Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social 🌳 A charity with the unique purpose of helping people to discover their place in history.
📜 Preserving the records of everyday lives & promoting family histories.
📍 Explore more: sog.org.uk
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #HistoryMatters
OldRailwayAccidents @rwldproject.bsky.social Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester.
#RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200
www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
Emily Gee @ejngee.bsky.social Heritage, people and place. Church buildings. Author of ‘Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman’ (2025). Bike Zambia for World Bicycle Relief. Love an outdoor swim.
National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange @ncace.bsky.social National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange (NCACE). Supporting knowledge exchange and collaboration between Higher Education and the Arts
NCACE is part of the School of Advanced Study
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
University of York @york.ac.uk We’re a leading UK university and part of the Russell Group 🦆
See news, events and find out more about York at: york.ac.uk
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma.bsky.social Arts & Humanities Impact Officer @hrcyork.bsky.social • PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Formerly public engagement @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities @torchoxford2013.bsky.social TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford.
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Wiltshire VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social The Victoria County History of Wiltshire. New to BlueSky and happy to be here.
Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social History, Scotland. Probably writing about material culture, costume, household accounts, letters, recipe books, and the fine grain detail of Scottish royal revenue.
Website: https://vanishedcomforts.org/about/
IPR @uniofbathipr.bsky.social We aim to further the public good through #research into issues of significant relevance to #policy debate and decision-making.
Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de PhD Candidate @UniLeipzig.bsky.social | '22 @Harvard.edu Fellow | Theory and History of Antisemitism, Critical Theory, Women's and Gender History #TransnatHist
▓ https://postkulturwissenschaften.de/
▓ https://christiankleindienst.com/
Sarah Knoll @sarahmknoll.bsky.social Historian - Refugee Studies | Cold War | History of Austria | International organizations https://linktr.ee/SarahMKnoll
Dr Laura Harrison @lauraharrison.bsky.social Historian | Knitter | Senior Heritage Engagement Officer at Historic Environment Scotland | Canadian in Scotland | Often outside | She/her | Views my own- I Ian Walsh @ianwalensis.bsky.social History | Law | Books
Interested in historical methods, legal history, genealogy, history of inquests, the family, and migration.
Dr Will Wyeth @willwyeth.bsky.social Archaeologist & historian (mainly castles). Curator of History @ English Heritage. Views mine, he/him.
Work stuff: https://linktr.ee/willwyeth; header: Sanam Khatibi.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Radhika Natarajan @imperialhistorian.bsky.social 💁🏾 Imperial Historian
📝 Race, Ethnicity, Migration, Multiculturalism
🦉 @reed_college_
📕 Hear Our Voices - out now from Quarto Kids!
https://linktr.ee/radhikanatarajan
Jakob Burnham @jakobburnham.bsky.social Historian of France and the Early Modern World, Indian Ocean Colonialism, Notaries, and Urban Social History in Texas.
Often professional, sometimes a silly goose ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Laura Burnett @tokeneffort.bsky.social Archaeologist. Mainly metal objects, coins, and coin like things. Fascinated by money and society in all periods. Researching 17th century trade tokens at Exeter. Former FLO.
Author: 50 finds from Somerset and 50 Post Medieval and Modern finds
Janet Dickinson @janetdickinson.bsky.social Historian, tutor. Curious about things, mostly early modern. Teaches for Conted in Oxford and NYU in London.
Marion McGarry @marionmcgarry.bsky.social Irish heritage, folklore, vernacular architecture and landscape. Author of books. Contributor to RTE Brainstorm. Lecturer ATU. Views my own.
https://www.rte.ie/author/1241485-marion-mcgarry/
Penny Duggan @pennyduggan.bsky.social Archives | Local History | Family History
Bexley, Blackfen, Kent, London, Ireland
Archives Officer @BexleyArchives
Chair of Lamorbey and Sidcup Local History Society
http://blackfenpastandpresent.com
Dr Duncan Berryman @dberryman.bsky.social Medieval archaeologist
Editor of the Castle Studies Journal • Secretary of the Historic Farm Building Group • Vice President of the Ulster Archaeological Society
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com Student success w/ a HigherEd perspective. Associate Director T&L & Student Success at UoM Library & Academic Lead for Student Success. Constantly tilting at windmills. Often seen reading, riding & running about. NTF/CATE/PFHEA, data and pedagogy obsessed
The Sensational Museum @sensationalmuseum.bsky.social Using what we know about disability to change how museums work for everyone. Find out more: https://sensationalmuseum.org/
HinterhausBlume @hinterhausblume.bsky.social Silent Reader
History, Science, Tennis, F1
Jennifer Young @printlady.bsky.social 17th century book history, Shakespeare, ex-pat, all things early modern print culture
A Monitor Lizard @monitorlizard.bsky.social Reptile.
Socialist. Green Party voter.
Marathon Runner
How strange it is to be anything at all.
Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
Michael Donnay @mjdonnay.bsky.social Community Manager @softwaresaved.bsky.social
MSc Digital Humanities ‘22 @ucldh.bsky.social
Recovering stage & production manager
He/Him | 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 | #DHmakes #Baking
Shane Ewen @shaneewen.bsky.social Professor of urban history @lbu-rae.bsky.social, ed. @urbanhistory.bsky.social, trustee @historictownstrust.bsky.social
Before Grenfell - free OA https://uolpress.co.uk/book/before-grenfell/
Free resources - https://forged-by-fire.wixsite.com/home?fbcli
Paula Waatainen @sosopolitical.bsky.social Socials Studies teacher ed & researcher at Vancouver Island University. EdD Learning Sciences. Designing authentic assessments of competency, civic education, historical thinking, deliberation, and place-based learning. Music fan! BC history nerd!
Wilson McLeod @wilsonmcleod.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Gaelic, University of Edinburgh
Dùn Èideann
Paola Buonadonna @paolabuonadonna.bsky.social Exiled Italian doing comms work in London. Author of 'Life Drawing for the Terrified', Point Hill' and 'Leaving Azzurro Behind'. All opinions personal.
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Hilde De Weerdt @hildedw.bsky.social Professor Chinese & Global History KULeuven | IISH Amsterdam
global intellectual history | social history of infrastructures | digital research design
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9670-674X
Global Recipes in the Early Modern World @globalrecipes2024.bsky.social ECR Conference | May 2024 | University of Cambridge | Support: SSHMedicine, BSHScience, @camhistory.bsky.social, @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Jack Newman @jack-newman.com Project Leader Victoria County History 'The Making of Maidstone'. Associate Fellow @ihr.bsky.social and Honorary Fellow @memsunikent.bsky.social. Formerly @ Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities & Literary Criticism.
https://www.jack-newman.com/
Cat Evans @crevans.bsky.social Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social
Interested in books, beads, birds and baking.
Sarah book-bee @sarahbookbee.bsky.social Welsh, book addict. Historian & genealogist. Astrophotography/photography, cookery, fossils, arts & crafts. Fibromyalgia.
MSc Gen., Strathclyde. AdDip Local History, Oxon. BA (hons) Hist., OU.
Peadar Ó Muircheartaigh @pomuirch.bsky.social Àrd-òraidiche | Senior Lecturer @ University of Edinburgh | Historical (sometimes socio-)linguistics of Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx | manuscripts and literature | dialectology | Gaelic Caribbean | Maigh Eoch #siaradcymraeg- T C Ryan @teesdalehistorian.bsky.social Qualified Genealogist and PhD Candidate at Teesside University.
Researching people found in 18th Century deeds in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Blog: https://bygone-teesdale-folk.org.uk
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
Andrea Ciribuco @andreaciribuco.bsky.social (he/him/lui) Lecturer in Italian, University of Galway. Passionate about translation, migration, intercultural communication.
Member of the Young Academy Ireland
All views are mine, or something that I read in a book.
Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social Fellow of the Society of Indexers, ex-archaeologist, also family historian, mum, bell ringer, knitter and learning the cornet. Easily found elsewhere. https://abookindexer.com/
Critical Moment Theatre @criticalmoment.bsky.social urgent stories from here and now
www.criticalmoment.co.uk
Joanne Ella Parsons @joparsons.bsky.social Associate Professor of Popular Literature and Culture at Falmouth University
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Anne McLaughlin @admclaughlin.bsky.social Librarian, art historian, medievalist, and generally interested in most things, digitisation services manager @TrinCollLibCam.bsky.social (All opinions my own) | formerly @anmcl001 on Twitter…
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Delphine Demelas @delphinedemelas.bsky.social Medievalist, #Digital humanist, Digital Medievalist executive board member. #Medieval Francophonie enthusiast.
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Hildegardis @seito.bsky.social MA History @UofT (Late Qing/Republican China, Gender & Sexuality). Official Anglo-Catholic (TEC) parish void cat. Book hoarder & unserious content generator. Social Studies educator (7-12). 🏳️🌈 and Faithful. Opinions mine. She/her/她/佢
Carl AF @carlos8.bsky.social Social Democrat, Reformed Banker and Genealogist.
Kiwi in Brisbane, sometimes Andalucia. Flygtning fra Danmark.
Argula @argular.bsky.social Project Curator (Cataloguing Lead), SOAS Library
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
⭐️ For book updates & UK OFFERS join the Yale in London newsletter: bit.ly/YaleBookNews ⭐️
Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
Richard III Society of Canada @richardiiisocca.bsky.social What it says on the label. Interested in late 15th C with a focus on the Wars of the Roses but promotes anything medieval of interest. All photos are our own unless otherwise listed.
Andy Mascola @andymascola.bsky.social husband, father, novelist, host of PEOPLE ARE THE ENEMY (@peoplertheenemy.bsky.social), and senior writer for Surviving the Golden Age about.me/AndyMascola
Gerard McKeever @mckeever.bsky.social Scottish Literature, Regionalism, Romanticism, Enlightenment, Book History
D’Maris Coffman @ddcoffman.bsky.social Incoming Executive Dean, ASB, University of Wollongong; UCL, The Bartlett: Prof of Infrastructure Economics and Finance @johnprowle.bsky.social
Peter R. Martin @peterrmartin.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Cultural and Historical Geography at @uniofnottingham.bsky.social. Interested in critical histories of Arctic exploration and knowledge production.
linktr.ee/peter_r_martin
David Pyle @davidmpyle.bsky.social Volcanologist at the University of Oxford: volcanic histories, imaginaries, resources and futures. https://curatingcrises.omeka.net/ https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/rethinking-natural-resources/ https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/vesuvius-22
Paul Frainer @paolorenato.bsky.social Anglo-Italian. 2nd Gen Immigrant. Doing #Digital in #Planning and #Government. #Strategist. #Advisor. Pensatore profondo apparentemente 🤷♂️) On a #yoga mat, playing bass or dancing. ❤️ red wine and #digital #politics, #localgov, #policy #adhd 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇺
David Turton @davidturton.bsky.social Haptic heuristics, multisensory multitudes, hab conflab, texture texxture text
Clare Corbould @clarecorbould.bsky.social Historian 🗃️| Associate Professor.
Books: Harvard UP; 2026 The New Press.
Bylines: Conversation; WaPo; Guardian.
She/her 🌈 | Personal account
Diya Gupta @diyagupta.bsky.social Literary scholar, cultural historian. Senior Lecturer in Public History, City St George's, University of London. First book 'India in the Second World War: An Emotional History' (2023) #happyeveryday
Matt Bristow @eric180uk.bsky.social Senior Archaeological Investigator @ Historic England. Landscape Archaeologist. Pub Lover. Cricket Tragic. Guitar Hero. BHAFC fan. Husband. Dad. Views my own.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social He/him. Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
linktr.ee/olimould
Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.
Another Damned (AD) Medievalist @admedievalist.bsky.social Carolingianist w/sidelines before & after, prosopography, dbases, SFFH nerd, teacher, crafty artsy pet mom, con panelist, soprano, Prof of not-US History. ND & will fight you on casual misuse of “trigger*” (IYKYK) she/her.
Views my own, not my employers
Dr Joanne Norcup @drjn.bsky.social Historical Geographer
YPCCS University of Warwick (Caribbean histories & geographies)
Also Nottingham and OU Geog Depts.
(Martial) Arts, photography, films, comedy, books, libraries, archives, trees, pottery. Always curious.
https://jonorcup.com
Beatrice Cannelli @beatricecannelli.bsky.social 🎓PhD in DH at School of Advanced Study, University of London
📚Researching born digital cultural heritage (web and social media archives), with the help of my cat-assistant 🐈
History of Emotions (NACHE) @nachemotion.bsky.social The North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) 🌎 Promoting and organizing publications, colloquia, conferences, & more! https://nachemotion.wordpress.com
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).
Amanda Lanzillo @amandazillo.bsky.social Historian of labor, technology & Islam in South Asia | Asst. Prof UChicago SALC | she/her | 📕Pious Labor now out from UC Press: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/pious-labor/epub-pdf
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
B.S.W. Barootes @barootes.bsky.social Medievalist. Asst. Prof. of English at MUN, Grenfell.
Articles on final -e, the Pearl-poet, and monkish burps. Wm Beauchamp fanboy. Cursed by Artemis. (he/him/his)
bswbarootes.com
Dr Bethany L. Donovan @bethanyldonovan.bsky.social Historian of medieval London, focusing on material culture and counterfeit goods
Alex Hibberts @hibbertsalex.bsky.social PDRA in Early Modern History
Land, Environment, Economics & Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter.
Environmental & Climate Historian. Little Ice Age. Past biodiversity.
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/46350-alexander-hibberts/about
Su Westerman 📷 @suwesterman.bsky.social Amateur photographer of historic architecture - portfolio at www.flickr.com/photos/suwesterman. Historic Graffiti Researcher & General Guide @cburycathedral.bsky.social.
Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social American-Australian poet; Pushcart and Best of Net nominee; Black Bough Poetry, Fevers of the Mind, Ice Floe Press, San Antonio Review, Kalonopia, Headline Poetry & Press, Rebelle Society, Wombwell Rainbow… #BLM #LGBTQIA #Climate #Disability
Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Martina Mampieri @martinamampieri.bsky.social MCF stagiaire (Ass. Professor) @ Sorbonne (Paris 1) • Advisory Board @ H-Judaic & EMoDiR • prev MSCA fellow @ Penn & Modena, HebrewU, Oxford, Harvard, Göttingen
#earlymodern and #modern Jewish history and #BookHistory
📍 Paris
Nathalie Cohen @nathaliecohen.bsky.social Mum, archaeologist 🏺
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Richard Legay @richardlegay.bsky.social Historian interested in media & memory.
Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Göttingen
Project coordinator (PhotoTogo) @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social
Toby Donegan-Cross @tdonegancross.bsky.social PhD student (ESRC) at durhamhistory interested in late medieval monasteries. DurhamMEMSA Co-chair. Editor of John's Chronicle.
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Environmental Humanities Research Hub @ehrh.bsky.social Environmental Humanities Research Hub (EHRH) at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us-6/institutes-and-centres/environmental-humanities-research-hub
Bill Mitchell @askbillmitchell.bsky.social 💙💙💙
A tech geek that will discuss just about anything: Technology, Business, Music, Movies with some politics sprinkled in for flavor.
I do follow back, I do engage, and I post way too often.
I also speak fluent sarcasm.
💙💙💙
Full Stack Feminism @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' is a 2 year project, funded by AHRC & IRC (UK-Ireland Collaboration in the DH awards), and part of the IFTe Network.
Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social Historian of Catholicism, Italy, and environments | Lecturer in early modern history at Uni of Manchester | Reviews Editor at Journal of Religious History. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joshua-rushton/