Trust. Oral History, Politics, Parliament and some cricket
Fabian Maier @fabnotts.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher in critical organization studies. Interested in the politics of transformation, degrowth, commoning, and the intersection between labour and environmental movements. #Arbeiterkind
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
T. Scott Johnson @ekphrastictactic.bsky.social historian, cook, baker, swimmer Assistant Professor of History. CUNY-Grad Alum. All tweets reflect me not any institutional affiliation.
Lars Cornelissen @lcornelissen.bsky.social Researcher, editor, teacher
Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F)
Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
Jokubas Salyga @jokubassalyga.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Political Science at UT RGV
Associate Editor @gpejournal.bsky.social
Political economist exploring post-communist Europe, capitalism and social change.
🌐 jokubassalyga.lt
All views here are personal.
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Jani Marjanen @janimarjanen.bsky.social Historian, University of Helsinki.
https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/jani-marjanen
Erwin Dekker @erwindekker.bsky.social Historian of economics, culture and econ, author of 'Realizing the Values of Art' the biography of 'Jan Tinbergen and the Rise of Economic Expertise' and 'Viennese Students of Civilization'.
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social dottore, ingegnere, avvocato
When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — out now from
@fsgbooks
https://www.unpopularfront.news/
Emmanuelle Avril @emmanuelleavril.bsky.social Professor of British Politics and Society at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. I work on UK political parties, political participation and democracy. Also interested in everything North-East
http://www.univ-paris3.fr/avril-emmanuelle-29364.kjsp
David Lawton @davidlawton.bsky.social
Peter Allen @peterallen.bsky.social Professor of Politics & Co-Director of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath, U.K. / British politics, representation, public sphere / author of How to Think About Politics (2025) and The Political Class (2018)
Caroline Ashcroft @carolineashcroft.bsky.social 20th century political thought at Harris Manchester College and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Author of Catastrophic Technology in Cold War Political Thought (EUP, 2024)
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
@sampallis.bsky.social @sampallis.bsky.social
Johanna Siebert @johannasiebert.bsky.social Political Economy of class and climate change | researching fossil capital, (green) extractivism & far-right ecology | currently green new deal and just transition at @dpzberlin.bsky.social, alumna from Sussex Uni. Views are my own / hier privat.
José Tomás Labarca @jtlabarca.bsky.social INT Academic Career Development Fellow, University of Cambridge | Economic/Historical sociology, Political economy, British & Latin American politics | https://www.josetomaslabarca.com/
Isabel Peñaranda Currie @ipenaranda.bsky.social
Corey Payne @coreypayne.bsky.social Historical sociologist of war, labor, & global capitalism
coreyrpayne.com
Martin Schulze Wessel @schulzewessel.bsky.social
GreenLeftHand @greenlefthand.bsky.social Independent scholar. Currently researching Die Linke's 'caring party' and contemporary community organising strategic adaptations. Critical realist, abductive approach. Also loves playing recorder.
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social Political scientist. Interim Professor @leuphana.bsky.social. Researching #parties, #democracy & the #farright in #Germany & #Europe.
Publications: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tYW_mxYAAAAJ
Claudia Landwehr @clandwehr.bsky.social Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, JGU Mainz
Natalie Grace ✨️ @witchynat.bsky.social Working in student experience • #History PhD "Witchcraft in Print in Early Modern Germany and England" (2023) • crocheting & sewing enthusiast
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social economist, lawyer, organizer, mamma
lenorepalladino.me
Johanna Wolf @johannawolf.bsky.social historian in labour history, transnational and global history, @mpilhlt
Joe Guinan @joecguinan.bsky.social Blackburn-Irish exile in the imperial metropolis · President of @democracycollab.bsky.social · There are real alternatives · Views strictly personal