British Shakespeare Association @bsashakespeare.bsky.social Professional association for teachers, researchers, practitioners and writers interested in Shakespeare. CfP part 1 for BSA Conference 2027, 'Sounding Shakespeare: Voice, Music, Sound, Silence' open until 30 September!
https://linktr.ee/BSAShakespeare
Hes Bradley @hesbradley.bsky.social lecturer in english and creative writing at @uniofbuckingham.bsky.social
writer, community gardener,
into vampires and the moon atm
they/them
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/
Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social Research Associate in Natural History Humanities at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, Cambridge (https://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/staff/dr-richard-fallon). Author of "Contesting Earth's History", "Reimagining Dinosaurs", and more. Also, graptolites.
Katharine Craik @kcraik1.bsky.social Prof of Shakespeare and early modern lit, Research Director and Think Human Festival Director at Oxford Brookes. ‘Lifelike Shakespeare’ coming soon from OUP🏴
Iman Sheeha (she/her) @drsheeha.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Shakespeare Institute @shakesinstitute.bsky.social The University of Birmingham's dedicated Shakespeare research centre in Stratford-upon-Avon
Simply the best place in the world to study Shakespeare.
https://t.co/65CgPIMCOm
Robert Shaughnessy @robshaughnessy.bsky.social Shakespeare, performance, then and now. Music, media now and then.
Jennifer R. Duncan @jennifer-duncan.bsky.social Librarian in Utah
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
Lucy Holehouse @lucyholehouse.bsky.social Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies at Royal Holloway, University of London | researching the materials of Nationalism in C17th civic performance | she/her
Erin Weinberg @bardolator.bsky.social English prof in the prairies, proud union member
Shakespeare | Jane Austen | Agatha Christie | Food | Cults & Coercive Control | Teaching & Learning
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Nathaniel Tapley @thatnatt.bsky.social Terrible news, chums. Head writer on Netflix's Bad Dinosaurs. Jokemonger for shows you hate. Maker of historical podcasts. Chief Sparkle Enthusiast at Sparklegoose!
Helen King @helenking.bsky.social Sort of retired (not), Professor Emerita, The Open University. Classics, history of medicine/the body/gynaecology. Writer, blogger, C of E lay preacher, chair of Together on General Synod (formerly Gender & Sexuality Group). She/her. Likes flowers.
Thony Christie @rmathematicus.bsky.social Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.
Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE FIREARM REVOLUTION out now. Previous books include THE BEAUTY AND THE TERROR; ROADS TO ROME.
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Nigel Warburton @nigelwarburton.bsky.social Philosopher, writer, podcaster. Co-founder of the Philosophy Bites podcast. Author of A Little History of Philosophy and many other books. Weekly column Everyday Philosophy in The New World magazine. Consultant editor Aeon.co and Five Books.
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Whores of Yore @whoresofyore.bsky.social Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social Historian of health and disability c1600-1850 at Cardiff University. Dysgwr Cymraeg. Also keen on our garden, cat, and chickens.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/cocke
Surgeons' Hall Museum @surgeonshall.bsky.social Home to the largest & most historic collection of surgical pathology in the world.
Open 10am-5pm, 7 days a week.
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
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
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/
Andrew Kenrick @andrewkenrick.bsky.social Former editor of White Dwarf, current editor of @hinterlandnf.bsky.social. Life writing PhD from UEA. Mostly writing about Romans. REX JUBA, out 2026 from Penguin.
https://linktr.ee/andrewkenrick
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Engagement). University of Bath. #LFC, #RedSox, #Reds, #AthleticClub, #BostonCeltics. Starting a book on the First Anglo-Asante War (1823-31).
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social Historian | Made in 🇫🇷 Lives in 🇬🇧 Writes about 🇺🇲 | Envtal Justice, Beaches, Cities, Plastics | 📘 SAND RUSH: THE REVIVAL OF THE BEACH IN 20TH-CENTURY LA 🏖️ | 🚲 +🚶🏻♂️ advocate | Here for work but also random stuff
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
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/
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Colchester Museums @colmuseums.bsky.social We're renowned for Romans, cuckoo about clocks and wild for animals! Custodians of Colchester Castle, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Natural History Museum.
Paul Webster 🌈 @webstermedieval.bsky.social Medieval historian (esp. kingship, religion, saints, King John & Thomas Becket). Mature students & lifelong learning. Carer. Occasional gardener. He/him. 🌈 Ace, Genderfluid
Richard Hammond @rjhammond215.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer. Vice-President and Founder Member of the Second World War Research Group: https://www.swwresearch.com/. Co-Editor of War in History journal: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/WIH
Jenn Scott @jennscott1485.bsky.social Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750.
https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
Iwan Rhys Morus @irmorus.bsky.social Professor of History. Historian of Science.
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Dr Sara Barker @sarakbarker.bsky.social Historian of early modern print, news, translation, pamphlets. Scotland/Yorkshire hybrid. Likes old printed things, France, rugby, embroidery. Always stops to talk to cats and dogs. Series editor MUP Studies in Early Modern European History. She/her.
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year.
https://kateteltscher.com/
Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social Award-nominated Historian & Author FRHistS
WW1/WW2/20thC Royalty
Runs @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
@15minutebook.club 🎧
www.istoriatravel.org ✈️
Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social
🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷
https://achurchill.substack.com
Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
COST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health @eurohealthhist.bsky.social #CA22159 National, International & Transnational Histories of Healthcare 1850-2000. Join https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159 #Skystorians #Heritage #European #History #HealthHist #MedHum #EuroHealthHist #COSTActions Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
Fernanda Gallo @fernandag.bsky.social Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Kate Wiles @katemond.bsky.social Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social Associate Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, University of Lincoln,UK. Author: Philip II of Spain & the Architecture of Empire @PSUPress
#architecture #art #materialculture #iberianworld #globalhistory #latinamerica #Goa
Own views 🌈 she/her
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).
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
merchantshallyork.org
Susan Major @suemajor.bsky.social Railway historian, living in York UK. https://susanmajorhistory.wordpress.com. Working class railway excursions mid-19c Britain, inc women's leisure mobility. Women railway workers WWII. FellowRHS. Local history for www.clementshallhistorygroup.org.uk
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Dr. Mary Ann Tedstone Glover @ancientmusic.bsky.social Composer
Ancient Roman Music specialist
Film/TV Consultant
'The Music of Ancient Rome' - "Extraordinary" - The Times
http://maryanntedstoneglover.bandcamp.com
Dr Dan O’Brien @drdan.bsky.social Historian of undertakers and funerals in Eighteenth Century England. Researching the trade and their goods. Visiting Research Fellow at CDAS, University of Bath.
Associate Fellow of Royal Historical Society
Christian Cooijmans @ccooijmans.bsky.social Viking Historian | Research Fellow @uio.no | Assoc. Researcher @livunihss.bsky.social | vikings in continental Europe | medieval(ism) | histor(iograph)y
https://hcommons.org/members/ccooijmans
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | AHRC funded PhD on board games & play c.1860-1939 | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Kate Holmes @katejholmes.bsky.social Open Access advocate; magpie-brained aerial academic; all about cultural studies/pop ents/circus/audiences/embodiment (she/her)
author: https://tinyurl.com/20sfemaerial
website: katejholmescom.wordpress.com
Stephen Fisher @seaspitfires.com Author, historian & archaeologist, Lindblad Expeditions guide, National Geographic expert. Has a soft spot for WW2 Coastal Forces, landing craft, LCT 7074 & D-Day. Servant to Flynn. Writes books for Penguin.
www.seaspitfires.com
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Digital Scholarship @ British Library @bldigischol.bsky.social Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators were at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
We're not age verified (!) so we can't see DMs.
Relayed from Mastodon by Skymoth
H.G.W. Davie @hgwdavie.bsky.social PhD University of East Anglia - writes about Soviet Logistics in SWW, General Military Transport & Logistics, Railways, Horse-drawn Vehicles
Visting Lecturer University Wolverhampton, MA SWW Eastern Europe and Holocaust
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Ham House @OOCDTP | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.
Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives
She/her
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/
Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
Dr Diane Ranyard @dianeranyard.bsky.social Historian researching marriage & divorce @ Northumbria Law School working on ESRC funded @divorcehistory.bsky.social. Interested in social, cultural, legal, gender, class & emotions history
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 ⛱
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Amy McElroy @amymcelroy.bsky.social Author of:
☆Educating the Tudors - Jan 2023.
☆Women's Lives in the Tudor Era - Feb 2024.
☆Mary Tudor, Queen of France - Feb 2025.
☆ Desiderius Erasmus - March 2026.
All published by Pen & Sword
Working on the next book!
HWA Crown Awards Judge
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Russell Merryman @merryarty.bsky.social Journalist, editor (ex-BBC/Al Jazeera), academic, PhD candidate, journalism trainer, media historian, future media geek, hardline realist, former gravedigger. Yorkshireman in exile, SWFC, WCCC & YCCC.
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
Terry-Lee Marttinen @tlmarttinen.bsky.social Nordic Colonialism, Indigenized Lutheranism & Eugenics. Interests: Lived Stories/ Race & Genetics/ Disability & Euthanasia. PhD (C) CMH Oxford Brookes U. http://CONFRONT-EUGENICS.ORG. Research Collaboration-CEMFOR Uppsala U. SSHRC Awardee
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).