Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Allison L. Bennett @taureanhistorian.bsky.social •PhD Candidate in History researching British and Anzac sexual encounters in First World War Macedonia and the Middle East.
•PhD Rep, co-membership secretary @fwwsoc.bsky.social
📍 Newfoundland and Labrador
HMS Tern Living Museum @hmstern61.bsky.social We are creating a Living Museum at HMS Tern in Orkney. The team of volunteers and paid staff are recreating the look, smell and feel of a training airfield in World War II on Orkney. The site is open to the public, see our website for opening times.
Vera @veranmiller.bsky.social Genealogy, blogger (https://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com/), writer (Genealogy at a Glance: Ukrainian Genealogy Research & Genealogy at a Glance: Russian Genealogy Research), genealogy research speaker, https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/2-vera-miller
Little Owl Genealogy @littleowlgenealogy.bsky.social Little Owl Genealogy is owned by Megan I. Culbert. I help people connect with the past by illuminating the stories of their ancestors through genealogical research. Visit littleowlgenealogy.com for more information.
Geneablocks @geneablocks.com Helping family historians break through brick walls 🧱🌳 Free research guides, tools & a bit of genealogy geekery. 36 years chasing ancestors across Britain, Europe & Acadia. We're what happens when a web app meets a research library desk 📚geneablocks.com
queerancestors @se14photo.bsky.social Using this space to record some queer social history through genealogy
Also Amateur photos. Mainly using Polaroid or Fujifilm Zoomdate 1300
LGBTQ+
Genealogy
Londoner. Irish.
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
EcoMuseum of Scottish Mining Landscapes @mininglandscapes.bsky.social Posts from Scotland’s first industrial eco-museum commemorating and recording mining landscapes through a series of community created cycling and walking routes.
Oxfordshire History Centre @oxhistcentre.bsky.social We are part of Oxfordshire County Council - we're the archive and local studies for the county, including photographic collections
Website - http://www.oxfordshire.gov.uk/oxfordshirehistory
Catalogue - https://heritagesearch.oxfordshire.gov.uk/
UofGlasgow Archives & Special Collections @uofglasgowasc.bsky.social Collecting since 1451, Archives and Special Collections @UofGlasgow, part of @UofGLibrary. Always inspiring people with our collections. #UofGASC
Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social Founded in 1610, Lambeth Palace Library is the historic library and record office of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the national library and archive of the Church of England.
https://linktr.ee/lambethpalacelibrary
Hull History Centre @hullhistorycentre.bsky.social 
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
Senate House Library @senatehouselib.bsky.social One of the UK's largest academic libraries for arts, humanities & social sciences. 2 million books, 50 special collections & 1,800 archives 📚
https://linktr.ee/senatehouselibrary
UCL Special Collections @uclspeccoll.bsky.social UCL Special Collections is open to everyone. Our collections of rare, unique and historic archives & books cover themes including history of UCL, education, arts and sciences.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/special-collections
University of Surrey Archives and Special Collections @archives-unisurrey.bsky.social We hold the University archive, collections related to the artist E H Shepard, the collections of the National Resource Centre for Dance and other Special Collections.
The Devil's Porridge Museum @devilsporridge.bsky.social We tell the incredible WW1 story of HM Factory Gretna, the greatest munitions factory on Earth. Eastriggs and Gretna Heritage Group SCIO.
SCN SC031616
Ulster Folk Museum @ulsterfolkmuseum.org Celebrating everyday skills, stories & traditions passed down through generations in Ulster.
🧵 Putting the past in dialogue with the present — to shape the future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulsterfolkmuseum.org
Chetham's Library @chethamslibrary.bsky.social Founded in 1653, we are the oldest public library in the English speaking world. This Bluesky account is for connecting with researchers and institutions.
Suffolk Archives @suffolkarchives.bsky.social The Hold in Ipswich is where Suffolk’s past meets your present. Preserving stories from everyday lives to historic moments, 900+ years of history at your fingertips, discover your story. A Suffolk County Council service. https://linktr.ee/suffolkarchives
London Canal Museum @canalmuseum.bsky.social One of the most-visited waterways museums in the UK, located in central London. On two floors we tell the story of London's canals, their people, arts and crafts, boats, horses and engineering. We offer a programme of regular boat trips from the museum.
Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.virtualtreasury.ie
An All-Island & International Legacy from Decade of Centenaries
Core partners: National Archives Ireland, The National Archives UK, Public Record Office Northern Ireland, Irish Manuscripts Commission, Library Trinity College Dublin
Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social Beautiful library of the early Enlightenment in central Dublin. Opened in 1707; still welcoming visitors, tourists and scholars.
Registered Charity RCN 20000752
The Signet Library @signetlibrary.bsky.social The Signet Library in Edinburgh, the home of the WS Society, is a world class centre of knowledge and learning in law and the history and culture of Scotland.
Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre @lrfheritage.bsky.social The Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre explores the importance & development of maritime safety and classification.
The Folklore Library & Archive @folklorelibrary.bsky.social Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Australian National Maritime Museum @seamuseum.bsky.social Australia's National Maritime Museum located on Gadigal Country, Sydney 🐳 We share stories of the sea and waterways.
Open 10am - 4pm | FREE ENTRY
Nova Scotia Museum @novascotiamuseum.bsky.social Telling Nova Scotia’s extraordinary stories.
Toronto Archives @torontoarchives.cityof.toronto.ca We maintain & make accessible records of enduring value that give evidence of decisions, policies & activities of the City of Toronto.
www.toronto.ca/archives
Boston Archives and Records @archives.boston.gov Official Bluesky account of the City of Boston Archives. We manage, preserve, and provide access to the municipal government records of Boston.
boston.gov/departments/archives-and-records-management
Public Record Office Victoria @vicarchives.bsky.social Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) is the #archive of the State Government of Victoria, Australia. We hold records from the mid-1830s to today. Visit our website at prov.vic.gov.au
Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social Travel back in time and explore the South’s working past in the heart of the South Downs National Park.
St Davids Cathedral Library / Llyfrgell y Gadeirlan Tyddewi @stdavidscathlib.bsky.social St Davids Cathedral Library. Llyfrgell Y Gadeirlan Tyddewi. Only Welsh Cathedral Library in situ. Beautiful books C16 to C21, in beautiful building.
@westhighlandmuseum.bsky.social @westhighlandmuseum.bsky.social 
Library and Archives Canada @library-archives.canada.ca Library and Archives Canada preserves your documentary heritage.
Terms and conditions: https://www.canada.ca/en/library-archives/terms-conditions.html
En français : @bibliotheque-archives.canada.ca
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social A membership charity founded in 1780 that supports the study and enjoyment of Scotland’s past through publications, lectures, @scarf-scot.bsky.social, @digitscotland.bsky.social, @churchheritage.bsky.social and more | Visit https://www.socantscot.org/
Haverfordwest Heritage | Treftadaeth Hwlffordd @haverfordwestheritage.org.uk Non-profit : building preservation and community regeneration. Sympathetically seeking to bring Haverfordwest's neglected heritage buildings back into community use.
Leadhills Miners' Library @lhminerslibrary.bsky.social Founded 23 Nov, 1741: the oldest subscription library in the British Isles.
Perched high in the Southern Uplands of Scotland 📚🏴⛰️⛏️
#librarywithaltitude
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Cormac Keenan @cormac-keenan.bsky.social PhD student at DCU researching the post-conflict lives of the dependants of the Irish Revolution
Stephanie Pitcher Whittier @gatheredhistories.bsky.social Genealogist, writer & keeper of stories, old records, forgotten houses & kitchen-table memories — plus cats and coffee. Neurospicy, super liberal, typical GenX humor. Building Gathered Histories. Was cornandcotton in another life. #genealogy #localhistory
Michael Durrant @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social Lecturer in Book History at IES, Uni of London. Author of The Dreadful Name of Henry Hills (MUP 2026). Co-editor of upcoming Routledge Companion to Book Studies.
Kate Bagnall @baibi.bsky.social Currently: Exhausted by long COVID. Usually: Histories of migration, citizenship, family and the law. Australia, New Zealand and beyond. Senior Lecturer in Humanities at UTAS.
Always: Missing south China and wishing my Cantonese was better.
Aleks Koutny @koutny.bsky.social art historian | author | tutor at cambridge uni | VISUAL CULTURES OF DEATH IN CENTRAL EUROPE (out now) | https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/aleks-koutny/
Jamie Kelly @sisyphussmile.bsky.social Aberdonian in Glasgow | Public Sector Bureaucrat | Historian of 18th century Scotland | PhD on SSPCK
Recently dusted off the keyboard ✍🏻⌨️
Zotero fangirl.
`` dp by @electricgraayhem.bsky.social (March 2026 ❤️)
@drkatesmedley.bsky.social @drkatesmedley.bsky.social 
@theresaorourke.bsky.social @theresaorourke.bsky.social Family historian - focus on Ireland and the United States. Active with Moms Demand Action, Indivisible and League of Women Voters.
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
Darby Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. Views etc, my own.
Joe Litobarski @joelitobarski.bsky.social Historian of Digital Technology | PhD candidate in the history of public cybernetics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS), Maastricht University
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 Maeve O'Dwyer @drmaeve.bsky.social Views my own. Academic developer, C18 art historian, SoTL, part-time lecturer & facilitator entrepreneurship & leadership, co-founder @thirdspaceHE SFHEA.
Susie Steinbach @susielaurie.bsky.social Jewish, Minnesotan (via the Bronx), widow, historian (c19 Britain). Understanding the Victorians 3e now out!!
https://www.routledge.com/Understanding-the-Victorians-Politics-Culture-and-Society-in-Nineteenth-Century/Steinbach/p/book/9780367421021 
Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
Fi Bowler @fibowler.bsky.social Cold War Historian | Research Associate at the University of Oxford | views and cat pictures my own
Rehnuma Sazzad @rsazzad.bsky.social Research & Associate Fellow (IES & ICwS), External Lecturer (University of Regensburg), AE & RE, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, BAMS & SCS, Committee Member: https://ies.sas.ac.uk/people/dr-rehnuma-sazzad
Dr. Marianne C.E. Gillion @mcegillion.bsky.social • Research Coordinator at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Musicologist & book historian
• MSCA Alumna
• Opinions mine
• She/her
Jeannine Baker @nenieb.bsky.social Australian academic (media production & journalism), historian of gendered labour & technology in media industries, factual content producer. Lover of radio & GLAM. She/her. Dharawal country, Wollongong & Awabakal country, Newcastle, Australia.
Henry Bartholomew @henrybartholomew.bsky.social Teacher, scholar, editor; PhD, FHEA; Academic Skills Lecturer at GBS. Interested in the Gothic, the weird, ghost stories, objects, Speculative Realism, Algernon Blackwood 🌲 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Henry-Bartholomew
Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
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
Amerjit Basi @amerjitbasi.bsky.social Into books, politics, the arts, SF, urban space. Civil servant, DfE; former Head of Policy,University of Sheffield.Personal views expressed. Same name on Twitter.
Ed Selkirk Ford @edselkirkford.bsky.social Historian of democracy and empire | University of Exeter & University of Southern Denmark | Finishing a PhD on the history of parliaments in the British Empire
Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Michelle Gwynn @michgreig.bsky.social Falling off bikes, fighting men in swimming pools, history and rampant imposer syndrome. SGSSS funded PhD at UoGlasgow. Interested in transformations within 20C Britain. Awful spelling all my own. Constantly distracted.
John Ayshford @johnayshford.bsky.social History PhD student at the University of Manchester researching John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, and republican political thought.
The Simons of Manchester (2024)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176387/
Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
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/
Alison Pedley (Dr when appropriate ) @aliped.bsky.social Historian: Victorian social history, 19C female criminal insanity and asylums & own family history. Hon Research Fellow Roehampton Uni. Exiled Wirralite/plastic-scouse LFC Mostly happily married!
Gwent Archives @gwentarchives.bsky.social The official county archive for the former counties of Gwent and Monmouthshire. Open Tues-Thurs 09:30 - 16:30. What will you discover?
www.gwentarchives.gov.uk
Dr Amy King @amycking.bsky.social Historian. Into the history and memory of Italy’s far right - how it’s remembered, how it remembers. Antifascist. University of Bristol. She/her.
Lisa | Regency Relatives @regencyrelatives.bsky.social Hello, I'm Lisa. Family historian with a love of the Regency era, strong tea, and research rabbit holes. Honest about the chaos of genealogy. Founder of Regency Relatives: regencyrelatives.co.uk
Dr Gavin Hughes FRHistS FRGS @drgavinhughes.bsky.social Short misadventurer in archaeology, mischievous military historian, author, broadcaster, relentless miniature painter & collector. Follows cricket but doesn't understand it. Looks a little like Asterix 🙂 Rep @Pastpreservers; TCD, SDUC, NI, Wales, Co. Down!
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
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
#AncestryHour @ancestryhour.bsky.social #AncestryHour the #No1 community hashtag online for sharing #familyhistory tips, stories and #genealogy gems.
Cyndi's List @cyndislist.bsky.social CyndisList.com, a FREE categorized & cross-referenced index to genealogical resources on the Internet
Pen and Sword Books @penandswordbooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of military, aviation, maritime, family history, transport, social & local history, true crime & more!
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
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance.
Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh
Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions
agent: @WatsonLittle
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
@gloucestershirefhs.bsky.social @gloucestershirefhs.bsky.social 
Sophie 🌳🏰 @sophie-searches.bsky.social 🍃 Genealogist, Family Historian, Probate Researcher // 15th century WOTR historian 👑 // graduate @yorkmedieval.bsky.social
X/Insta : @sophie_searches
Ed Hollox @edhollox.bsky.social Professor of Genetics at U of Leicester. Genome structural variation.
"Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done." Views my own.
Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory @memoryplace.bsky.social Anchored in philosophy @stir.ac.uk
Researching place & memory
across cognitive sciences, social sciences & the arts
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social & @reaveyp.bsky.social
Funded by @leverhulme.ac.uk
placememory.net
Alberte H. Jepsen @alberte-jepsen.bsky.social Forensic Genetics Scientist 🧬 | PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰
Free UK Genealogy (FreeBMD • FreeREG • FreeCEN) @freeukgenealogy.org.uk Free UK Genealogy is a charity providing free access to UK historical genealogy records for family historians worldwide.
Publishers of FreeBMD, FreeREG and FreeCEN.
Volunteer-powered | Open access | Genealogy for everyone.
Dr Justine Gallagher @justinegallagher.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Northumbria University, teaches on BA(Hons) Childhood and Early Years Studies. Research themes of motherhood, poverty, genealogy and family history.
Alasdair Macdonald @afmac.bsky.social Genealogist. SIGS-Strathclyde. Scottish representative for Family Tree DNA. R1b-L165 & BY13652. Co-owner HMFC. Hill running. Tweets my own 🏴
Centre for Lifelong Learning @strathcll.bsky.social We offer an impressive range of learning opportunities for adults of all ages.
South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust @sghetorg.bsky.social South Glasgow Heritage & Environment Trust (SGHET) https://linktr.ee/sghet - celebrating our histories and places for a #SustainableSouthside #Glasgow #Heritage
DMs don't reach us but our email is here https://sghet.com/contact/
Maarten Larmuseau @maartenlarmuseau.bsky.social Professor in Genetic Genealogy @KU_Leuven
Biologist & geneticist inspired by genealogy, history, museums & art
Chris Paton @chrismpaton.bsky.social Genealogist/sloinntear, writer, tutor, happy bunny, Ayrshire based. Have written a good few books. Laphroaig every time. Cuimhnich air na daoine o'n d'thàinig sibh...!
Royal Berkshire Archives @berksarchives.bsky.social The Royal Berkshire Archives holds the archives of the Royal County of Berkshire. We look after nearly nine hundred years of the County's history.
Website: royalberkshirearchives.org.uk
@markstevens23.bsky.social @markstevens23.bsky.social Royal Berkshire Archives, Friends of the Nations’ Libraries. Wrote a book about Broadmoor. Care for Reading FC to detriment of personal wellbeing
African American Genealogical Society of Northern California @aagsnc0396.bsky.social Founded in March 1996, AAGSNC exists to preserve and promote the study of records of a genealogical and historical nature relating to African American ancestry. 
North Carolina Genealogical Society @ncgs1974.bsky.social 
Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois @jgsofillinois.bsky.social The Jewish Genealogical Society of Illinois (JGSI) is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization established in 1981 and now with over 300 members. JGSI is a member of IAJGS, the International Association of Jewish Genealogical Societies.