Lucy Jameson @lucyanne.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Researching disabled expertise and adaptations to technology in the British Post Office #histtech #histsci #histmed
Long-suffering NUFC supporter
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
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.
King Algamemnon @adamrothman.bsky.social Ex-Interim Chair. Free puns. Historian. Books: Slave Country, Beyond Freedom's Reach. More: https://gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00336000014RXHCAA4/adam-rothman
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/
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
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
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.
shrek (historically accurate version) @tomwestland.bsky.social and you remain barry jones in the process!
economic history of africa + southeast asia, comparative development, markets and industrialisation
(he/him)
tomwestland.com
Gráinne Blair @grainneblair.bsky.social Memory keeper. Networker. Historian. ABI &PTSD #DisabilityMatters #MakeNMHOurs @RepealRathdown ♿️ @DADACampaign #Magdalen #SalvationArmy &much more #Resistance ☘️
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/
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
D. Anca Cretu @dacretu.bsky.social Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. Currently researching and writing on refugees, Central Europe, WWI (& beyond).
Raymond Williams Society @r-williams-soc.bsky.social Culture, politics, letters, socialism, Raymond Williams. Est. 1989. Publisher of 'Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism'.
raymondwilliams.co.uk
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Daniel Jenna Grouse @grouse.ing they/she anarchist, autistic, annoying
Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
Akala @akalamusic.bsky.social Musician/band
Grab #TheDarkLady paperback here:
lnk.bio/akalamusic
Antonio Costa Pinto @acostapinto.bsky.social Research Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon, and media commentator. Comparative Authoritarianism and fascism, political elites, democratization. Latest book The Fascist Zenith, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social https://alirizataskale.com
External Lecturer at Roskilde University
@distinktionjournal.bsky.social special issue editor
Recent publication: Making Finance Legible https://academic.oup.com/ips/article-abstract/20/2/olag015/8666259
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
Catherine-Rose Hailstone @caterose.bsky.social Historian of late antiquity and Gregory of Tours at Durham University. Currently working on a Leverhulme Trust project on Emotional Architectures: Atmospheres of Power in Late Antique Churches.
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
Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social History professor & Principal Emeritus, Queen's University. Interests include historiography/theory, and early modern Britain. Also woolfd1958 on 'Threads'. Dog servant to Layla and occasional practitioner of several hobbies; part time radio show host.
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
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Dr Penny Rabiger @pennyrabiger.bsky.social Elephant pointer. Educator. PhD from Centre for Race, Education & Decoloniality LBU, 2025. Racial literacy. Freelancer with a wheelbarrow portfolio. School Governor.
Simon Strick @unddieregel.bsky.social PRONOUNS: HE/HIM
Cultural Studies/Media Studies/Far and Near Right
Author at Panzerkreuzer Rotkäppchen
Brandenburg Ultra
https://linktr.ee/simonstrick
Daniel James @schlawinerkreis.bsky.social 19th-century German philosophy (mostly Hegel, with a dash of Marx) | Comparative philosophy of race | Africana philosophy | Philosophy of social science
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
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/
Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social "Chi ha compagni non morirà."
(Franco Fortini)
Hajar Yazdiha @profhajaryazdiha.bsky.social Sociologist at USC. Carnegie Fellow & Harvard Carr Center Racial Justice Fellow. Writer. Thinker. 📚Author of The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement.
Michelle Brown @profmichellebrown.bsky.social Professor | Appalachian Justice Research Center | visual - critical - abolition criminology | Abolition Now: Images for Study and Struggle | ᏙᎯ
pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social London radical histories & mysteries. Obsessions: open space, gentrification, strikes, riot, music, drink, spycops.
https://pasttense.co.uk/
Crystal Brandenburgh @cbrandenburgh.bsky.social Bitter feminist | CMU History PhD candidate researching interwar women’s politics | She/her 📚😈
JesstheWanderer @jessthewanderer.bsky.social Sociologist. Theologian. Abolitionist. Mental Health First Responder. Writer. Photographer. MPLS transplant. Prone to wander. Love fearlessly.
Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM
Talbot Imlay @talbotimlay.bsky.social History prof at Université Laval in Québec (Canada), father of two, husband of one and friend to a few.
All views are probably not my own.
https://www.flsh.ulaval.ca/notre-faculte/repertoire-du-personnel/talbot-charles-imlay
dr. christopher @eatthatbee.bsky.social Assistant Professor of medieval literature in Louisiana • University of California, Riverside, PhD • once described as “disgusting and unnerving”
feelings, manuscripts, medievalism, queer studies, & haunting • he/him
opinions expressed are my own
catherine, would probably throw a samitch @cathere.bsky.social Interests: sociology, language, law, and dogs, also cats.
In a former life or two or three: carnival survivor, professional student (ethno and CA), petty bureaucrat
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Kate Werran @kate-werran.bsky.social I write about WW2 social history. Author of Black Yanks: Defending Leroy Henry in D-Day Britain (The History Press, 2024) and American Uprising in Second World War England: Mutiny in the Duchy (Pen & Sword, 2020). Assoc FRHistS. PhD Student at Exeter Uni.
Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/staff/JBHung
James Le Sueur @jameslesueur.bsky.social 🎥 Historian. Filmmaker. Professor.
@ https://www.foxhollowfilms.com
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10234302
Award-winning “The Art of Dissent” Streaming Everywhere.
https://www.theartofdissentfilm.com
Egas Moniz Bandeira ᠡᡤᠠᠰ ᠮᠣᠨᠢᠰ ᠪᠠᠨᡩ᠋ᠠᠶᠢᠷᠠ @egasmb.bsky.social Associate Professor @tohoku_univ. 曩昔 @mpilhlt.bsky.social, @SinologieFAU, @UniHeidelberg, & @ceao_uam. 東亞政法史を硏鑽し、言語学についての豆知識を多く呟いとる。'Too much in love with my primary sources.'
Jerónimo Rilla @jrilla.bsky.social Trying to draw out Leviathan with a hook. Researching Hobbes's link to South America through political personifications. Currently at UCL.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-jeronimo-rilla
David Zell @deezed.bsky.social Post-Doc Research Fellow @Bham.ac.uk
East German history
Lefty centrist & anti-populist.
Passionate EU rejoiner #FBPE
Life-writing newbie.
(Grand)-dad jokes - QPR
Frank Ejby Poulsen, PhD @fepoulsen.bsky.social Danish/French 🇪🇺 intellectual historian 🇺🇦
🔗https://frankejbypoulsen.net
🎓PhD History, European University Institute
🎓MSc Politics, University of Copenhagen
🎓LLM, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Clemens Villinger @clemensvillinger.bsky.social The Past, The Present, The Future
Historian (he/him) Review Editor for @hsozkult.bsky.social
Working on a History of Normality
PhD in East German Economic History: https://shorturl.at/zoVIt
Skeets in German&English
Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK. Views own.
Transnational anarchism & print culture (19thC); Anglo-French exile & migration; women & feminism. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧.
"Un premier exil libertaire" (Libertalia, 2024); “Femmes de révolution” (Seuil, 2025)
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Joshua Andy @andyjc17.bsky.social Historian of the Holocaust, Russia, and Eastern Europe. Father and Husband. Coffee. Books. Golden retrievers.
Mary Jo MacDonald @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social Political theorist at Mount Allison University, previously JYU and UofT
maryjomacdonald.com
Leena Lindell @leenalindell.bsky.social AHRC CDP PhD at the Uni of York & NRM/ Science Museum Group - Transnational networks, SNA, colonialism, railways & 1930s China. Visiting researcher at Uni of Helsinki - Nordic colonialism, Petsamo, tourism & photography. Archivist. 🇫🇮🇬🇧🚂
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
E. Hochman @erhochman.bsky.social Historian of modern Germany/Austria, politics, nationalism. Views are my own.
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová @rkpejsova.bsky.social East Central European, Modern Jewish, and Human Rights History at Purdue U. Shofar journal. Bard, CEU Budapest, Columbia alumna. Displacement, Dispersion, Diaspora. coffee, black. 🖤🧿 #skystorians 🗃
Kit Kowol @kitkowol.bsky.social Recovering academic turned parliamentary clerk.
Author of Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War.
Brisbane, Australia.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/blue-jerusalem-9780198868491?cc=us&lang=en&
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
William D. James @wdjames.bsky.social Asst. Professor in Strategic Studies at NTU Singapore. Author of British Grand Strategy in the Age of American Hegemony (OUP, 2024). Research: Alliances, grand strategy, UK defence policy, European security & transatlantic relations.
www.williamdjames.com
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social History Professor
Comparative study of nationalism
Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Occupied-by-Aviel-Roshwald/9781108790826
Anastassiya Schacht @aschacht.bsky.social Historian (East Central Europe, International - & History of Science & Medicine) at @uniheidelberg.bsky.social.
PhD from @dshcs.bsky.social and @recetvienna.bsky.social at @univie.ac.at
Neja Blaj Hribar @neja-bh.bsky.social Historian, research assistant (INZ)
SE Europe (esp. YU), migrations, censuses, ideologies, digital humanities, late 19. and 20. century
Also: dogs, music, literature
She/her
Views my own
Emilija Tudzarovska @tudzarovska.bsky.social Assistant Professor in European Politics, Charles Uni| Research Fellow, Academy of Science, CZ| Form.Vis.Fellow, Cambridge Uni, CRASSH|MSCA Fellow, EU Democratic Legitimacy| ARENA🇳🇴
Previously: FCO, 🇬🇧Embassy MKD
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, UCL. Brighton born and bred. No longer resident, but still liberal. Expressed views mine only.
Francesco Cassata @francescocassata.bsky.social Historian of European science policies, #fascism, #eugenics, #racism, Cold War science, #PrimoLevi. Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Genova. Director of CENTRA (www.centrastudies.org) Born at 331 ppm
Molly Groarke @mollygroarke.bsky.social History PhD | University of Cambridge | National Trust | Researching 19th cent. British Empire, family networks, and antislavery.
Christos Fotoglidis @christosfotoglidis.bsky.social PhD student| Modern European History| Ohio State University|
Authoritarian regimes and dictatorships, nationalism, violence, institutions, social movements and youth, everyday life, transnational history, Greece, the Balkans and the Mediterranean region.
jodie c @jodcoll.bsky.social former historian of interwar communism & anti-communism, did a phd, now I work with books n that. Leeds, UK. old writing @ https://medium.com/@jodcoll
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | Research fellow @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social in the project "Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security"
Artur Banaszewski @arturbanaszewski.bsky.social • PhD Researcher in Intellectual History, European University Institute
• 20th century, Cold War, Marxism, Liberalism, Eastern Europe
• Convenor @inthiseui.bsky.social
• Graduate Associate @gpolthought.bsky.social
• Formerly @jhideas.bsky.social
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Joris van de Riet @jorisvanderiet.bsky.social PhD candidate in jurisprudence @leidenlaw.bsky.social | Kant, moral, political & legal philosophy, IR, int'l law | previously @CMLRev @EULeiden | LLM (x2) @unileiden.bsky.social | 🇪🇺 | 🌹 | He/him
https://jorisvanderiet.com/
Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social From Australia, have also spent time in Malaysia and Thailand.
Sociologist, educator, flaneur, SFF appreciator
Starting a new Linguistics research project in intercultural pragmatics
Interested in Asia things and languages. Also: Buddhism.
He/Him
Niklas Plaetzer @nplaetzer.bsky.social Political theorist. Junior Research Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge. https://niklasplaetzer.com/
Edward Jones Corredera @edjonesc.bsky.social Historian - UNED | New book out: Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America (OUP) | FRHistS & FRSA | Past: Max Planck Institute, Cambridge & LSE
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Susan Parham @susanparham.bsky.social Associate Professor. Runs an urbanism unit. Co-editor Journal of Urbanism. Food and place, urbanism, place retrofitting, nature based solutions, garden cities and new towns - plus other stuff
Ali Yalçın Göymen @goymenyalcin.bsky.social Political Philosophy; Postdoctoral research fellow at International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (irgac.org), Uni Potsdam
Marx | Alienation | Commune Form
Neoliberalism | Authoritarianism
Luis De la Peña @luisdelapej.bsky.social Historian UNAL/FUJI/CEU/
PhD researcher in Public History at UNIFI
Trying to find the similarities between Latin America and the Caribbean with the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean. Especially during the #AgeOfRevolutions
Opinions are my own.
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social History PhD at KCL on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
Samantha K. Knapton @lgmsam.bsky.social Assistant Professor in History, UoN, UK | Anglo-German-Polish relations | displaced persons | post-war history | UNRRA | Queer Displacement | Hidden Histories.
Dogs, cats, coffee, and bad puns welcome.
She/Her
Valentin Sandulescu @valisandulescu.bsky.social Historian; Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest. PhD in History @CEU Budapest. 🎓 History & historiography of fascism and antisemitism/history of the Jewish community in Romania. 🗃
https://unibuc.academia.edu/ValentinSandulescu
Martin van Gelderen @erasmianmartin.bsky.social intellectual historian • citizen -'old' republican • inspired by erasmus and grotius • member of the academia europaea • erasmianmartin.world
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'.
Pedro Mora-Ramírez @pedromrez.bsky.social PhD Candidate, @unisevilla.bsky.social | Masculinities, Space, Abolition, Literature, Film | Teoría y Estudios Culturales TEC (HUM 409)
https://linktr.ee/pedromrez
Andrew Sabl @andysabl.bsky.social Political theorist (Univ. of Toronto). Toronto/NYC. Realism, liberalism, toleration, privilege and opportunity, Hume, political ethics—and politics, humo(u)r, puns. Also husband, dad, stepdad.
Adrian Blau @adrianblau.bsky.social Professor of Politics at King's College London. I work on politics, philosophy & history. My surname rhymes with "flaw". BlauBlog: http://adrianblau.wordpress.com (He/him)
Daragh Grant @daraghjgrant.bsky.social UChicago. Early American history; colonialism and empire; legal history; history of political thought. https://www.daraghjgrant.com
Thomas Noriega @nhomastoriega.bsky.social PhD Student at Harvard working on classical reception and university printing in Early Modern Europe. Former bookseller, occasional librarian.
Austin J. Clements @clementsaustinj.bsky.social Postdoctoral fellow at the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame | PhD ‘26 Stanford University | American religious and intellectual history | ASU West alum