Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
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Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865
Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social Historian of libraries, books and politics in 18th/19thC Britain and US | AHRC/SGSAH PhD from StirUni | Prev RA on Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online and Books and Borrowing (https://borrowing.stir.ac.uk/)| Volunteer guide @ Leighton Library, Dunblane
Rob Priest @rdpriest.bsky.social Historian of Europe, mostly. My latest book is called Oberammergau: https://tinyurl.com/5d7vubck
When I have time, thinking and writing about culture wars. First thoughts: https://tinyurl.com/yhjbssct
Here to read, only occasionally to post.
The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com Satirical news by & for autistic people (poor things). Founded by Sara Gibbs & Elsa Williams; run by Sara Gibbs & Sarah Amero
It’s a Superpower?? is out now: https://allmylinks.com/itsasuperpower
www.thedailytism.com
www.patreon.com/TheDailyTism
Dr Carrie Long @carrielong.bsky.social Historian | PDRA: Inclusive Histories Project 25-26| RMG Caird Fellow: Greenwich Hospital School 26 | IHR Pearsall Fellow 23-24 | Research interests: c.18-19th naval and military families, marginalised histories, lone women, petitioning, welfare and care
Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
Chair, Family Expert Reference Group, National Maternity & Neonatal Taskforce
(I can't read private messages here.)
Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com Minneapolis. Author and illustrator of award-winning comics and funnybooks. Keeps hens. Tells fortunes. Is queer. I cannot tell if you're joking. Literal* cartoon. He/him, They/them
Support my work: patreon.com/trungles
Links: https://bio.site/trungles
Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
Naomi Petropoulos @n-petropoulos.bsky.social Queen's University Belfast PhD History Candidate specialising in the history of Derry and its shirt-making industry.
Views expressed are my own.
Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social Morris dancer by day, PhD student by night | They/Them
PhD Studentship in 'Gender and the Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'
Ask me about early modern sailmakers
Can't receive bsky DMs so please pop me an email: kb878@exeter.ac.uk
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
Dr Claire Markham @culturalclare.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, social harms, sustainability, co-production. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social
@drinkingstudies.bsky.social
Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social History PGR at Newcastle University | apprenticeship, women, and gender in the long 18c English book trade | previous librarian | New Englander in Old England | no terfs | she/her
Julia Hartley @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social BBC New Generation Thinker. Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature @glasgow.ac.uk. Occasional interpreter. Hopeful Achaemenid queen. 👑🗡️🔥
Website: www.juliacaterinahartley.com
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.
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Charlotte Canizo @charlottecanizo.bsky.social DPhil candidate | University of Oxford | St Hugh’s College | Graduate Sciences Po | Holocaust | Childhood | Humanitarianism | Jewish
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History at the Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall at Oxford
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Benoit Abraão Mes @benoitmes.bsky.social US History MPhil Student and History BA Graduate, University of Oxford
Charlie Gough @charliejgough.bsky.social postdoc @leverhulme.ac.uk @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social | queer 19thC poetry and poetics, life writing, sexology | he/him
stefanihrig.bsky.social @stefanihrig.bsky.social History prof @ Haifa University, head of Haifa Center for German & European Studies, co-editor Journal of Holocaust Research, author of "Germans & Turks" (2026) www.stefanihrig.com
Dr Naomi Scott @drnaomiscott.bsky.social A.G Leventis Fellow in Greek Studies at the University of Bristol. Julius Pollux superfan. Expert in Ancient Greek jokes.
My research profile: https://tinyurl.com/2fc8fbzh
My book: https://tinyurl.com/2x256h64
Jane Casey @janecasey.bsky.social Author from Ireland. Responsible for the Maeve Kerrigan series and Everything She Didn't Say (out 16 July). Also owner of the world’s least cooperative spaniel.
Shani 🫧 (Bluesky hates Palestinians) @mom4medicare4all.blacksky.app Solo parent raising a brave autistic child, defends fare-evaders and beaters. defund the police. STFU about Chicago. Medicare 4 All is my single vote issue. WESTSIIIIIIDE!!! Go #B1GCats! She/her, M.A.
“Care work IS justice work.” - @whatashrinkthinks.com
Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social Londoner
Disappointed but not surprised
Andrew Nadeau @theandrewnadeau.bsky.social Comedian, Writer, Producer of Spitfire Comedy, Founder of PersonaEssential.com
Lately @lately.bsky.social Queer librarian in France. she/her
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
John Condren @jcondren86.bsky.social 🇮🇪 midlander living in 🇬🇧. Asst prof (U. of Nottingham)
Book: north Italian states & Louis XIV's France (Routledge '24).
Writing another on military finance & Genevan & Swiss bankers in 18th-c. (w/ Palgrave)
Likes running, reading, cooking, horses, and jazz- D Dexnell Peters @dexnell.bsky.social Atlantic and Caribbean Historian, University of the West Indies, Mona
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social https://bookshop.org/p/books/a-heart-that-works-rob-delaney/3f4398e419f2db84
Louis Henderson @hendersonlouis.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @lseechist studying education, care, fertility, technology, and some other stuff https://LouisStevenHenderson.github.io
Jack Deasley @jldeasley.bsky.social 23. He/him. Doing a PhD in notions of success in ‘left behind’ areas at UCL. Wycombe Wanderers enthusiast. Governor at Banovallum School, Horncastle.
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
GRACEH 2026 @graceh2026.bsky.social The Graduate Annual Conference in European History (GRACEH) is organised by graduate students from Central European University, the European University Institute, the University of Vienna, and the University of Oxford.
https://2026graceh.wixsite.com/home
@asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social 
Matteo Millan @matteomillan.bsky.social Historian of only the most cheerful subjects, such as fascism, paramilitary, armed associations and most recently guns. PI of the ERC funded project EU-GUNS (@euguns.bsky.social). Full professor at the University of Padova and proud citizen of Arcellatown.
EUGUNS @euguns.bsky.social A Continent Disarmed? Gun Culture, Gun Control and the Making of Western Europe (ca. 1870-1970) EU-GUNS
ERC-funded research project
University of Padua, Italy
https://euguns.eu
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Jessica M. Dandona @marquisedusud.bsky.social Academic, art historian, obsessed with Scotland, gardening, and books. Spends far too much time in anatomical museums. Will eat cake.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social Coordinator www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc / teaching @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org & transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for www.daad-canada.ca/en/
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Dr Cathryn McWilliams @candlelitink.bsky.social Irish women’s history, letters, memoir, creativity & writing. Norn Iron cutty. Ready for the hills.
Associate Prof of English, University of South-Eastern Norway.
Shahmima Akhtar @shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
Prof Katherine Brickell FBA @kbrickell.bsky.social Prof Urban Studies + Associate Dean (Impact & Innovation) KCL | Author Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State (2025) | Housing/Home/Law | UK & Cambodia | Editor TIBG | Views own | https://www.debt-trap-nation.org/book
Jon Lawrence @jonhistorian61.bsky.social Historian of class and politics in Modern Britain - author of Me, Me, Me? The search for community in post-war England @ https://tinyurl.com/463e6tff 
Josie long @josielong.bsky.social I am a comedian and a writer. Free Palestine.
Body in History Network, University of Oxford @bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social The Body in History Network at @ox.ac.uk brings together researchers from across disciplines who are interested in the history, representation, and experience of the human body and its environments.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/the-body-in-history-network
Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, organising research projects, fellowships and public events. Affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Michael Goebel @mgoebel.bsky.social Historian at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Global urban history, histories of capitalism.
Iberian History at Oxford @iberiahistoryox.bsky.social Promoting the study of premodern Spain, Portugal, and the Iberian world at the University of Oxford. https://iberianhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Shay O’Brien @shayobrien.bsky.social Sociologist and Stone Center Postdoc at MIT studying elite kinship networks. Incoming AP at Berkeley Sociology starting January 2027 (she/her)
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Antonio Oyarzabal - Pianist @aoyarzabal.bsky.social Spanish concert pianist based in London. Performing and recording 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙗𝙮 𝙬𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣 - Ambassador for DONNE UK
Learning Harp 
Maike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Alex Renton @axrenton.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, optimist. FRHistS. Books: Blood Legacy: slavery & my family's part in it. Stiff Upper Lip: abuse in Britain's elite schools. BBC Radio 4's In Dark Corners.
alexrenton.com
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Mathew Lyons @mathewlyons.bsky.social Writer, historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Slightly Foxed, New Humanist, Engelsberg Ideas.
Arts Emergency @artsemergency.bsky.social We redistribute opportunity, information, and useful connections in culture.
https://www.arts-emergency.org/get-involved/
Centre for Gender History @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social World-leading interdisciplinary research and teaching at University of Glasgow. Women's and gender history; history of sexuality; queer & trans history. MSc Gender history (on campus and online) & PhDs. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/genderhistory
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting 
Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
Charlotte Clarke @charlietylxr.bsky.social Student of 20th Century Children & Care. Legacies of Empire in the British Care System. Sometimes puts thoughts to screen.
Pol Dalmau @poldalmau.bsky.social Historian at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. Global history & Hispanic world.
https://upf.academia.edu/PolDalmau
@oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social 
Dr Deirdre Foley @drdeefoley.bsky.social Research Ireland Pathway fellow, Trinity College Dublin.
Researching pregnancy and maternity care in twentieth-century Ireland.
Membership Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland.
Previously: DCU, UCC, Oxford.
she/her
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Robert Sulley @robertsulley.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Leicester. Researching the history of education. Focusing on local interpretation and implementation of national education policy 1870-1907.
https://le.ac.uk/people/robert-sulley
Clarisse Berthezène @clarisseberthezene.bsky.social 
Pam Ritchie @hicks905.bsky.social Historian, co-founder of TannerRitchie Publishing, and author of a book on Mary of Guise. 🇨🇦
Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social Now: criticism, teaching, SoCal
Then: academia, 19thC, NYC
Always: "the novel," outdoor things, trying to figure it out
annaeclark.com
Lesley Hoskins @lesleyhoskins.bsky.social 19th and early 20th century British social history, especially how people lived. Wallpapers. Censuses. Rural life. Possessions, spaces …
Lisa Hellriegel @lisamirabai.bsky.social she/her | PhD student @ uni bremen | history of sexuality & sexual violence | thesis on the reclassification of sexual violence from morality/Sittlichkeit to sexual self-determination/Selbstbestimmung in German criminal law, 1920s-1973
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Professor KPA 🗃️😷 @kpanyc.bsky.social Professor of Russian & Soviet History at Queens College, CUNY. Author of The Essential Guide to Writing History Essays and An Ordinary Marriage: The World of a Gentry Family in Provincial Russia. antoshki.com
James Connolly @drjamesconnolly.bsky.social Historian at UCL SELCS specialising in modern France and Europe, the First World War, and military occupation. Other interests include film, TV, gaming, and comedy (especially puns). Very occasional stand-up comedian (14 performances so far).
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
COVID-19 Long-Haulers Discussion Group @covidlonghaulers.bsky.social Raising awareness #COVID19 and #LongCovid Supporting fellow long-haulers. Join our group for support! (Human curated) Media: covidlonghaulers@gmail.com
#MedSky
facebook.com/groups/COVIDLongHaulers
YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers
Patreon.com/BrookeLine
Amanda Finley Digs All the Things @rubyslippahs.bsky.social COVID long-hauler. Former archaeologist, opera, fed employee. Kids & homeless. Feral princess. Topes #WearAMask Comms: @publichealthaction.bsky.social
📍 Ba'al Pit
FB: is.gd/bp2vTA
Media: covidlonghaulers@gmail.com
YouTube.com/@covidlonghaulers
She/her
It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social Scientific Director, #MEAction
Affiliations: Stanford Genome, Université de Montréal
TIME100 Health
#ME, #EDS, #POTS, #LongCOVID
Views my own
Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social early modernist at UCD; Dublin, London. Beer, bikes, books. Queer is my DNA. All views my own
Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social Lecturer in health geographies at Bristol, treasurer of RGS Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Group; interested in activisms and feelings entangled in welfare states, "gifted" children, childbirth and trauma, participatory art.
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Kathryn Davies @kathrynfdavies.bsky.social PhD candidate in History of Art at The Courtauld • Monstrosity, posthumanism, and early modern print culture in Antwerp
she/her
Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of children’s lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
Layla K (she|her) @layla-koch.bsky.social 🌻 PhD student @uniheidelberg | Childhood in American foreign missions C19 | Obsessed with Twilight, trains & blue cheese | all views my own
Louise Duckling @louiseduckling.bsky.social Editorial Services for Academics | www.louiseduckling.com Intermediate Member of the CIEP | Literary Historian (18c women writers) | Reviews editor for Women's Writing journal
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,