Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
Geneva Graduate Institute @gvagrad.bsky.social A leading institution of research and higher education dedicated to the study of world affairs, located in the heart of International Geneva.
🌍️ www.graduateinstitute.ch
Jack Deasley @jldeasley.bsky.social 23. He/him. Doing a PhD in notions of success in ‘left behind’ areas at UCL. Wycombe Wanderers enthusiast. Governor at Banovallum School, Horncastle.
Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social Bisexual history, queer history, cats. she/her
Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk 🗳️ Mapping UK Elections & Collating Polling Data
nowcast / posters / much more @ electionmaps.uk
support my work @ https://ko-fi.com/electionmapsuk
Patterns of Prejudice @pop-jrnl.bsky.social We've been analysing racism and xenophobia across the globe since 1967. 5 issues a year published by Taylor and Francis.
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
HistorialDam @historialdam.bsky.social Apprenti archiviste // Recherches sur l’histoire de la presse queer 🏳️🌈
Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social but views own.
Sadiah Qureshi 🦈 @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize, Royal Society’s Trivedi Prize. 2025 best book for FT, Guardian, BBC History & Smithsonian.
Views own. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
Steph Wright @estefwright.bsky.social Historian of modern Spain in Lancaster. Interests: gender, sexual violence, #dishist, mental health, medical humanities. Currently working on the history of thalidomide in Spain.
Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Aoife O'Leary McNeice @aoifeolearymcneice.bsky.social History postdoc at University of Galway/Ollscoil na Gaillimhe
Working on a more-than-human history of hydro-electricity on the Rivers Lee, Erne & Liffey. Finishing a book on global giving & the Irish Famine.
she/they
https://aoifeolearymcneice.com/
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
Esther Katharina Zitterl @e-zitterl.bsky.social PhD researcher in English, University of St Andrews 🏴
Black British literature · the Windrush generation 📚
Europaeum Scholar 2026–28 🇪🇺 · Co-Chair, SGSAH Doctoral Researcher Committee 🤓
She/her · Bad Ischl ⇋ St Andrews 🇦🇹/🇬🇧
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Alan ✨ @alanlee99.bsky.social 
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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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
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare.
Serian Carlyle @serianc.bsky.social PhD student at UCL SSEES working on youth film in the late Soviet Union. She/Her.
University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social Archaeology and History department @exeter.ac.uk - posting about research, excavations, news and events
https://linktr.ee/UniofExe_ArchaeologyandHistory
Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social Journalist and Historian | Royal Society of Literature award-winning writer and Orwell Prize finalist 2026
Orla Egan she/her @orlaegan1.bsky.social Founder Cork LGBT Archive http://corklgbtarchive.com
Author: Diary Of An Activist http://diaryofanactivist.com
and Queer Republic of Cork Books
Director: LOAFERS Documentary and I'm Here, I'm Home, I'm Happy documentary
Hugo Bouvard @hbouvard.bsky.social Maître de conférences/Associate Professor. Université Paris Cité.
Sexual minorities, social movements, political careers, France +USA.
Latest book: https://www.septentrion.com/fr/livre/?GCOI=27574100589030
Website: https://hugobouvard.cygale.net
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social I write about how to use AI for academic purposes | Building ChatAcademia.com
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
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Daniel Carey @danielmcarey.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher. Former journalist. Media history. Oral history. Currently researching the (Catholic) Standard newspaper (1928-1978). Funded through the Research Ireland Government of Ireland scheme. Based at Dublin City University
Caroline Gonda (she/her) @liederfollower.bsky.social queer receptionista (h/t Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social), lover of songs and stories, writer of flash. #LWithTheT
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Dr. Morgan Wait @mwait13.bsky.social Historian of late 20th century Ireland. Interests in media, recreation, gender, and sexuality. Dog parent. Historian for the lols. They/them
Gareth M. Thomas @gmthomas.bsky.social Reader | Cardiff University
Sociologist (Disability | Health and Illness | Reproduction | Stigma)
Co-Editor in Chief of 'Sociology of Health and Illness'
He | Him | His
Lisa Hellriegel @lisamirabai.bsky.social she/her | PhD student @ uni bremen | history of sexuality & sexual violence | thesis on the reclassification of sexual violence from morality/Sittlichkeit to sexual self-determination/Selbstbestimmung in German criminal law, 1920s-1973
Global Health Centre (GHC) @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social The Global Health Centre (GHC) is the Geneva Graduate Institute’s research, convening and education centre on Global Health Governance and Diplomacy.
🔗 www.graduateinstitute.ch/globalhealth
📩 globalhealth@graduateinstitute.ch
Suerie Moon @sueriemoon.bsky.social Professor of Practice Intl Rel/PolSci & Director @gvagrad-ghc.bsky.social. Teach, research, write on global governance & health, outbreaks, innovation & access to medicines.
https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/faculty/suerie-moon
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Thomas Jones @moonjets.bsky.social I work @lrb.co.uk, most of my opinions are other people’s
Alexander Clapp @alexclapp.bsky.social journalist. author of WASTE WARS. alexdclapp@gmail.com
Adam Shatz @adamshatz.bsky.social US editor of The London Review of Books; author of “The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon” and “In Search of a Sound,” a book about the Black American musical avant-garde from Coltrane to the present (out from FSG in 2027).
Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social Rare Books Specialist @theul.bsky.social |
Hon. Secretary @bibsoc.bsky.social | Fellow @antiquaries.bsky.social | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (thesis linked in pinned post) 🌈
Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social historian, PhD @BirkbeckUoL on sex work, public health and HIV/AIDS in late 20thc Britain 🍞🌹 she/her 🍉
Simon Huxtable @shux.bsky.social Historian of global media and socialism / Researcher on Connecting 3 Worlds project / Improviser / Pawn pusher 
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Siobhán Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
Meredith Carroll @historicalmeredith.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
Robert Piggott @rpiggott.bsky.social Historian. Researching a disparate mix of voluntary action, medical, religious, and media histories in modern Britain.
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Expanding Horizons @exphorizonslgbt.bsky.social Expanding Horizons ignites a sense of pride and inspires individuals to learn about and celebrate the LGBT+ community's rich heritage through traveling exhibits.
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
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
Try the LRB for just £6: lrb.me/social
Sophie Loy-Wilson @sophieloywilson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Australian History @University of Sydney
Chinese Australians | immigration & economic history
Liang Qichao's 梁启超 visit to Australia 1900-1901
https://tinyurl.com/yj2y37hs
Series editor: China & the West in the Modern World (SUP)
UvA Faculty of Humanities @uvahumanities.bsky.social Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam
Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social History Assistant Prof. & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy).
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
Chloe @chloerosecoombe.bsky.social 🎐👶🏼 Vera's māmā
🤓 PhD candidate in history at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, University of Otago looking at HIV and AIDS and end of life experiences.
🏡 Ōtepoti, Aotearoa, New Zealand
Toitū Te Tiriti
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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: https://subscribe.emailblaster.cloud/MjEyMjQ/122.html
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sign-up for daily email news alerts: http://healthpolicy-watch.news
Rafał Majka @dazzler25.bsky.social -PhD in culture studies/ post in gender, foresight and STS;
-sexual health counsellor at a VCT based in Cracow, PL;
-member of EATG, EACS, AAE;
• HIV/AIDS and sexual health studies • LGBTQ+ migration and refugee studies • anthropology of organising
Monica B. Pearl @mbpearl.bsky.social teacher reader expat/immigrant newyorker in Manchester UK
monicapearl.com
Michael Nebeling Petersen @nebeling.bsky.social Kønsforsker, Københavns Universitet.
Associate professor in gender and sexualiy studies at the University of Copenhagen.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
the fab IHEID @gvagrad-thefab.bsky.social La Fabrique de la Paix (the fab) is the Geneva Graduate Institute’s innovation lab. It aims to be a creative and safe space that promotes and showcases collaborative solutions.
🔗 https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/fab
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Adrian Lehne @adrianlehne.bsky.social Historian | History Education | History of HIV/AIDS and Sexualities in the FGR and GDR | at FU Berlin
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Dora Vargha @doravargha.bsky.social Prof. of History and Medical Humanities at @exeter.ac.uk and @humboldtuni.bsky.social . Berlin. Connecting Three Worlds, Socialist Medicine, After the End. Occasional stress baking.
Benoît Majerus @majben.bsky.social Historian @c2dh (University of Luxembourg)
Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and tax havens
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social We foster research on issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and the world.
The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social Mark Smith, the Man in Seat 61, the chap who runs that train travel site http://seat61.com. YouTube: http://youtube.com/c/seat61.
Byway Travel | Train trips across Europe @bywaytravel.bsky.social Travel through, not over.
Beautiful custom routes and stays, by land and sea. Supported by no-fly travel experts.
https://www.byway.travel/about/linkinbio?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=linkinbio
Michael George @mikeyjgeorge.bsky.social PhD candidate studying social and cultural history in 1960s and 70s: sex, secularism, suicide and The Samaritans. University of Huddersfield.
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social Historian @uvahumanities.bsky.social | PhD @HPSCambridge.bsky.social | Author of https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo290149621.html | https://shorturl.at/i7kip | he | 🍉🌻🟥
Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social Head of #Archives & #Records Mgt and Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing
History, Heritage #DigitalArchives #WomensHistory
Jack @winonastryder.bsky.social 
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Bristol University, Queen Mary University of London and British Library AHRC project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present'
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Joseph Price @joseph-price.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Warwick | Centre for the History of Medicine, Science & Technology | Histories of Sexual Health at University in Postwar England
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2282164/
Michael Helquist @mhelquistwriter.bsky.social Activist, historian, author, "Marie Equi: Radical Politics & Outlaw Passions," Stonewall Honor Book for bio of 1900s lesbian doctor & activist., worked for CDC WHO, served as director of AIDSCOM.
#women'shistory, #LGBTQ, #AIDS #gayhistory #memoir #USAID
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Giorgi Ninos @giorgininos.com Independent Journalist focused on LGBTQIA+ rights; Human rights and EU enlargement. 🇪🇺🇬🇪
☕️ Support me: https://ko-fi.com/giorgininos
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anthony petro @apetro.bsky.social Historian of religion, visual culture, sexuality
Mostly nerdy academic stuff & whippet pics
Provoking Religion: Sex, Art, & the Culture Wars (OUP 2025)
After the Wrath of God: AIDS, Sexuality, & American Religion (OUP 2015)
https://linktr.ee/anthonypetro
Dr Anne Hanley @drannehanley.bsky.social #Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums
Olivia Weisser @oliviaweisser.bsky.social Historian of early modern medicine, health, healing, sexuality, gender Author of The Dreaded Pox (CUP), Ill Composed (Yale)
Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition.
SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Journal of the History of Sexuality @jhistsex.bsky.social Academic journal on the history of sexuality in all its expressions. Spans geographic and temporal boundaries. Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary.
https://t.co/KfX7n8lsAg
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.