Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Specialist journalist: WIRED.com and more. Press Gazette Transport Journalist of the Year 2018. Finalist: Travel Photographer of the Year 2024 https://authory.com/carltonreid Signal: carltonreid.67
Tim Milnes @tmilnes.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Literature and Philosophy, University of Edinburgh. Writer of books. Reposter of other people's cool stuff. Connoisseur of Romantic trash and the excremental sublime.
Postcards From History @postcardshistory.bsky.social Every postcard has a story.
What begins as a small piece of card stock often opens a window into another world.
postcardsfromhistory.substack.com
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Hannah Rosefield @hannahrosefield.bsky.social editing at The Dial and elsewhere
sometime Victorianist, London Library emerging writer 25/26
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Dave Weasel @daveweasel.bsky.social Comedian, podcaster, etc. 5x billboard comedy chart topper
Journal of European Periodical Studies (JEPS) @esprit-jeps.bsky.social Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
Alison Young @youngalison.bsky.social Ran way from the law to join the music hall. Now often to be found running around with a clipboard organising events & the archive for the British Music Hall Society. Would rather be researching & writing…
My blog: https://musichallalice.wordpress.com
British Music Hall Society @musichallsociety.bsky.social 🎭 Home of Music Hall & Variety
Celebrating the acts who built popular entertainment
Registered charity · Est. 1963 · President: Su Pollard
🔗 britishmusichallsociety.com
Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social Writer of nonsenses for “the wireless”, contributor to Private Eye & the Guardian. I like books.
Olivia Mitchell @handle.invalid Historian of the British Empire, race, gender and newspapers. Lecturer in Modern History at University of Manchester
Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social Connecting you to art 🖼 Art UK is an art education charity and digital space that connects everyone with the UK's public art collection.
Take part in the #OnlineArtExchange every Thursday!
https://artuk.org/
https://linktr.ee/artukdotorg
John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered historian, folkie & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Director of @baysar.bsky.social
Extraordinary Stories of Britain Podcast @storiesofbritain.bsky.social Fun and informative award-nominated history podcast. Listen at www.storiesofbritain.com
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social FRHistS SFHEA; Vice President @bars.bsky.social; Senior Lecturer @newcastleuni.bsky.social;
🇮🇪 & 🏴 Studies, 1798, labouring class poetry, transatlantic networks, MedHums; Member @thencps.bsky.social
Didn’t come up the Lagan in a bubble
Anne Rodrick @chattyfootnote.bsky.social Historian of 19thc Europe; “Lecturing the Victorians” now out via Bloomsbury. Slightly goofy teacher, mom, bell-ringer, Dem. My grandpa was one of Harry Truman’s fishing buddies.
Adele Guyton @adeleguyton.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellow of the FNRS (Belgium) interested in speculative fiction since c. 1890 and especially its material culture. Singer, sewist, pun-lover. Made in the US for immediate export. She/her.
John Morton @drjmorton.bsky.social Assoc Prof of English Lit and Deputy Head of Humanities and Social Sciences at Uni of Greenwich. All views my own
Prof Alyson Brown @interwarcrime.bsky.social Historian @ Edge Hill University just embarking on BlueSky. concerned about the world. Views my own.
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer - Aberystwyth University's Integrated Foundation Year Programme.
I mostly research and write about the corset in (neo-)Victorian fiction. Web Manager for the VPFA.
Clarinettist, pianist, recorder player. Occasional potter and painter.
Gregory Billam @gregorybillam.bsky.social Modern British Historian | PhD in British and Australian Communism | Articles and Book Reviews in Contemporary British History, Labour History Review, Labour History, and Twentieth Century Communism | Web and Social Media Editor @sslh.bsky.social
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Lecturer in Public History @keeleuniversity.bsky.social. Formerly Leverhulme Trust ECF at Liverpool.
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
Craig Stafford @craigstafford.bsky.social British Social History, C19 Crime & Punishment. Co-I: http://www.womenandalcohol.net (@ncn_pl funded project). Teaches @livunihistory
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Dr Samuel Hume @samuelhume.bsky.social Public historian in British Imperial History | He/Him | Host of Winds of Change, Pax Britannica, and the History of Witchcraft Podcast
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.
Oskar Jensen @oskarjensen.bsky.social Novelist, Historian, BBC New Generation Thinker, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | Song, streets, balladry, Jacobins, Whodunnits | If Love Should Die | Helle in Venice out 18.2.27 | he/him
Maria Juko @mariajuko.bsky.social 18th/19th ct and self-help lit, Neo-Victorian, adaptation studies, biofiction, and teacher (Eng/Bio) in Potsdam (Germany), she/her
Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital History at UCL. All things census related + agrarian/industrial development of Britain 16th-19th centuries.
https://www.joshuarhodeshistorian.com/
Dr Alexander Jackson @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social Curator @nfmofficial.bsky.social Former utility DEF. Views my own.
2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize Winner for Football's Great War by Pen & Sword.
Melvin Wevers @melvinwevers.bsky.social Assistant Professor Computational History - General Chair CHR - trail running - wine - games - music - https://www.melvinwevers.nl
Punch's Pocket Book Archive @punchspocketbook.bsky.social Punch's Pocket Book Archive is an international ANR-funded project based at @universite-caen.bsky.social
It aims to deliver a fully searchable archive from a complete run of Punch's Pocket Books (1843-1881), an ancillary publication of Punch.
Victorian Gem @victoriangem.bsky.social Director, Consultant. MA in 19th Century Studies Alumni. Love animals, sewing, art, nature & all things Victorian ❤️
Luke Blackburn @lukeburnie.bsky.social 
Dr Liam Mcloughlin ☕ @leelum.bsky.social Snr Lecturer @ Edge Hill - Social Media, Pol Com, Content Moderation & Politics. 🗳️ Also Convenor @techpolicy.bsky.social
Spends more time posting GIFs than working.
https://www.Leelum.com
Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social Historian & Curator | Senior Lecturer
in French & British History of Art 1600-1900 at University of Edinburgh |Director, Global Premodern Art MSc |Ceramics,Glass & History of Collecting
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
David Coates @davidjcoates.bsky.social Cultural historian and Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. Researching theatre in the long nineteenth century and queer theatre histories. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Regular theatre, exhibition and museum visitor. Chocoholic 🍫
Helen Kingstone @helenkingstone.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 19thC literature at Royal Holloway, London.
I research how living memory becomes narrative history in novels, textbooks, oral history, panoramas, biography & via generations, including Digital Humanities
Royal Holloway Centre for Victorian Studies @rhul-cvs.bsky.social Account of the internationally recognised Centre for Victorian Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London. Co-directed by @helenkingstone.bsky.social, Izzy Barrett-Lally and Heathcliff Newman
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
Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social The Family History Federation, supporting #Genealogy and the membership of #FamilyHistory societies worldwide 🌳 #FamilyHistoryFriday familyhistoryfederation.com / http://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social Supporting history teachers to bring rigorous, accessible and life enhancing history into classrooms for all young people. Find out more www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk #WeAreSHP #SHPUnderstanding #SHPCurriculumPATHS
Today In History with The Retrospectors @theretrospectors.bsky.social What happened #OnThisDay?
Ten minute, DAILY HISTORY PODCAST with your hosts @ollymann.bsky.social @rebeccamessina.bsky.social & @arionmcnicoll.bsky.social
1,000 episodes and counting! 👇
💰 patreon.com/Retrospectors
🎧 pod.link/Retrospectors
Paul Ward @profpaulward.bsky.social Former history professor. Co-production of historical knowledge. Critical study of Britishness. Working with Kirklees Local TV on military veterans of African descent in the UK since the 1960s. Free Palestine.
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, UK. Don't leave the visual world. All poorly thought out views his own, don't blame his peers/employers. Contact at 'archives' on https://tinyurl.com/58tkxrb7
He/him.
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
University English @univeng.bsky.social Represents university and college English depts in the UK
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
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
British Association for American Studies @officialbaas.bsky.social Official Bluesky Account for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS). We promote, support & encourage the study of the United States in the UK. Posts by the Social Media team.
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
British Records Association @britrecs.bsky.social The British Records Association is a UK charity, working for archives since 1932. Please become a member and support our work https://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/
BSSH @bssh.bsky.social British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
History Teacher Educators' Network @htenuk.bsky.social HTEN UK represents those who work with and have responsibility for the professional education, development and training of beginning and serving history teachers.
Email: HTENUK@outlook.com
https://www.hten.org.uk
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social The National Humanities Alliance is a coalition of organizations that advocates for the value of the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill.
Learn more at www.nhalliance.org.
The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social The Bibliographical Society exists to promote the study of the history of the book, for librarians, collectors, historians and book lovers everywhere.
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
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.
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
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard--posts in a personal capacity, mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap.
https://deidrelynch.org
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
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
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. 🗃️
Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.
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
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
- S @sasnews.bsky.social @sasnews.bsky.social
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Julie Sorge Way @sorgeway.bsky.social PhD, teacher, researcher in DH & 19c women’s periodicals, general lover of in-between spaces 💙
Thomas Smits @thomassmits.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Digital History and AI @ University of Amsterdam | visual and digital history | http://thomassmits.eu/ | co-director Amsterdam Computational History Lab https://achl.nl