Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Author of "How to Win a Trade War"
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
@britishnerd.bsky.social @britishnerd.bsky.social
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Dr Rupert Barrett-Taylor @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social Turing Institute Research Fellow. PhD critical of targeting processes, intelligence production and the software they rely on from Sussex University. Bowel cancer survivor. All views my own.
https://rupertbarretttaylor.com
Natalie Haynes @nataliehaynes.bsky.social NYT bestselling author, broadcaster, classicist ✍️ 'Rock star mythologist' (Washington Post) IRRESISTIBLE MONSTERS, March 2027 🪶 Posts by N and team.
https://linktr.ee/nataliehaynesauthor
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
OpenARC Research Centre @openarc.bsky.social OpenARC, The Open University Arts & Humanities Research Centre, is the hub for research in the School of Arts and Humanities at The Open University. It hosts a broad range of research groups, and facilitates disciplinary and interdisciplinary research.
Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social Emeritus Prof of Organization Studies, Royal Holloway University of London, ex-Prof Warwick & Cambridge. FAcSS, FRHistS. Now mainly Brexit analysis including Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Author Brexit Unfolded (Biteback, 2021, 2023).
Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
Co-Editor of Historical Methods.
Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
Jennifer Williams @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social Northern correspondent, Financial Times
Experimental cook, purveyor of Andy Burnham content
“Cynical” - Boris Johnson
📍Manchester
Rachel Sylvester @rachelsylvester.bsky.social Political editor of The Observer. Sign up for my weekly newsletter here: https://observer.co.uk/newsletters
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LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Zoë Crowther @zoecrowther.bsky.social • political reporter @politicshome.bsky.social • “internet shepherd” of Bluesky • covering Westminster and where politics meets social media and tech
IG: http://instagram.com/zoe.crowther/ • X: @zoenora6
📍 London via Notts, Newcastle & Bristol
Meghan K. Roberts @meghankroberts.bsky.social Historian | 18thc France, sci/med, gender | Author: Sentimental Savants (UChicago) | Currently: Enlightenment public health & medical authority | she/her | My views | meghankroberts.com
Martin Spychal @martinspychal.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow & Digital Humanities Lead, History of Parliament, House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. History, politics, prints, cats. Author of 'Mapping the State' OUT NOW. bit.ly/3RQmUeK
Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social I write, act, sing, broadcast and cook. Occasionally, even for money. One third of the @quietriotpod.bsky.social with @pimlicat.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social
Support me on https://ko-fi.com/quietriotpod
Shipwreck @shipwreck75.bsky.social 30 years experience as Intel/NATO/OSINT Analyst. Retired US Navy Intelligence Analyst.
Current corporate Intelligence Analyst at Fortune 50 company with a global footprint.
Passionate about OSINT. Post things related to my work or that interest me.
Doc Sarah Lonsdale @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social Books, history & nature. Politics, 48%. Writer, Lecturer, History of journalism City University. My book Wildly Different, about women and nature is now in paperback!
Financial Times "Best Books" Summer 2025
Of course I'm a feminist!
I Never use AI
Hannah Wickes @hannahwickes.bsky.social Studying History & Archaeology of the Highlands & Islands at UHI. Non-Exec Director for Fair Tax Foundation, UK Community Foundations and Impress: the media regulator. Advisor @ Creatives for Climate. She/Her.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Scottish Centre for War Studies and Conflict Archaeology @uofgwarstudies.bsky.social Scottish Centre for War Studies & Conflict Archaeology at University of Glasgow @uofglasgow.bsky.social - Researching & Teaching conflict history from many global perspectives. Follows/likes ≠ endorsement. https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/warstudies
Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social
historian, archivist
global history @ uni potsdam
she/her
British Electricity Tracker @mygridgb.bsky.social Posts about the energy transition. Support us via http://patreon.com/MyGridGB. Contact for advocacy at http://uk.linkedin.com/in/afcrossland. With help from Durham University Energy Institute
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Nicole Grajewski @nicolegrajewski.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Sciences Po CERI | Associate with Harvard’s Managing the Atom | working on nuclear issues involving Russia and Iran | author of Russia and Iran: Partners in Defiance from Syria to Ukraine (OUP/Hurst)
PT Klein @ptklein.com Film historian and cultural critic. Movie theaters, cinema spaces, and filmgoing cultures. Radically optimistic. Writing at www.howtoreadmovies.com, Metro Weekly, Film Atlas, and elsewhere. Cohost @ColdWarCinema.com. He/Him/His.
Edinburgh's International Relations Research Group @edinburghir.bsky.social International Relations Research Group
School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/research/research-themes/international-relations-research-group
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app Theoretical Astro/Physicist:
https://chanda.science
First book:
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all Black/all Jewish. 🏳️🌈/agender/woman.
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Aurélie Basha @aureliebasha.bsky.social Historian at University of Kent: US foreign policy, Vietnam War, civil-military relations and now All-Volunteer Force. Author “I Made Mistakes: Robert McNamara and Vietnam” (CUP).
Andrew Ayton @andrewayton.bsky.social Historian (ret’d Univ of Hull, UK) working on late medieval military, maritime, soc & economic; & Napoleonic. MSS, prosopography, networks. Classical music, wildlife, cinema, coins, postal history, Dorset, France, Hungary. 🦋& #Shugborough Staffs pictures.
Graeme Callister @graemecallister.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies, York St John University, UK. Interested in everything Napoleonic, Revolutionary, and the general history of conflict.
Mike Bechthold 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @mike-bechthold.bsky.social PhD Historian | Royal Historical Society Fellow
RCAF | RAF | RNAS | RFC | Canadian Army
First World War | Second World War
Cartographer | Graphic Designer
https://mikebechthold.com/
Al Carns @alcarns.bsky.social Labour Member of Parliament for Birmingham Selly Oak and Minister for the Armed Forces in the Ministry of Defence. Served 24 years in the Royal Marines, now a Reservist and politician.
Just Security @justsecurity.org Forum on law, rights, and security. Editorial Board includes professors, top civil society attorneys, former senior government officials.
fp21 @fp21.bsky.social fp21 is an independent, nonpartisan think tank dedicated to transforming the process and institutions of American foreign policy. Learn more at fp21.org.
Dana Mendes @armchairowlbear.bsky.social Military, history, nerdery. PhDing at UNC, instructor USMA. History of U.S. Sec Coop., currently in Lat America.
Personal acct, opinions do not reflect USG/DOD
ScrivenerApp @scrivenerapp.bsky.social Scrivener for macOS, Windows and iOS. The best-selling writing app containing everything you need to craft your first draft.
Discover Scrivener and Writing Resources here: https://bit.ly/ScrivenerApp_ResourceHub
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
📺 youtube.com/@rutger.bregman
Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, podcaster, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. clubland.substack.com
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Higher Education Policy Institute @hepi-news.bsky.social The UK's only think tank dedicated to higher education.
John Morgan @johnmorgan3.bsky.social Editor (acting), @resprofnews.bsky.social
Joseph Stoltz @thehistorydr.bsky.social Military historian | Foodie | Dog Person
⚜️ #WhoDat #GoHabsGo
Website: JosephStoltz.com
Jackie Curtis @jcurtisart.bsky.social A printmaker based in Somerset producing original innovative monoprints, collagraphs, linocuts and woodblocks. Walking pathways taking a lot of photographs.
Matthew Redhead @matthewrr.bsky.social National & financial security. Former UK civil servant and financial intelligence professional. Senior Associate Fellow @rusi.bsky.social CFS. Loves ideas, cult fiction, anomalous stuff, landscapes and sanity.
Views own.
Patrick Grant @patrickgrantism.bsky.social Community Clothing - The Great British Sewing Bew - Author of LESS
Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social Bisexual history, queer history, cats. she/her
Jon Whooley @drwhoo.bsky.social Lecturer IR / Polic Sci SFSU and Adjunct at the Fall Program for Freshmen at UC.
University of Florida alum. @SFGiants & @Warriors fan.
PS: Political Science & Politics @pspolisci.bsky.social PS: Political Science & Politics is the journal of record for the discipline. Email: ps@apsanet.org. Co-editors: Lina Benabdallah, Justin Esarey, Peter Siavelis, Betina Wilkinson. apsanet.org/ps
Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social UCD Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. New books: 'Nationalism as a Way of Life', 'Why Humans Fight', 'Contemporary Sociological Theory', 'Grounded Nationalisms' and 'The Rise of Organised Brutality'.
Ariane Burgess MSP @ariane-burgess.bsky.social Scottish Green MSP for Highlands and Islands
Henry Brown @hdabrown.bsky.social Lecturer in modern European history at Cardiff University. Interested in modern Spain, military culture, and antifascism. Views own. Tired.
Chris Wykes @chriswykes1.bsky.social KCL History graduate. Retired IT Consultant. Reading FC and Surrey CCC fan. Wargaming and Military history, especially French army 1870-1914.
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Chloë J. A. Pieters @cjapieters.bsky.social River Farm Foundation Early Career Teaching and Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, Oxford. Comparative Belgian and British history of the FWW (and beyond). She/her. History, history, it is a mystery. https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/chloe-pieters
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Michael Craske مايكل كراسك @mjcraske.bsky.social More moustache than man. Former flâneur in the Middle East. #ActuallyAutistic Now a Senior Lecturer in English at QMUL https://www.qmul.ac.uk/arts/people/academic-and-research-staff/english/craskem.html
One of 'those' followers of walterpater.com
Philip R. Conway @prconway.bsky.social
Paul Poast @profpaulpoast.bsky.social International Relations and Foreign Policy. UChicago Prof. Chicago Council Fellow. WPReview Columnist. Primarily on LinkedIN.
https://www.paulpoast.com/
Nick Kapur @nickkapur.bsky.social Historian of Japan and East Asia. I only post extremely interesting things.
Author of "Japan at the Crossroads," out now from Harvard University Press.
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674984424
Mickey Djuric @mickeydjuric.bsky.social Politics + policy reporter at POLITICO 🇨🇦
📍 Ottawa
📧 mdjuric@politico.com
Dara Massicot @massdara.bsky.social Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Russia and Eurasia Program. I cover military issues in Russia and Eurasia.
Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social Prof Operational Research , @UCL_CORU, passionate about health care, women in STEMs, defending liberal democracy (!). Member of @independentsage, posts personal. https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/
Hein Goemans @heingoemans.bsky.social Galactic Effectuator (obvious Jack Vance aficionado); Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester. Interests: war and war termination, territorial disputes, why do leaders and why do individuals fight?
Alex Levine @alexmaxlevine.bsky.social PhD candidate researching 20th-century European internationalisms at UCLA
https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
Berta Lillo @bertalg.bsky.social Investigadora predoctoral en la Universidad de Alicante/ PhD candidate at University of Alicante
Primera Guerra Mundial/ Género/ Neutralidad/ Caricaturas/ Monarquía
World War I/ Gender/ Neutrality/ Satirical cartoons/ Monarchy
Italy and Spain
Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
Writer, editor, publisher, professor. Some people call me a bad feminist and by some people I mean me.
David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. The BBC: A People's History, Noise: A Human History, Radio 4.
Writer-in-residence 2026, Gladstone’s Library
Rep: United Agents
https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Alex Dyzenhaus @dyzenhaus.bsky.social Incoming Lecturer at St Andrews in the School of International Relations. PhD from Cornell. Studies land reform, agriculture, colonialism and elections in South Africa and Kenya.
www.dyzenhaus.com
War, Media and Society @wms-unikent.bsky.social Centre for the History of War, Media and Society @ University of Kent
https://blogs.kent.ac.uk/munitions-of-the-mind/
Nicola Camilleri @camilleriana.bsky.social historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social political theologian at the ministry for the future (anglican - classical social democrat)
interests: classics, history, philosophy, conflict + IR, economics/economic history, foreign policy, climate change, E. Asia
Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app She/her.🌈AP. Earnestposter. Family Preservation. Abolition. Reproductive Justice. Plants. I like to make things.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social I'm going on tour in 2026.
Listen to my show 'No Room' on BBC Radio 4 if you like.
https://www.mickperrin.com/tours/michael-spicer-hope-alls-well/
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Emily Hoge @emilyehoge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Dr Claire Yorke @claireyorke.bsky.social Author and academic | Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Canberra | Empathy, Emotions, Strategy, Security, Politics, Diplomacy, Asia-Pacific | 🇬🇧in 🇦🇺| https://claireyorke.me/
Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social #Anonymous: Actions Not Nouns. All that exists is interaction. #BindingChaos #3E https://yacnews.com/
Julia Irwin @juliairwin.bsky.social Historian of US foreign aid, disasters, and international humanitarianism. Author of *Making the World Safe* (OUP ’13) and *Catastrophic Diplomacy* (UNC ’24). Co-editor of *InterConnections: The Global 20th Century* (UNC) and *Journal of Disaster Studies*.
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social President & Chief Correspondent, Feature Story News (www.featurestory.com)
All links: http://linktr.ee/SimonMarksFSN
Podcast: 📻: plinkhq.com/i/1111788303
American Week on LBC: https://shorturl.at/Iw9Nn
The iPaper: https://inews.co.uk/author/simon-marks
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching weather, climate & clothing, also liberation graphics | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
Patrick Porter @patporter76.bsky.social Prof, Int Security, @unibirmingham. Contributing ed, @TheCriticMag. @RUSI_org. @CatoFP. @RANDEurope. The Case for Realism, Stanford UP. Book on Churchill w/Polity, on the way. 🇦🇺🇬🇧
Louis Fishman لوي فيشمان לואי פישמן @istanbultelaviv.bsky.social Associate Prof Brooklyn College; Jews and Palestinians in the late Ottoman era: Turkish, Israeli/Palestinian affairs; working on a book focusing on a post-Oct 7 historical narrative of Palestine/Israel. Haaretz and more; Website: https://louisfishman.com/