Dr Tom Thorpe MCIPR @kensingtons.bsky.social Belfast Green Badge tour guide/conflict historian/spin dr/policy wonk - @drtomstours.bsky.social - Host The Western Front Assoc Mentioned in Dispatches podcast. - Rts≠support - Views own.
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
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
HCAatEdinburgh @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social Official account of the School of History, Classics and Archaeology
at the University of Edinburgh. Study with us! linktr.ee/hcaatedinburgh
Dr Andrew Higgins @ashiggins.bsky.social Director of Development at Imperial War Museums. Tolkien Scholar and author Live in Balham London 🏳️🌈
María Inés Tato @mariainestato.bsky.social CONICET Researcher at the Ravignani Institute. Historian of the two World Wars in Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas question.
Elisabeth Piller @elisabeth-piller.bsky.social Assistant Prof of Transatlantic and North American History @uni-freiburg.de; US food aid | blockades | postwar
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
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
Tammy Proctor @usuhistorienne.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Teacher. FRHistS.
Cycling historic routes
Peacebuilding
Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own
Beth Wyatt @wyattbeth.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. PhD researcher in First World War studies. Interests including film and TV, gender, emotions, country houses. Also interested in Korean history and culture.
Thomas P. Stephens @tpstephens.bsky.social PhD in British, Commonwealth, and Empire History from IU Bloomington, Assistant Editor of the Journal of American History, and Editor of The American Historian. Studies gender and military culture. Cat dad and nerd (he/him).
PeterFV @peterfv.bsky.social Working on battle planning by the BEF on the Western Front. Formerly a management consultant, test manager, technical writer and a Revolting Student (1968).
https://tinyurl.com/2532nczd
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
https://selenadaly.com
Tash Heap @tashheap.bsky.social Lecturer, ex-pilot, bone nerd, lover of history, archaeology, aviation and biological anthropology. Starting a PhD combing biological anthropology, aviation & safety. Part of @avcultures.bsky.social (Aviation Cultures Conference) too! aviationcultures.org
Jane Skelding @skelding.bsky.social PhD candidate focussing on language of marginalised histories in the 1921 census @LAHP_DTP CDA project @findmypast @IES_london
Kashia Amber Arnold, PhD @kashiaarnold.bsky.social Asst Director UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, & Democracy @ucsbblumcenter.bsky.social. Historian. Writing a book on US trade interdependence w/ Asia. I focus on US & World, Public Policy, History of Capitalism, Consumption, & Global Commodities
Mathis J Gronau @mjgronau.bsky.social Historian of European History, 19-20th Century, Migration History. My book "Deutsche Minderheiten in Frankreich und Großbritannien: Im Niemandsland der Identität 1914-1924" is OpenAccess and available here: https://tinyurl.com/GrNiemandsland
Alfredo Dallolio @alfredodallolio.bsky.social Amateur Historian. Focus on: WW1 Italy | WW2 North Africa & Mediterranean | Italian Colonialism & Fascism | Military Logistics. Enthusiasm for: Speculative Fiction | AS Roma
alfredodallolio.substack.com
Christoph Nuebel @christophnuebel.bsky.social Historiker und Zeitgenosse | #ZMSBw | Schreibt die Geschichte des #WW1 & Kalten Krieges. Aktuelles Projekt: #BMVgeschichte. | Liebt Rennradeln & Kekse. Privat.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Sofya Anisimova @sdanisimova.bsky.social Early career historian. Post-Doctoral Fellow at
University College Dublin. Working on First World War and Russian Civil War.
Men of Worth Project @menofworth.bsky.social Andy Wade, Historian. Author.
We research Keighley & Worth Valley people who served in wartime. We remember their service and try to ensure they’re not forgotten. Est. 2001, QAVS 2021.
www.menofworth.org.uk
Alt text: Embroidered badge, says ‘MEN OF WORTH'
Jur @jurdj.bsky.social History, books, games, music, friends. Stiefvlaming
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social Military & Animal Historian🗡️ 🇲🇲🐴
Author
Burma Star Memorial Fund Scholar
PhD candidate KCL
Rep: Watson Little Ltd
Freaking out in a Moonage Daydream…
Bobbie Johnson @bj13johnson1.bsky.social Military history enthusiast, esp FWW. And cat lover. Ex Naval and Military nurse as well as NHS and university lecturer. Volunteer in several military museums
Wayne McDonald @terriermcd.bsky.social Proud Yorkshireman, #Htafc fan, Fascinated by The Great War. Research projects gladly accepted #WW1 My old blog https://greatwarreflections.wordpress.com/
Roger Hildreth @rogerhildreth.bsky.social WW1, Cycling and Rugby. Vice President Birmingham Moseley Rugby Club. Member of the Great War Group.
Zero Hour Z Day 1st July 1916 @zero-hour-z-day.bsky.social Zero Hour Z Day 1st July 1916, detailed accounts of the British and German operations during The Battle of the Somme.
mightygwyn @mightygwyn.bsky.social @DrillHalls elsewhere
The Vosges and Alsace in occupation and wartime:
thebluelinefrontier.com
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A few snaps on www.mightygwyn.eu
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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social Battlefield Guide & Researcher | Western Front - The Great War | Daily Battlefield Tours & Tailored Personalised Pilgrimages. | We are all eternal students. | Not interested in political posts.
Bryn Hammond @brynleyh.bsky.social FRHistS. Historian of the First World War, la Grande Guerre, WW1, ‘the Great War’. Principal Curator à l'ancien asile but now à la retraite. Evertonian. Cricket lover. Proud father…more when I think of it.
Steve Smith @stevesmith1944.bsky.social Accredited battlefield guide, trainer & published author, works for Sophie's Great War Tours & Adaptable Travel co-owner of http://www.battlefieldguidetraining.com
Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social I’m interested in WW1, particularly the Battle of the Frontiers (22/08/1914) and am a member of the Great War Group and Western Front Association. Outside of military history I like cycling and rugby
Andrew Holmes @agh57.bsky.social First World War, history, a bit of photography and other random stuff!
Derek Robertson @redlichtie.bsky.social Reside in Arbroath
Iinterested in the Great War, history in general, good music and cats.
My main research project that of the experience of those who were awarded the 1914 & 1914/15 star for initially serving abroad with the Black Watch.
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Jim Smithson @jimsmithson.bsky.social Military historian. Great War Group Trustee. Written a couple of Great War books plus articles. Francophile, but also lived 30+ years in Germany so pretty European in outlook.
Dr Ross Mahoney @airpowerhistory.bsky.social Editor-in-Chief of 'From Balloons to Drones.' Specialist in Air Power History, Transport History, & Heritage. Brit in Brisbane, QLD. Posts ≠ endorsement.
https://drrossmahoney.substack.com/ & https://balloonstodrones.com/
Tom Isitt @tomisitt.bsky.social Author, historian, cyclist, hiker, occasional climber, idiot adventurer with unrealistic goals and expectations.
Andrew Jackson @accringtonpals.bsky.social
Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog @ssew1914-1918.bsky.social St. Studiecentrum Eerste Wereldoorlog | Bevordering kennis geschiedenis WO1 | Zie: www.ssew.nl |
TSL Publications - Great War in Africa Association @tslbooks.bsky.social Small publishing house giving a voice to authors. https://tslbooks.uk
Includes imprint for Great War in Africa Association (gweaa.com) and TSL Drama
Jojohook2003 @jojohook.bsky.social Professional Battlefield Guide & Military Historian WW1/WW2 Op MG, WF - MA WW1. Presentations & podcasts. Dad designed Quality Street tins & drew maps in WW2
Russ Warburton @warby315.bsky.social Keen interest in the Great War,Author of 9 Books,Chester FC, proud member of The Great War Group,WFA,CWGC Volunteer all views my own
Bart Debeer @bartdebeer.bsky.social AZEB-FCB-GWG-PKHGSJSB-DJ
Jocke Hallberg - Battlefield Swede @battlefieldswede.bsky.social SWE Army officer and veteran. (SFOR, ISAF, EUFOR, MINUSMA) Research about Swedes in WW1.
Adore to walk around Ypres Salient. Member of @GreatWarGroup
westernfront.se
Rick Smith @greatwarnerd.bsky.social First World War historian, guide and researcher. MA in FWW Studies #wlvuni. Soon to be published author.!
Andy Lock @bigandylock.bsky.social Great War, History, & Rugby.
PhD @ University of Suffolk, BEF Infantry tactical development 1916-1917.
Guiding battlefields, Germany and London.
@howtodohistory Director.
Karaoke hound.
John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social Man of Kent. Military history anorak. Battlefield guide. Biker. CWGC volunteer. IC, GWG & WFA member. Wargamer. BA (Hons) in War Studies.
Neil Pudney @neilpuds.bsky.social Amateur Historian/Gt War researcher/battlefield visitor. Writing about 133 FdAmb in WW2. CPFC. Music nut. Takes photos. Carer. Used to cut grass. Great War Group & WFA member.
https://stjohnsleatherheadatwar.co.uk/
Mesut Uyar @mesutuyar.bsky.social Professor. Ottoman-Turkish Military Historian. University of New South Wales Canberra. Graduate of Turkish Military Academy & University of İstanbul Political Sciences, currently living in #Sydney 🇹🇷🇦🇺🎖
Geoff Sullivan @geoff7400.bsky.social Arrived here from the other place. Formerly known as geoffsengine.
Profile sketch of Battenhall VAD hospital by Pte. F. W. Rigby, Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Geoffs Search Engine is back, updated.
http://www.hut-six.co.uk/cgi-bin/searchWW1.php
Michael Wilmot @mickyw.bsky.social Northampton saints & Liverpool fan. Great War Group. I C member. 16th Rifle Brigade. Turning old disgracefully with any luck
Dr Sylvia Valentine @historylady2013.bsky.social Genealogy, medical history, life long learning student. PhD: "Controlling Smallpox in Scotland: Variolation, Compulsory Vaccination and the Rise of the Anti-Vaccination Movement 1721-1918.
Hawthorn Ridge Crater Association @hawthornridgeca.bsky.social The Hawthorn Ridge Crater Association is a charitable organisation with the intention to maintain, preserve and study this iconic Great War battlefield
Chris Kolonko-Weet @ckolonko.bsky.social Archaeologist specialising in UK's F/SWW Home Front & Invasion Defences. Often mistaken for a palaeontologist, architect, & 'pillbox hunter'. I don't know anything about the Atlantic Wall.
chriskolonko.wordpress.com
youtube.com/@remembertheregs
Mike Peters @mikehistorian.bsky.social WWII Historian, Battlefield Guide and former soldier, sharing his deep knowledge on glider operations, the Army Air Corps, and the Mighty Eighth.
Bethany Moore @historyandmoore.bsky.social Military and 20thC Historian and Battlefield Tour Guide. Co-founder of the Great War Group.
http://historyandmoore.com - history blogs, media work, talk requests and more
Disney/Sweet Treats/WBA
Black Country wench now transplanted into Shropshire
Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social Footsteps of the Fallen WW1 podcast
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/footsteps-of-the-fallen/id1528864547
Military historian, podcaster, writer, cricket lover, darts player, fisherman and semi-professional grumpy old man.
Vickers MG Collection & Research Association @vickersmg.bsky.social Registered Charity No. 1210266 (England and Wales). To advance the education of the public in the subject of military history and firearms, in particular (but not exclusively) in relation to the Vickers machine gun.
NK Finney @nathankfinney.com Soldier | Historian | Fellow, Duke Prgrm on American Grand Strategy, IPSI @AtlanticCouncil.bsky.social, & GNSI USF | Ed. @britjnlmilhist.bsky.social | Chair, Advisory Board @milwritersguild.bsky.social | “Orchestrating Power” (@cornellupress.bsky.social)
Gallipoli Association @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social Gallipoli Association aims: to advance education, encourage & facilitate study of the Campaign, keep alive its memory & ensure all who served are not forgotten
Rivets and Pins @rivetsandpins.bsky.social @peteblanchard.bsky.social 's military history account.
I focus primarily on AFV development/warfare 1915-42.
Warning: may contain humour.
For more detail: https://rivets-and-pins.beehiiv.com/
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Dr Julia Ribeiro Thomaz @juliarsct.bsky.social
Researcher in Anthropology, French Studies, History & Digital Humanities, working on the poetry of the Great War 📚 Rugby player/coach 🏉 Cat person 😻
Manon Pignot @manonpignot.bsky.social Historienne des expériences enfantines et juvéniles de la guerre.
Allison L. Bennett @taureanhistorian.bsky.social •PhD 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
Sara-Jane Vigneault @sjvigneault.bsky.social PhD candidate @camhistory.bsky.social | Intimacy between French colonised soldiers/workers and Europeans in France & Germany (1914-1950)
Co-convenor of Ambivalent Archives (CRASSH)
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/sara-jane-vigneault
@iciaurriz.bsky.social @iciaurriz.bsky.social Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. 20th Europe-Communism (esp politics & ideas) and political violence / Formely at Durham Univeristy. PhD from Edinburgh University. LGTBQ+He/Him 🏳️🌈.
Ian Isherwood @iaisherwood.bsky.social Professor of War & Memory Studies at Gettysburg College. FWW historian. Books: The Battalion (2024), Remembering the Great War (2017). Cocktails, tweed, angling, etc. Co-host of @theivoryattic.bsky.social
Dr Jenny Macleod @jennymacleod.bsky.social Historian of war and memory, commemoration and national identity. First and Second World Wars, especially Gallipoli. Co-founder @fwwsoc. Wannabe digital humanities type.
Connie Ruzich @wherrypilgrim.bsky.social First World War researcher and Fulbright Scholar (University of Exeter) from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.”(Novalis)
Stephen Chambers @stevejchambers.bsky.social Author, Military Historian and Battlefield Guide. Studying 19th & 20th century military history
- Also on Twitter, Instagram & http://redcoatandkhaki.com
Jonny Dyer @kaiserjonny.bsky.social TV legal chap. First World War MA (Wolverhampton MAfia) and PhD candidate. Studying the performance of 6 BEF divisions on the Western Front 1917-1918. It’ll be mostly that on here, just so you know. Plus some general nonsense. And a bit of the Chels too.
Stuart Major @majorhistory.bsky.social Masters in Military History, working full time, side projects in community history, FRGS, MRHistS
https://www.major-history.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/MajorHistory1
Maartje Abbenhuis @maartjeabb.bsky.social Historian at large || Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland
Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social Historian of First World War photography 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 | Museum Jill of all trades | author of: The Taking of Vimy Ridge: First World War photographs of William Ivor Castle
𝟙𝟜𝟙𝟠𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 @fourteeneighteen.co.uk longlongtrail.co.uk / Hereford FC / Leicester Riders / Working on a history of 1st South Staffords
Dave Long @axe99.bsky.social Personal account, all opinions my own and not representative of anyone/thing else. Interested in critical thinking, naval history and raising ME/CFS awareness. Also, random nice photos :)
Tim Godden @tjgodden.bsky.social Artist, historian, wanderer, keen but average cyclist, husband and dad.
Art: timgodden.co.uk
Daniel Maul @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
Mark Stout @markstout.bsky.social Former intelligence officer and university educator, current intelligence historian. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea. Not flying with Natalie.
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Angélique Ibáñez Aristondo @angeliquearistondo.bsky.social assistant professor in French & Francophone studies at UCD. New book: https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781836243168
Mathieu Gotteland @mathieugotteland.bsky.social PhD in History of international relations. Autistic.
Posts on Somalia, Sudan, African geopolitics
Research interests: Informal imperialism, Foreign concessions in China, WWI-era espionage, Indian, Vietnamese independentisms, Terrorism, Ethics of war
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
David Underdown @davidunderdown.bsky.social Data Engineer at The National Archives. Digital Preservation/Digital Archiving. Also cycling, bellringing, photography, choral singing, promming and much more
Dr Jane Potter @drjanepotter.bsky.social Associate Professor, School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, ed. Selected Letters of Wilfred Owen (OUP) & A History of WWI Poetry (CUP), native Californian, Shih Tzu enthusiast
Oksana Dudko @oksanadudko.bsky.social historian and theatre curator | violence, body, the first world war, and the 1917 revolutions | Ukraine, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union | also write about contemporary Ukrainian theatre | in theatre when not in the archives
Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social Ottakringerin & Historian of late Habsburg Monarchy * University of Innsbruck & University of Vienna * https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/projects/scheer/
Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Historian, Devon, WW1; Author; Farmer’s son; Views my own, reposts not endorsements;
Rich Hendry @parhistory.bsky.social Contented (gran)dad, gracefully ageing trenchhopper, #MUFC fan | MA #FWW Wolverhampton | Editor ‘London Pride’; Mil Hist especially #FWW #AmericanCivilWar | #LondonPride #47LondonDiv
@militaryhistorygk.bsky.social @militaryhistorygk.bsky.social Interested in the wars of the 20th century but mainly the Great War. MA in British FWW Studies. YouTube and Teemill.