Dr Caitlín Smith @caitlin-smith.bsky.social PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
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 ⛱
@laurannys.bsky.social @laurannys.bsky.social
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Bethan Catherine Watts @bethanwatts.bsky.social MRHistS. PhD researcher at UWTSD focusing on Medieval English children and childhood.
Author of 3 books. Owner of 3 cats. Loves children’s history, domestic culture, and the history of medicine.
Works for @histchild.bsky.social
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Holly @hollyrowe.bsky.social
Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
spinetingling @spinetingling.bsky.social Nancy Forde | Writer/Photographer | she/her🇮🇪🇨🇦🏳️🌈 MFA in Creative Writing (2026) | MA in Documentary Photography & Photojournalism (2021) | Grab a cuppa & curl up: spinetingling.substack.com (This here's my 📚 bsky. Personal bsky: @nancyfjorde.bsky.social)
Graham Mooney @histgeoghealth.bsky.social Historian of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Manc. Homebrew. Native American plants. Bees. Geography.
Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, critical medical humanities. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
David Marshall @davenextthesea.bsky.social Retired transport planner MRTPI and Dad to Chloe. Trying to stay creative in planning and transport. School governor. Unfinished PhD, P/T student @aber.ac Rock music, real ale and SAFC.
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
WiSoGeschichte @wisogeschichte.bsky.social Hier schreibt das Team der Professur für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg.
Cormac Keenan @cormac-keenan.bsky.social PhD student at DCU researching the post-conflict lives of the dependants of the Irish Revolution
Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social Historian of medicine (ish). Parent of small monsters. Enthusiastic Yorkshirewoman in Sheffield. Early Career Fellow on Covid Commemoration oral history at the British Library.
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
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
Dr Rosie Canning @drrosiecanning.bsky.social Researcher: Life Writing Studies / Creative Writing (Archival Care Histories)
Louis Shalako @louisshalako.bsky.social Louis Shalako, founder of Long Cool One Books, is the author of twenty-seven books, available from major online retailers. Louis studied Radio, TV and Journalism at Lambton College, later studying fine art.
The For Baby's Sake Trust @forbabyssake.bsky.social We provide parents with trauma-informed, therapeutic support
to #BreakTheCycle of domestic abuse and give their baby the best start in life 💜 www.forbabyssake.org.uk
Foundations – What Works Centre for Children & Families @foundationsww.bsky.social Generating and championing actionable evidence that improves services to support family relationships - foundations.org.uk.
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
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare. Writing a book on the Foundling Hospital.
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
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
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Carla Vilhena @cifccv.bsky.social
Amy Tisi @amytisi.bsky.social 🔸Lib Dem Cabinet Member Children’s Services, Education & Windsor RBWM🔸The Baby Bank Co-founder🔸SEND Parent🔸Qualified Teacher🔸The Archers fan!🔸Promoted Windsor Lib Dems, Donnelly House, Victoria Street, Windsor, SL4 1EN.
Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒
🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
admin: @bethanwatts.bsky.social
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Environmental History @envirohistory.bsky.social Environmental History is an international journal dedicated to exploring the history of human interaction with the natural world.
http://environmentalhistory.net/
Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching mental health, the emotions, and gender in 19th-century literature and culture ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid
she/her
UK
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
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
Ed Legon @edlegon.bsky.social Historian of labour/production/trade politics | Textile workers | Heritage and memory | he/him
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
@gillmurray.bsky.social @gillmurray.bsky.social
Recovery Histories @recovery-histories.bsky.social Recovery Histories is a project that investigates the histories of child sexual abuse, trauma and recovery in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1950s to present day). It is co-produced with survivors and practitioners and funded by Wellcome.
Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
Claudia Soares @claudiajsoares.bsky.social Historian of social care, family, and emotions in the long 19th century. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Views my own 🙄
Kate Wilson @katekatewilson.bsky.social Historian of culture, care, class and the city. Research Associate, Newcastle University.