Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social I teach and research the history of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (@lseechist.bsky.social) ⋅ member @rehpere.bsky.social ⋅ research associate @historyecon.bsky.social ⋅ personal website: https://cleocz.com/
Maisie Jepson (she/her) @girlinthewrongera.bsky.social 📚MA History graduate and independent researcher.
Interested in gender, social and cultural history, told through fashion, textiles and oral histories of women.
Usually chatting about banners and all that jazz.
Iago Mora @iagomora.bsky.social PhD student KCL. Previously LSE & La Caixa Fellow. Political theory and queer history.
@horhpodcast.bsky.social @horhpodcast.bsky.social Hollywood or History? Unpack fact vs. fiction in film. Great for teachers, trivia buffs, and history fans. New episodes every other week.
Available on Spotify, Apple, and YouTube
https://youtube.com/@hollywoodorhistorypodcast?si=gNOPQUnVXde2_NZz
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
EGT 📚 @egtfirefall.bsky.social Writer, editor, researcher.
Newsletter amplifies women leading the church around the world, throughout history. Master of Arts.
Living bonus days.
Celebrating organic intelligence.
elizabethglassturner.substack.com
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.
Dorset @dorsetuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Dorset, UK
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/
Sreenanti Banerjee @sreenanti-banerjee.bsky.social Political Scientist and Historian at the University of Bristol, UK. Currently working on global histories of gender, postcoloniality and welfare activism.
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)
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 Sarah Flew @c19thphilanthropy.bsky.social C19th historian fascinated by philanthropy & charity. Latest book examines Lord Overstone's philanthropy in period 1843-83. Oh and I’m a fundraiser as well! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/charitable-giving-in-victorian-britain-9781350424593/
Friends of Friendless Churches @friendlesschurches.bsky.social Our 'A Victorian Revival match-funding campaign' aims to save two historic churches in Lincolnshire and Carmarthenshire. These churches are at risk of being lost forever
Support our match-funding now, and every £ given will be matched by our generous donor
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.
Kiri Ross-Jones @kirirj.bsky.social Botany (and botanicals) loving archivist, and occasional forest school assistant 🌿 All views are own.
Dr Michelle Johansen @historitage.bsky.social Social historian, researching &
writing about British librarians & #PubLibs in the long nineteenth century. Learning & Outreach Manager at the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Eleanor @eleanor-19thc.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth researching women botanists in the long nineteenth century
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
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
Morwenna Ludlow @morwennaexe.bsky.social Professor of Early Christian History at the University of Exeter; Canon Theologian at Exeter Cathedral. Crafter of prose, cushions and woolly socks.
I lift my eyes to the hills.
Oonagh Gay @oonaghgay.bsky.social Retired House of Commons official and walking tour guide specialising in women and political history. Upcoming walks can be found at the following link. https://www.eventbrite.com/o/11054676824
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-/
Kelly Bosomworth @kellybosomworth.bsky.social Collaborative PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham with the Women's Library. Researching the Six Point Group (she/her).
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
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
Janice Tullock @jtullock.bsky.social Archivist, consultant, genealogist, mentor. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them!
www.c20society.org.uk
Lissa Evans @lissakevans.bsky.social Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog.
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
Dr Kathryn Rix @kathrynrix.bsky.social Co-editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music 🎵 🏳️🌈 Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham.
Dr Stacey Clapperton @sclapperton.bsky.social Curator: Parliament Art Collection at UK Parliament | Modern British Art | #WW1 and #WW2 Art | Northern | Views my own
Sarah Radford @sarahradford.bsky.social Archivist, museum-goer, history lover.
Eve Patten @evepatt.bsky.social Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
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
Maura @mkarchivist.bsky.social Archivist (women religious archives), historian, librarian. PhD (CUNY). Early modern history of archives ~ family record keeping and archives. she/her. Views my own, etc. Somewhere on the Hudson.
Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social The Friends of The Women's Library support The Women's Library at LSE in acquisition, preservation and education. https://friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social Welcome to the official account of the University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Visit us at www.crassh.cam.ac.uk Newsletter via tinyurl.com/crasshnews
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social
The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social ~ all about the archives ~
A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Jonathan Moss @jmoss88.bsky.social Political historian at University of Sussex. Currently researching ageing and political understandings in modern Britain.
UK Research and Innovation @ukri.org The UK’s largest public funder of research. Our mission is to advance knowledge, improve lives and drive growth.
#FundedByYou
Also autoposting to @news.ukri.org, @funding.ukri.org, @blogs.ukri.org and @events.ukri.org. Topic specific feeds coming soon!
Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
Nick Fitzhenry @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social Postdoc at CAMPOP & King's College, Cambridge
PhD in Economic History, LSE.
nicholasfitzhenry.co.uk
Research: death, disease & doctors during Apartheid
Methods: Applied econometrics & historical demography.
Teaching: Industrial Rev., History of Middle East
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.
Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social Red Duchess, biog of the Duchess of Atholl MP, OUT NOW. Freelance public affairs, small person wrangling, incurable reader, always trying to write. Also on IG.
Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social Historian of identities, education and social movements in modern Britain. Interested in antiracism and pedagogy. Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Kings College London.
Micaela Panes @dwi-micaela.bsky.social PhD in Labour women’s activism c.1920-60s @CardiffUni 🏴 | Publicity @llafur.bsky.social 💻 | Former Vice President Postgraduate Students @cardiffstudents.bsky.social 📢 |Personal account
Ceryl @politicdormouse.bsky.social Historian Curator Wikimedian 🤓🏴🇪🇺 🗃️ Hic Sunt Dracones 🐑🍬 “Wiki Medium” ☠️ (you need to be dead before I write about you). History of #WomenInSTEM & other things that catch my interest. Every month is #WomensHistoryMonth here
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Argula @argular.bsky.social Project Curator (Cataloguing Lead), SOAS Library
Kate Lister @k8lister.bsky.social Sex Historian. Writer. Presenter. Columnist. Host of (award winning) Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. FLICK: A History of Female Pleasure, Out Now https://linktr.ee/drkatelister
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
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social Femme the city! Exploring the (re)production/labor/work/care in/of/for/as the city
[PhD in progress on 1970s feminist spatial politics in London + NYC]
Jane Robinson @janerobinson.bsky.social Social historian; 13 books include 'Bluestockings', 'Ladies Can't Climb Ladders' & 'Trailblazer' (a biog of Barbara Bodichon). FRHistS, FRGS, Arts Society, www.jane-robinson.com
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own.
Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
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) 🌈
LSE Department of International Development @lseid.bsky.social LSE International Development promotes interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research.
Protests and Suffragettes @scotsuffragette.bsky.social A creative project led by artists, activists, & archivists. Recovering & re-voicing #herstories & Celebrating #Scotland's #Suffragettes
🗣@tsBeall @clarethompson & other P&S team members
https://linktr.ee/protestsandsuffragettes
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Social History Curators Group @shcg.bsky.social Not just for curators! Social history? Museums? Join us!
No bio, no follow back.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shcg-conference-2025-curating-communities-tickets-1353581481649
The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us!
linktr.ee/victoriansociety
Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
TrowelBlazers @trowelblazers.bsky.social Pioneering women in archaeology, palaeontology & geology — past & present. Posts by Tori Herridge, Becky Wragg Sykes, Brenna Hassett, and Suzie Birch. www.trowelblazers.com
Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social Lecturer in History Education at UCL's Institute of Education/History teacher/PhD student researching the representation of LGBTQ+ history in the KS5 curriculum. She/Her
claireholliss.wordpress.com
Kickass Women of History @kickasswomenof.bsky.social PODCAST LAUNCHING 7TH JAN!
Each week, Amy and Emma will be joined by a different expert to discuss the life of a woman from the past who deserves to be better known. They could be from anywhere in the world, and have lived at any time in the past.
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social Landscape architect, art historian, Professor at Liverpool School of Architecture interested in history, gender and climate futures. Mum of two great kids and a vizsla. PI Women of the Welfare Landscape https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/womenofthewelfarelandscape
Wendy Moore @wendymoore99.bsky.social Journalist, author of six non-fiction books on medical and social history.
Prof Sharon Crozier-De Rosa @scrozierderosa.bsky.social UOW Historian | Bks on Shame, Anti-Feminism & Empire, Remembering Women's Activism, & Emotions Sources | Irish Migrant | Dep Editor Women’s History Review | Views my own
Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social Research fellow at Swansea working on fiefs of medieval & early modern Jersey; women in the Plantagenet world, first book on the Palace of Westminster; formerly @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, UWE, York and Durham; was once called Irene Adler; dogs; she/her.
Roxanne Douglas @roxannedouglas.bsky.social Assistant Prof at IAS University of Warwick. World-Literatures, Feminism, Arab Feminism, Gothic, Apocalypses. Women in World-Literature organiser. She/her.
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
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
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)
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
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
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Lyndsey Jenkins @teadevotee.bsky.social Historian of women and politics, feminism, the left in modern Britain.
LSE Middle East Centre @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social LSE MEC builds on LSE's long engagement with the Middle East and provides a central hub for the wide range of research on the region.
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc- V Rachel Smith @valuequestion.bsky.social Lecturer in Anthropology & Museum Studies. Vanuatu/Western Pacific; labour migration, kava, social change. Co-editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Dr SM Rodriguez (they/them) @smrodriguez.bsky.social Assc Prof of Gender, Rights and Human Rights @ LSE, Penal Abolitionist, Black disabled QT 🏳️⚧️🌍, Author of "The Economies of Queer Inclusion" | all views are my own
www.smrodriguez.com
LSE Philosophy @lsephilosophy.bsky.social #Philosophy News from The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method and The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science (CPNSS) at #LSE
Australian Dictionary of Biography @ausdictionarybiog.bsky.social 📖 Est. 1959
🖋 Based in the National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
📍 On Ngunnawal/Ngambri land
https://adb.anu.edu.au
https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/ncb
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
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/
Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie Fostering excellence and scholarship to enrich society, e. 1785.
Home to the RIA Library, 8 research programmes & a publishing house.
www.ria.ie
Reg. Charity No. 20003524 - Reg. Revenue No. CHY 2795
MEMS @memsunikent.bsky.social The Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at the University of Kent | MA & PhD scholarships available.
For our latest updates: linktr.ee/MEMS_UniKent
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.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Mile End Institute @mileendinstitute.bsky.social We are @qmul.bsky.social's leading institute for British politics, political history and policymaking. Keep updated with news about our latest events, opinion polling and research by signing up to our mailing list!
https://www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/contact-us/
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk