Dr Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social Historian and Author, St Andrews (she). Team Leibniz.
Modern Germany, Identity Studies, Food History.
Publications: https://claudiakreklau.wordpress.com/publications/
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social Architectural historian, lecturer, author, specialising in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, esp 20s/30s; expert on women & architecture 1890s to the present. New book out now: https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/palace-of-the-ether
Dr Corinne Painter @corinnepainter.bsky.social Associate Prof Intercultural Studies @ Uni of Leeds @lcsleeds.bsky.social
FHEA. FRHistS
Research: Women's Life Writing, Revolution, Antifascism, German Jewish women. Tweets my own. She/Her
Philippa Grand @philippagrand.bsky.social Head of Publishing @lsepress.bsky.social. Non profit open access publishing for the social sciences. Find out more about publishing with us at https://press.lse.ac.uk.
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Lucienne Boyce @luciennewrite.bsky.social I write historical fiction (To The Fair Land, The Dan Foster Mysteries) and non-fiction (The Bristol Suffragettes). I blog about women's history, the eighteenth century, women's suffrage, books and writing etc. https://lucienneboyce.com/
Irene Bittles @irenebittles.bsky.social Librarian, (very) amateur photographer
National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social An organisation for everyone interested in the acquisition, management and development of library resources.
https:/nag.org.uk
@librarybookhog.bsky.social @librarybookhog.bsky.social My library card is exhausted📚
ESL tutor, poet, artist, too-frequent library-goer
https://substack.com/@librarybookhog?r=38x04r&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile- J Julia Eichenberg @jeichenberg.bsky.social Historian of War and Peace and other things. Currently: Cooperation in Exile "The London Moment": https://exilegov.hypotheses.org/ and Post-War Periods: https://conflicts-meanings-transitions.de/
Vicky Iglikowski-Broad @vickyig.bsky.social Proud history nerd
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/
Katie Broomfield @katiebroomfield.bsky.social PhD candidate at Royal Holloway researching the opening of the legal profession to women in England and Wales.
HOWL @howl2025.bsky.social HOWL aims to create a welcoming online home for all oral, written and photographic memories of the Women's Liberation Movement 1969-1990s.
We invite all older feminists to contribute!
Visit our website to find out more >> https://howl-uk.org/about <<
Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social History, IR, Oxford, Brighton. 🇮🇪 🌈 Mum of two. First Gen academic. Arsenal Women. She/her. Author of award-winning Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men (Princeton, 2025)
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691266442/erased
LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social The world's largest dedicated social sciences blogging platform hosted by The London School of Economics and Political Science.
Explore our website 🖥 https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/
Subscribe to our newsletter 📬 http://eepurl.com/iwXSu-/
Joanne Genealogy @joannegenealogy.bsky.social MSc Genealogy, Professional Genealogist, Business Mentor. Staffordshire. PhD Researcher: 19c Women in the Temperance Movement. @temperancehistory.bsky.social
Gender Equalities At Work @genderwork50.bsky.social We are an interdisciplinary collaboration between researchers at the Universities of Edinburgh, UCL & UWE Bristol, looking at 50 years of work-related gender equality legislation in the UK
Beatriz Hannud @beatrizhannud.bsky.social Law at LSE — Political Science & Political Economy.
Alice Park @alicecpark.bsky.social Publisher @LSE Press. We publish open access books and journals in the social sciences.
Freya Marshall Payne @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | she/her
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social Tax, redistribution, welfare states, digitalisation, cultural studies. Prof of Culture & Economy, UAL. PI Redistributive Imaginaries https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/
Dep ed @newformations.bsky.social
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/114-rebecca-bramall
Isobel Cook @isobelcook.bsky.social Researching nuclear-themed British poetry. PhD-in-progress. Theatre and ballet fan. Based in Sheffield. Travels by train. She/her.
Reading Museum @readingmuseum.bsky.social Posts from Reading Museum. We share stories from the history of the town of Reading, its people, its wildlife, and our collections.
www.readingmuseum.org.uk
Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde, researching Irish women and interwar anti-communism. Monograph, Revolutionary Connections (OUP, 2026)
RCN History of Nursing Forum @rcnhistory.bsky.social #HistNursing for and by #Nursing in the UK
Find out more: https://www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved/Forums/History-of-Nursing-Forum
Vanessa Braganza @vanessabraganza.bsky.social 'The real Robert Langdon' | writer ✒️ | historical detective🔍 | future civil rights lawyer ⚖️ | 📖 THE SECRET-SEEKERS: A BOOK DETECTIVE'S QUEST out from HarperOne January 2027 | PhD @harvard, JD @columbialaw
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social The ancient world in the modern, in so many ways. Cultural historian and creative producer FRHistS: https://www.debbiechallis.com.
Dr Naomi Paxton @naomipaxton.bsky.social Freelance historian of the Actresses' Franchise League and suffrage theatre and entertainments... does books, talks, walks, radio, games, exhibitions, and workshops.
Also alter ego of award-winning comedy, cabaret & magic act Ada Campe
naomipaxton.co.uk
Mair Rigby @mairsrambles.bsky.social Tea drinker, nature lover, big reader. Enjoys walking, cooking, music, art. Works in HE in Wales. Vol sector background. Interested in engagement, research, reflective practice & wellbeing. Views my own! 🏴 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/mairerigby
Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. No access to DMs.
PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
The Welfare, Citizenship, and Intersectional Feminism Project @wcifproject.bsky.social The WCIF history project foregrounds intersectional feminist responses to welfare disparities that impact Black & South Asian women. University of Bristol. Supported by The Leverhulme Trust.
Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
Jacqui Baker @jacquibhistory.bsky.social Historian who works in an archive. Interested in researching gender, sexuality and feminism 📚🐶💖🪴📻
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
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Emma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social Journalist-turned-historian of 20th-century political activism. I write/rant about political women, liberation movements, feminisms, borders; Tomorrow Never Knows; she/her; London/Malmö.
http://www.emmalundin.co.uk
https://www.tomorrowneverknowspod.com
Laura Helton @lehelton.bsky.social Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024).
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi
Simon Trafford @simonjptrafford.bsky.social Early medievalist at IHR, Univ. of London, with a current research focus on water and human immersions. Also ethnicity, identity, migration and modern medievalisms. Regrettably likely to propose a lovely long walk given half a chance.
Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social Head of #Archives & #Records Mgt and Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing
History, Heritage #DigitalArchives #WomensHistory
Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
natalicinelli.bsky.social @natalicinelli.bsky.social PhD in International Relations | King's College London + Universidade de São Paulo
CEDAW | Women's Rights | History of Feminisms
Dr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social Co-editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Katherine Ingram @kating03.bsky.social PhD in History from QUB | Researching conflict and cooperation in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 | Studying suffrage militancy, suffragists’ relations with political parties, and feminists’ responses to war
Suzanne Paul @suzpaul.bsky.social Keeper of rare books and early MSS at the UL Cambridge | Fellow of St Edmund’s College, Cambridge
Jewish Historical Society of England @jewishhistorical.bsky.social Founded in 1893, the JHSE is the oldest learned society of its kind in Europe. Today, we support a vibrant, global community of people interested in the rich history of Jewish life throughout the English-speaking world.
Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
regina mühlhäuser @remueh.bsky.social | gender, sexuality/ies, rape and other forms of sexual violence in war & conflict
| researcher https://www.his-online.de/en/staff/person-details/person/regina-muehlhaeuser/
| co-founder https://warandgender.net
| author of "Sex and the Nazi Soldier"
Gemma @historygem.bsky.social First year PhD at Hertfordshire. Still very into shame and divorce in c19th but now also early c20th.
Sarah Wise @misssarahwise.bsky.social Historian, researcher, author, tutor,
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
misssarahwise.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/misssarahwise
Latest book: The Undesirables
https://www.stanfords.co.uk/the-undesirables-the-law-that-locked-away-a-generation
Janet Watson @janetskwatson.bsky.social History professor at UConn, mother, knitter, long COVID and cardiac arrest survivor. Author, Fighting Different Wars. Be kind, stand strong, and aim for democracy. Cats. Personal account.
Elizabeth Crawford @womanssphere.bsky.social Historian. Researcher and writer. In the past sold books by and about women. European. FRHistS. OBE.
Website womanandhersphere.com
New book - https://tinyurl.com/5cdn7dw9 (Bloomsbury) or https://amzn.eu/d/0j4JlLyR (Amazon)
Family and Community Historical Research Society @fachrs.bsky.social Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration. Our annual project for 2026 is on nursing, so expect a few posts supporting the research.
@carriegrimm.bsky.social @carriegrimm.bsky.social 
Dunblane Museum @dunblanemuseum.bsky.social Sharing the story of Dunblane, its magnificent medieval Cathedral, the 1715 Battle of Sheriffmuir, and people through the centuries who've lived, worked or been educated in Dunblane
Scottish Charity No. SC020895
https://dunblanemuseum.org.uk/
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
Kayleigh @thelttlstlbrrn.bsky.social Sweet Briar 2020 | Librarian | Lover of God | Married to @natemosersports.bsky.social | Knitter | Amateur Folklorist | Count it all joy she/her
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
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Winthrop Tuesday @winthroptuesday.bsky.social Proud Lancastrian now exiled in North Wales. "Be soon," I said, "Be soooooon."
Janet Nichols Lynch @janetnicholslynch.bsky.social Author 📙, activist ✌️, pianist 🎹, cyclist 🚴🏻♀️, nature lover🌲, reader 📚, cat lady 🐈⬛, Gram. I want my country back.
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
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
Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social Reader in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
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
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Gabby @gabliotecaria.northsky.social 🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. B with the T. Proud trade union organiser & rep. Former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Stéise @booksparrow.bsky.social Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme. Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Expect Typos
Wendy Russell @archiveswendy.bsky.social Lead Archivist (Screencraft) at British Film Institute
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk
@womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Lou Le Joly @loulejoly.bsky.social 💻 Collections de presse et valorisation à @labnf.bsky.social
🔎 Artistes britanniques et suffragisme
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Lisbet Sherlock @lisbet.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Researcher. Current projects: Tolson sister #suffragettes and history of @FarmWoodoaks. Trustee at British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social and Chair at Dorset Wildlife Trust @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Perth Women on Wikipedia @perthwomenwiki.bsky.social Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
Posts by Gill
Perth, Scotland
Anabel Marsh @glasgowgallivanter.bsky.social Retired librarian, traveller, and women's history enthusiast. Blogs at glasgowgallivanter.com She/her.
Dr Anke Timmermann @elixirlibri.bsky.social Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Lucy Rutherford @lucyr.bsky.social Archivist at Hertford College, Oxford; general interest in heritage stories & art history; spare time spent attempting to learn Italian
Andrew Janes @cartivist.bsky.social archives | maps | stammering | cake | he/him
Liz @willsmanonename.bsky.social Tracing my #FamilyHistory in 🏴 & 🏴 Passionate about #OnePlaceStudies, #LocalHistory & cats. Practicing my photography skills.
Usually only follow history accounts!
My websites & socials 👉🏻 https://linktr.ee/WillsmanOneNa
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
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Claire Cunnington @drcisme.bsky.social By day a researcher fighting for a better life for the traumatised, by night asleep. Currently writing about a Victorian VIP #CSE scandal. Co-convenor of the BSA Global Histories and Sociology Study Group. she/her
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
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.
Waltham Forest Archives @lbwfarchives.bsky.social Waltham Forest Archives and Local Studies Library, Chingford Assembly Hall, Station Road, London E4 7EN. Collections documenting history of the London Borough of Waltham Forest. Research visits by prior appointment. Email wfa.enquiries@walthamforest.gov.uk
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social Historian of class, labor, and gender in 19th century Britain, Ireland, and Empire. First-gen, non-traditional, DEI advocate. Also, old-school D&D nerd. 🏳️🌈
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell @hottycouture.bsky.social Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. MacDowell '26. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social