The Rest Is Politics @therestpolitics.bsky.social A view on politics at home & abroad, while bringing back the lost art of disagreeing agreeably with Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell. Powered by Fuse Energy⚡
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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Adam Kay @amateuradam.bsky.social BAFTA for best writer lol.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Dana Gould @danagould.bsky.social Comedian, Writer, The Dana Gould Hour Podcast, Hanging With Dr. Z, I was Gex (you read that right)
Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social U.S. Senator from Connecticut.
Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social Journalist, broadcaster, Mum of 2 boys, owner of 2 cocker spaniels
Unbelievable Britain - YouTube 🎧
BBC Newsnight 🎥 📱
And Then Came Breast Cancer 🎧
BAFTA RTS Sony Pink News AIB British Podcast Award winner
Jude Rowley @juderowley.bsky.social
James Ball @jamesrball.com Political editor @ The New World
Opinion @ The i Paper
Fellow @ Tech Policy Press
Fellow @ Demos
PhD researcher @ UCL Laws
newsletter @ techtris
Latest book: The Other Pandemic – How QAnon Contaminated The World. 🏳️🌈
https://www.jamesrball.com/
Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social I am America’s Best Christian™. But you knew that. You can find exclusive content here: https://www.patreon.com/c/MrsBettyBowers
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Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.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
Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
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Chris Tiplady @christiplady.bsky.social Haematologist. Medical Education. Realistic Medicine. Cycling.
🚴♂️ to work!
Blogs https://www.rcpath.org/discover-pathology/news/blog-the-empty-chair.html
Cinzia Greco @cinziag.bsky.social Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Mental health
(https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco)
Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)
Dr. Jeremy Swist @metalclassicist.bsky.social Assistant Teaching Professor of Classics at Michigan State University. Late antiquity & classical reception in metal music. he/him
“Julian Augustus” out with Oxford University Press: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/julian-augustus-9780197787519
School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University @globalaffairslu.bsky.social
Armand D’Angour @armanddangour.bsky.social Lover of words, player of music
μηδεὶς ἄμουσος εἰσίτω
Juju Bee @notbeforenoon.bsky.social Artist, atheist, autistic, disabled. Living on my home planet, O'ahu.
Don’t follow me if all you post is politics. I have more than enough followers. I need art, music, history, and amusement.
No DMs unless I know you or have requested you DM me.
My Chemical Romance @mcrofficial.bsky.social mychemicalromance.com/tour
Dr. Max Lempriere @thephdpeople.com
Posting a #PhDDailyThought every day.
Founder of The PhD People — practical support and motivation for PhD students.
Free One Page #PhD Template: https://linkthread.eu/thephdpeople
Mark Lewis @marklewi5.bsky.social PhD candidate in History: Everyday Giving in Early Modern England, University of Birmingham
Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social The ERC project lead by Stefanie Gänger, with Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, and Lea Trigilia at Heidelberg University explores the history of fever in societies within or tied to the Atlantic World.
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fever-project
Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Editor.
tinabrown.substack.com
sirharrysummit.org
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Dr Liz Webb @lizwebb.bsky.social PhD on Audience Sensory Experience in Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. Writing on more Thucydides and Plutarch. Open University Visiting Fellow.
Sarah Moran @lc-beguines.bsky.social Historian of art & women, Faculty of Theology @UiO.no.
Author of Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages (Routledge 2026).
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8692-4321
www.SJMoranEditing.com
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
CSMBR Pisa @csmbr-pisa.bsky.social The Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance (CSMBR) is an international institute of advanced studies in the history of medicine and science, based at the Domus Comeliana in Pisa.
Paul S-H @pauls-h.bsky.social Founder of parkrun
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
James Kennaway @jgkennaway.bsky.social Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
Adam Toon @adamtoonphilos.bsky.social Director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences. Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter. Author of Mind as Metaphor (OUP, 2023) and Models as Make-Believe (Palgrave, 2012).
Joel Montfort @montfort.me #TX politics. Political Scientist. Democrat. #ODAT #texasdemocrat, #txlege
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Coreen McGuire @coreenanne.bsky.social Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History @Durham_uni #dishist #histtech #histmed #ownviews #she #her
The Victorian Hand @victorianhand.bsky.social @ukri.org AHRC Standard Research Grant project (2024-28) exploring historical & contemporary understandings of the human hand. Hosted by @lcflondon.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & medhistoryman.bsky.social
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
William Shatner @williamshatner.bsky.social
Anna Greenwood @profannagreenwood.bsky.social Prof of Modern Health History @ University of Nottingham. Health Humanities, history of 20/21C health consumerism, and public health. Now researching the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship. Used to write on Empire. Account personal.
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/
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference (LHPC) @l-h-p-c.bsky.social LHPC 2026: Legacy and Lens will take place from 24th-26th June at Lancaster University. Our Call for Papers is open now until the 28th April, email the committee via our Linktree for more details!
https://linktr.ee/lhpc2026
Chris Dixon @avalanchechris.bsky.social Mental health book author who is attempting to archive as much of MAGA's misdeeds on Bluesky as humanly possible.
Terraclash.co.uk fantasy board game. Sign up to the mailing list and get an exclusive Character if you back the Kickstarter.
CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare,
@UniStrathclyde
& @CaledonianNews
Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine 📚💊
https://tinyurl.com/3y2u52bw
Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
Sarah Chadwick @sarahlchadwick.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Leeds in partnership with Thackray Museum of Medicine, specialising in blood donation and racial othering in Leeds and Bradford since 1946 with a focus on public health material and the blood donation space.
Lon Wagner @lonwags.bsky.social Book author, "The Fever: The Most Fatal Plague in American History." Dad of daughters. Dog walker. Wildflower grower. Grateful Dead >>Billy Strings. LonWagner.com
Dr Francesca Elizabeth Richards @ferichardsuk.bsky.social Asst lecturer & PhD in #coral
Materiality, medicine, family, relig, art, books
Mama x3, usually on the beach!
Publications ⏬️
https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2360935
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae041
Lancaster University @lancasteruni.bsky.social Lancaster University’s official account. We’re a highly ranked collegiate university with a global reputation for teaching and research
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/
Sam Coates @samcoatessky.bsky.social Deputy Political Editor, Sky News
Co-host Politics at Jack and Sam’s Podcast
Kirstin Eccles @kirstineccles.bsky.social Mental Health Lead in a special school, doctoral student researching interoception curriculum/wellbeing/ regulation. Likes cats, garden, tea, bed.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Peter Garbett @petergarbett.bsky.social Retired software engineer on jet engine control systems . Owned by a small dog and partner. #fbpe and liberal enough to be occasionally annoyed by the Liberals. Watches mathologer videos and Tim Hunkin drilling holes .
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
@amywok1.bsky.social @amywok1.bsky.social
Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UniHeidelberg/EHESS Paris on Slavery, Medical & Legal History 🌎 Part of the ERC-project "Fever - Global Histories of (a) Disease"
Benjamin Dalton @benbgdalton.bsky.social Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Global Affairs at Lancaster University. Queer Medical Humanities and Philosophies of the Hospital! 🏥🏳️🌈 Founder of the Queer Medical Humanities Network + programme lead for MA Global Medical and Health Humanities
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Matthías Aron Ólafsson @matthiasaolafsson.bsky.social Icelander in Ireland. PhD Candidate @historytcd.bsky.social and Fellow @tlrhub.bsky.social. Social and political history of global Scandinavia and the Nordic region. Researching governance and policymaking in the Danish Oldenburg Empire in the long 18th c.
Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA.
Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre.
Early Modernist.
Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project.
Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
Richard Scott @richardascott.bsky.social Husband. Father. Geordie. English. British. European. Centrist. Rejoiner.
Pro NATO, Ukraine, housebuilding, growth, enterprise.
Dislikes extremism, authoritarianism, nationalism, oligarchy.
Harpenden LibDem Town Councillor.
All views my own.
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
Dr Eleri Cousins @elericousins.bsky.social Asst Prof in Roman Archaeology at Durham. Likes all things Roman Britain/Gaul/Germany and Roman religion, with a side helping of art and epigraphy. Also likes trees and hills.
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham. c18th history, letters, body and Mary Toft (the woman who gave birth to rabbits). PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
Elena Mary @elenamary.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
https://elenamary.co.uk
https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2024.2423428
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Lauren Ryall-Waite @archaeomuse.bsky.social Head Curator at the Science&Industry Museum in Manchester, currently enjoying maternity leave and exploring the West Yorkshire countryside with a tiny person in tow. Medical historian with a background in archaeology, often found knitting with tea nearby.
Abby Beckett @abbybeckett.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University
History of Medicine
Working on corpse medicine 1550-1700
David M. Whitford @davidmwhitford.bsky.social European Reformations historian. Cultural history. Making of a Reformation Man: Martin Luther and the Construction of Masculinity. Routledge, 2025. Gender. Embodiment. (The pic is me, just fyi. I found it tucked among my mom’s things. c. 1978)
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Gavin Beinart-Smollan @beismo.bsky.social Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Yiddish family letters and the Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. Very amateur genealogist.
Dr Rachel Bynoth @rachelbynoth.bsky.social Historian of 18th/19th c. Family, lifecycle, gender, emotion esp. anxiety, distant comms and politics. Bath Spa Senior Lecturer. PhD: PM George Canning and family’s letters/anxiety https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/rachel-bynoth/
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
James Blunt @jamesblunt.com Yeah, that guy. Cockney rhyming slang for the good stuff; Proof that one song is all you need. New music out now! https://linktr.ee/jamesblunt
Maitlis @maitlis.bsky.social Co host @thenewsagents .
Formerly @bbcNewsnight - interviews with Prince Andrew Donald Trump Bill Clinton Mark Zuckerberg etc etc .
j m gabriel, a circus of faults and vices @jmgabriel.bsky.social #histmed, pharma, public health, drugs. Sometimes IP, bioethics, critical med ed, pedagogies of care. Gardening. N Florida. a small axe. also, a swear bear. personal account, obviously
Lexie Henning @lexie-henning.bsky.social 🤓 Co-Founder @theozymandiasp1.bsky.social; 🎤 Ancient Office Hours podcast; 🇬🇷 Classics PhD student @ Bristol Uni; 🎮 studying transmedia adaptation & classical reception in The Last of Us; ☀️ Luceo Non Uro 🔥; ☕️ tea connoisseur
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
RCSEd Library & Archive @rcsedlibandarchive.bsky.social News, collection highlights and heritage stories from the Library & Archive at Surgeons' Hall/Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh #histmed
https://archiveandlibrary.rcsed.ac.uk
https://www.rcsed.ac.uk/career-hub/learning-resources/library-and-archive
Susan Orlean @susanorlean.bsky.social Pencil pusher
The HPS Podcast @hpspodcast.bsky.social Award-winning podcast on the history, philosophy & social studies of science brought to you by graduate students from the University of Melbourne.
Hosted by @tespiteri.bsky.social
New episodes fortnightly.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/thehpspodcast
Eli Anders @elianders.bsky.social Historian of medicine and public health, singer, podcast enthusiast, Lecturer at Princeton
Bernhard Leitner @bmleitner.bsky.social Historian of science/medicine. Brain science, neurology and psychiatry. Mainly D-A-CH and JP-KOR-TW. Vienna based.
Interested in history and philosophy of science and medicine.
日本・대한・臺灣・医学史・科学史・精神神経学史・科学哲学
https://meduniwien.academia.edu/BernhardLeitner
Caroline Rance @quackdoctor.bsky.social Writer focusing on the history of medicine, especially patent remedies and fraudsters at thequackdoctor.com and thequackdoctor.substack.com
Also co-host of literature podcast @shewrotetoo.bsky.social
Mathilde Tahar @drmathildetahar.bsky.social Leverhulme Research fellow in Philosophy of Biology at UCL working on animal inventions.
Animal behaviour, evolution, ecology. And chacma baboons 🐒
Also: I am a Bergson lover, dog lover, cat lover, and running addict.
https://www.drmathildetahar.com
Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social History & philosophy of biology | Author- Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder: Romanticizing Evolution (Routledge) | Chief of Staff and University Secretary, University of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto | he/him | 🐋🌱🏳️🌈
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Alexandre Klein @alexandreklein.bsky.social Philosophe et historien de la santé
Responsable de : http://histoiresante.blogspot.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-klein-122788363/
Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social Professor @ Boston U, History & Philosophy of Science—esp Philosophy of Geosciences, Director Phi-Geo Research Group, Assoc @ Harvard U. Hist Sci, Radcliffe Fellow Alum. Settler, wife, & mother. 📸s my crappy phone.
Webpage: https://bokulich.org/
Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social Writer
My biography of Henri Bergson – Herald of a Restless World – is out now!
"The most intellectually stimulating book I read this year.” John Banville
She/Her
https://linktr.ee/eherring
Amy Louise @amylouhistory.bsky.social PhD Candidate (social history of defamation) at Lancaster University 🌹 Assistant Editor at History Today 📖 Co-founder and former Art Director of EPOCH Magazine
Rebecca Henderson @rebecca-henderson.bsky.social PhD student at Lancaster Uni, researching end of life inequalities in NW England.
Nic Wray @nicwray.bsky.social PhD student #tinnitus and #hyperacusis. Chartered PR Practitioner. Northerner in East Anglia. Bookworm, yarn & thread maven.
Stefan Bauer @stefanbauer.bsky.social Research Integrity Facilitator at King's College London. Author 'The Invention of Papal History' (Oxford University Press) http://bit.ly/PapalHistory. Historian interested in fakes and forgeries. Bsky since 23/10/23. / Views expressed are my own.