JoannaMWilliams @joannamw.bsky.social Historian, nature and music lover. Author of historical biographies on Mancunian Victorians Abel Heywood and Lydia Becker. And now I have a new book out: ‘Emmeline’s Loving Comrade: Richard Marsden Pankhurst, the man who inspired the Suffragette leader’.
Audrey Golden @audreyjgolden.bsky.social Author.
🔸I Thought I Heard You Speak: Women at Factory Records
🔸Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats
🖋QUEERCORE 33⅓ Genre Series
Lamine’s Left Foot @hillaryjhaldanephd.bsky.social Anthropologist
Professor
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Pavel Brunssen @brunssen.bsky.social Research Associate & Alfred Landecker Lecturer @Heidelberg University. Cultural Studies | Antisemitism & Antigypsyism | Memory Studies | Popular Culture (Football, Carnival, Media) | Public Scholarship
Patrick Sullivan @atlsoccerpast.bsky.social Architecture, music, general history and history of soccer in Atlanta/the South along with various other random stuff. Currently obsessed with film photography & vintage cameras.
Soccer Shorts @soccershorts.bigpinedigital.com Shining a spotlight on grassroots soccer stories. Returning in the spring of 2025.
YouTube: @BPDSoccerShorts
Café Fútbol @cafefutbol.bsky.social El añejo Blog nacido en 2007, ahora también por estos lares. Seguimos posteando en http://cafefutbol.blogspot.com/?m=1
Autores:
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Marc Bernstein @marcbernstein261.bsky.social MSc Politics & BA (Hons) Politics, Philosophy & History Birkbeck University of London, Civil Servant From & live in London Uk. politics History & intl affairs, Culture, Jewish life, Soccer. Also on here to make friends. Straight Single & Jewish
Stefan Magnussen @smagnussen.de Machte früher Transfer zu Burgen. Heute von einer.
Regionalhistoriker | Burgen | Schleswig-Holstein, Dänemark, Nordatlantik | Fußballgeschichte | Podcasting | Rechtsextremismus und Regionalgeschichte
Jon Newswanger (he/him) @jontheref.bsky.social Just the usual: soccer, disability (mostly autism) awareness, progressive politics, and open and relational theology.
Jack Senior @jacksenior42.bsky.social Engineer by day, grassroots football coach and committee member most of the rest of the time. A busy man.
Co-host of the Sporting Almanac Podcast.
linktr.ee/TheSportingAlmanac
Jan de Leeuw @jandeleeuw.bsky.social Auteur, adviseur en docent.
Belangstelling voor filosofie, wetenschap, politiek, kunst en sport.
Sound of Football Podcast @sofpodcast.com Since 2009. Independent football podcast. New eps every Tuesday.
Posts by @firefli.es
Other voices: @terryduffelen.com and @janbilton.bsky.social
Website: sofpodcast.com
Discord: https://discord.gg/GxnWvbSVKG
Weekly newsletter: soundoffootball.substack.com
PMurtagh @pmurtagh.bsky.social Football, Archaeology (PhD), Music
Christian Schröder @christianschroeder.eurosky.social Hi! 👋🏻 I'm Christian and I research the history and current social dynamics of 🙏🏻 religion, ⚽️ sports and 🎮 popular culture.
„Bridges, not borders will build the future“
Canadian Soccer History Archives @cansoccerhist.bsky.social Bringing the storied history of Canadian Soccer under one banner.
Proud member of ANCCIF
Official historians of Simcoe County Rovers FC
cansha.coffeecup.com
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
The Sporting Almanac Podcast @thesportingalmanac.bsky.social A podcast for people who love sport, made by two people who love sport.
Currently on paternity leave 😊
linktr.ee/TheSportingAlmanac
Fher @ferdinand.eurosky.social Economics teacher and global citizen dedicated to linking real-world issues to economic principles, inspiring students to think critically and act for a sustainable future.
Signal: FherKjell.11
Mark Ambler @markambler76.bsky.social Historian of sport. I am currently researching and writing my first book.
Crystal Palace fan, Sevilla FC socio, Bexhill FC follower.
I love food, travel, reading, film, series, and lots of sport.
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
BAR Publishing @barpublishing.bsky.social Independent Publisher of the world's largest academic archaeological series with over 4000 titles.
@ipghq Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year '22
Chingford Historical Society @chingfordhist.bsky.social Promoting the history of Chingford through regular talks, meetings and visits. Non-members welcome.
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social Author, Historian, Presenter, Broadcaster, Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London
Website: https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
Maynooth University Graduate Research Academy @mu-gra25.bsky.social Supporting postgraduate research students and their supervisors at Maynooth University.
Website: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-research-academy
Scholarships: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/graduate-research-academy/scholarships-funding
Prof Alyson Brown @interwarcrime.bsky.social Historian @ Edge Hill University just embarking on BlueSky. concerned about the world. Views my own.
Little Red Books @littlebooks.red Histories of Salford Red Devils and that.
🖥️ www.littlebooks.red
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. He’s an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Sophie Noble ⛸️ @sophienoble.bsky.social PhD history student at Queen’s University, Belfast researching the intersectional history of women’s figure skating in North America 📚
Society for American Soccer History @ussoccerhistory.org Founded in 1993 by American soccer historian Sam T.N. Foulds, the Society for American Soccer History (SASH) works to promote, facilitate, and disseminate research into the rich history of soccer in the United States.
https://www.ussoccerhistory.org/
Playing Pasts @playingpasts.bsky.social PlayingPasts, the original online magazine for Sport/Leisure History. Created in 2016 the site features & welcomes contributions on any aspect of Sport/Leisure History from researchers at all levels
Football and War Network @footballandwar.bsky.social The Network is made up of colleagues and historians who have an interest in the different elements of the relationship between football and war
Sport in History @sportinhistory.bsky.social Sport in history is the official academic journal of @bssh.bsky.social, covering sport history from all contexts and eras.
You can also check out our podcast: @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social
Verona Campione @rickhough.bsky.social Author of Verona Campione, Verona at War and Notes from Verona. Optimistic Hellas Verona season ticket holder with a passion for the past. And wine. Also beer. Some whisky too.
The Trades Club @thetradesclub.bsky.social Music venue & socialist members club in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.
By the people, for the people
thetradesclub.com
Happy Valley Pride @happyvalleypride.bsky.social Celebrating LGBTQ+ life in Hebden Bridge and surrounding areas, with an annual, eclectic, alternative festival.
https://happyvalleypride.co.uk
Read The Room Magazine @readtheroommag.bsky.social A volunteer-led arts and culture magazine by and about women, the LGBTQIA+ community and marginalised voices.
Hebden Bridge | New York | Paris
Web: https://readtheroommagazine.com/
Email: team@readtheroommagazine.com
HebWeb @hebweb.bsky.social Website for Hebden Bridge since 1995
Kevin Core @kevincore.bsky.social Radio 4 Producer. BBC Audio North. Factual docs, Loose Ends, The Verb. Liverpool and Hebden Bridge. Writer of BBC Audio dramas Welcome to Medpatch and OK Boomer. Co-author I DON'T LIKE YOUR TIE.
Miriam O’Keeffe @miriamokeeffe.bsky.social Kanturk🇮🇪and Hebden Bridge. Director of Operations over at Bradford 2025 UK Capital of Culture.
Visit Hebden Bridge @visithebdenbridge.bsky.social Official account of the visithebdenbridge.com website.
Christopher R Davis @christopherdavis67.bsky.social PhD Historian. Modern America, History of Sport, Desegregation of College Football
Lindsey A. Freeman @lindseyafreeman.bsky.social Lindsey A. Freeman, writer and professor interested in running, soccer/football, and poetics. Her most recent book, Running, is about practice, love, queerness, and long-distance running (Duke).
Insta: atomic_lindsey_freeman
www.lindseyfreeman.net
Prof Stacey Pope @staceypope.bsky.social Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University. Research interests women, football and inequalities.
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) @nasssbsky.bsky.social NASSS exists to promote, stimulate, and encourage the sociological study of play, games, sport, and contemporary physical culture.
Website: NASSS.org
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/north-american-society-for-the-sociology-of-sport
Rob Mathison @robmwrites.bsky.social Writing & other content things. Writing instructor at University of British Columbia. Slowly writing #VWFC & #HMFC football books when not freelancing. linktr.ee/robmathison
William Hill Sports Book Of The Year @bookieprize.bsky.social Richest, most prestigious literary sports book prize in the world: £30,000 prize.
Born 1989. #WHSBOTY
https://news.williamhill.com/sport/sports-book-of-the-year/
The Crunk Cityzen @crunkchocolate.bsky.social 1/4 of Shades of Blue Podcast ⚽️🩵
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🩵Man City Men & Women
💚Werder Bremen
🪽Angel City FC
Perspective peddler. Spreading the Sky Blue gospel to all. YKTV
Amanda Kendal @akendal.bsky.social London-based NGO journalist. Germanophile, MCFC fan (since 1974). Loves Thomas Mann, Kraftwerk, Ultravox, OMD, Discworld, films, books, cats, birds, Minions, B5, Star Trek/Wars. LGBT+. Wish I could ignore politics, but can't. No chat unless I know you
Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Irish | Content Creator - 300k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕
https://theunchartedpast.com/
SoccerBooksLtd @soccerbooksltd.bsky.social Specialist sellers and publishers of football books worldwide since 1982. A huge range of British, European and World soccer books available.
Legendeverloren @legendeverloren.bsky.social Podcast über die Geschichte des Frauenfußballs
www.legendeverloren.de
Cllr Salman Shaheen @salmanshaheen.bsky.social Author of bestselling novel Freebourne. Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport & Public Realm on Hounslow Council. CEO of Carter Fleet. Journalist. FRSA
Promoted by Ted Wall on behalf of Hounslow Labour cllrs
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Beth McCann @bethmccann.bsky.social SHE/HER
Chair of Calderdale Pride 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Aka Mama Pride or Nonna
MCFC
ALT for profile image: a picture of me in my kitchen holding some cupcakes. I'm white, middle aged and I wear glasses.
Dept of Sport & Exercise Sciences - Durham University @dusportexsci.bsky.social Leading multi-disciplinary department of sport and exercise sciences. Consistently ranked in the UK Top 10 best sport-related UG degrees. Top 100 QS World Rankings for sport-related subjects.
https://www.dur.ac.uk/departments/academic/sport-exercise-scien
Annika Becker (sie/ihr) @annikabecker.bsky.social Freiberufliche Journalistin und Podcasterin ✍🏻🎙️⚽ u.a. für Sportschau_de, TAZ, web_de, Fokus auf den Fußball der Frauen. Teil der FRÜF-Crew. Eine Hälfte von "Becker & Pfeiffer. Der Fußballpodcast". Co-Founderin "Bolztribüne" mit Mara Pfeiffer.
@tonyboro.bsky.social @tonyboro.bsky.social 
Anna Greenwood @profannagreenwood.bsky.social Prof of Modern Health History @ University of Nottingham. Health Humanities, history of 20/21C health consumerism, and public health. Now researching the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship. Used to write on Empire. Account personal.
MCFC Fans Foodbank Support @mcfcfoodbank.bsky.social #MCFC fans supporting our local foodbank - donate on weekend matchdays | mcfcfoodbank@gmail.com | Not one step back | #hungerdoesntwearclubcolours #RightToFood
Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social
| "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
Timothy Hines @timothy-hines.bsky.social Film Director - 10 Days in a Madhouse (Christopher Lambert) Tomorrow's Today, (Kelly LeBrock), War of the World's The True Story, The Wilde Girls (Cali Scolari, Lydia Pearl Pentz, Teddy Smith) in theaters 2025, Annie Oakley, If You Only Knew.
James Reade @jjreade.bsky.social Christian, husband, father, Oldham Athletic sufferer, runner, economist
Manchester City Disabled Supporters Association @mcdsa.bsky.social Representing and supporting disabled fans of Manchester City Football Club
Urmston Books & Board Games @urmstonbooks.bsky.social Book shop and board game cafe in Urmston, Manchester. Find us at 72 Flixton Road, Urmston M41 5AB. urmstonbooks.co.uk
Sam Mewis @sammymewy.bsky.social @womensgamemib
Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
Matthew Armstrong @mattarmstrong95.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Durham University | COPD | Physical Activity | Rehabilitation | Exercise Prescription | Physiology 🫁
Hester Hockin-Boyers @hesterhhb.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences @durhamuniversity & feminist researcher of all things health, gender and digital culture ✨👩💻 she/her
Fair Game @fairgameuk.bsky.social Fair Game is a coalition of 'value-driven' football clubs and individuals seeking to improve the governance of football in England and Wales.
Christopher R. Matthews @drcrmatthews.bsky.social ▪︎ Reading, writing & thinking about the moral foundation of scholarship
▪︎ Author of Doing Good Social Science: http://bit.ly/3EgFA2z
▪︎ More about my work: immersiveresearch.co.uk
▪︎ DM for speaking/workshop requests
Arthur Gaillard @arthurgaillard.bsky.social PhD. Research: knowledge production/epistemology of sport, sport for development. 
Nancy Gillen @nancygillen.bsky.social Women's Sports Editor at Touchline / Author of 'La Vie Jamais Racontée: Alice Milliat, a French Heroine and Sporting Suffragette'. ✍️
Catherine MacKenzie @catmackenzie048.bsky.social ✍️ https://impetusfootball.org/2025/01/01/the-lionesses-in-2024-nowhere-near-as-bad-as-the-critics-would-make-you-believe/
Pod @gspnwomens
People of women's football - https://www.instagram.com/peopleofwofo?igsh=YTNrendyOThuYmRk
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Professor Philippa Velija @pvelija.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dean of School of Education (interim) University of Roehampton...Mum to two girls, and a devoted labradoodle owner...
Halvor Hansen Høvring @hhhmanc.bsky.social 
Radosław Kossakowski @rkossakowski.bsky.social Sociologist, University of Gdańsk, Poland, research on sport, football and fandom, qualitative methods, masculinities.
Macca @amac63.bsky.social Tout Est Bleu
Christian Gjersing Nielsen @gjersingnielsen.bsky.social PhD│Senior analyst at the Danish Institute for Sports Studies│sports economics and management; effects and economic valuation of sports events/clubs/stadiums
Journal of Sport History @journsporthist.bsky.social Promotes the study of historical, social, and cultural aspects of sports. Published by the University of Illinois Press and the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH): @nassh1972.bsky.social
History Chrono @historyachannel.bsky.social From the birth of genres to the mechanics of war, we track the timeline of human history across Cinema, Sport, Science, and more.
📜 One event. One post. Every day. #HistoryChrono
Frances Nolan @francesmnolan.bsky.social SFI-IRC (Research Ireland) Pathway Fellow at UCD School of History. PI on Law versus Practice, a digital humanities project exploring women’s property ownership in early modern Ireland.
https://www.lawvpractice.ie/
@dmuhistory.bsky.social @dmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History team at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Archives & Special Collections @ Ohio University @aldenlibdigital.bsky.social Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections, Preservation & Digital Initiatives, Ohio University Libraries @aldenlibrary.bsky.social, Athens.
https://bit.ly/m/archives-ohiouniversity
(Not that XL public uni in Columbus)
Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social Historian at Swansea Uni. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of Sport in Wales.
Sam Clevenger @idlesmc.bsky.social Historian of sport and physical culture | Asst Prof | Author, Physical Culture and the Biopolitics of the International Garden City Movement (Palgrave, 2025)
On This Day in World History 🌎 @on-this-day-world.bsky.social Tweets key events and milestones that shaped our world.
Source: https://www.onthisday.com
For educational purposes only.
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Ph.D., @jeffersonlenskyj.bsky.social Toronto Canada/Sydney Australia. Activist, author, researcher, Professor Emerita, University of Toronto helenlenskyj.ca
My latest book: *THE QUEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SPORT*
Emerald, 2025
My next book *CENSORSHIP, POLITICS AND SPORT*
Scottish Women's Football @scotwomensfootball.bsky.social Scottish Women's Football champions the women and girls in Scotland who play grassroots football and runs the competitions where they shine. #BeTheDifference
Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social The BHC is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history || https://thebhc.org/ news at https://theexchangebhc.substack.com/p/the-bhc-newsletter
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
American Society for Environmental History @aseh.bsky.social Advancing understanding of human interactions with the natural world since 1977
The Organization of American Historians @oah.org Advocating for history. Advancing scholarship. Connecting the past to the present.
American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
http://historians.org/join
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/