Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Scottie Buehler @midwifehistory.bsky.social Midwife and historian of medicine| reproductive justice| PhD #uclahist | asst prof. opinions my own
Book in-progress: “Reproducing Midwives in France & the Atlantic World”
Cat lover and bibliophile
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Dr Paul Huddie @paulhuddie.bsky.social ERC Project Manager | Historian | Coordinator of @milwelfhist.bsky.social and @crimeanwar.bsky.social | also studies royal raval reserves 🇪🇺🇺🇦
For more about me see: http://irishhistorians.ie/members/phuddie/
Lucy Jameson @lucyanne.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Researching disabled expertise and adaptations to technology in the British Post Office #histtech #histsci #histmed
Long-suffering NUFC supporter
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
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social Historian of the social and cultural history of the body, labour, unfreedom, and the market in eighteenth-century Britain.
Claire Edington @clairemakeshistory.bsky.social UCSD professor, historian of medicine and southeast asia, obnoxious boston sports fan, dreaming of paris always. Author of “Beyond the Asylum” (Cornell UP) and forthcoming crossover trade book “Epidemics: A Global History” with Cindy Ermus (UC press)
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
Taylor Soja @historytaylor.bsky.social History professor, central IL. Writing about war in the British empire to 1918. Otherwise making pottery, taking pictures of my cat, plotting travel. (she/her).
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey
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
John Siblon @johnsiblon25.bsky.social Historian interested in legacies of empire and colonialism, especially commemoration of war dead.
Chelsea D Chamberlain @cdchambs.bsky.social Historian of modern US disability and childhood.
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Piers Brown @piersbrown.bsky.social Renaissance literature, poetry and poetics, history of the book and history of science.
Brian Drohan @briandrohan.bsky.social US Army officer and historian of war, humanitarianism, human rights, and the United Nations at the US Military Academy - West Point. Author of *Brutality in an Age of Human Rights* (Cornell UP ‘18).
The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social The University of Chicago Press is one of the oldest and largest university presses in the United States and a distinguished publisher of trade and scholarly books and journals. Refining minds since 1891!
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social Snarky history. Hideous French battleships. Nautical nonsense. Always check the alt text.
Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
Malik A. Hussain @malikaltaf.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Economics | IIM Amritsar | Economic history & public health in colonial India
https://malikahussain.github.io/
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 Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Jessica Meyer @thehistorygirl1.bsky.social Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
Willemijn Ruberg @willemijnruberg.bsky.social Professor Cultural History of the Body at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social). #running
Paul van Trigt @paulvt.bsky.social Historicus | Leiden University | History of disability, human rights, global health, welfare, religion
Leah DeVun @ldevun.bsky.social New here! Author of The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance; historian, photographer & professor at Rutgers University.
Courtney E. Thompson @cethompson.bsky.social #histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | Osiris Editor | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Author of Mortality and Measurement: Race-Medicine, Statistics, and Empire (Cambridge, 2027); Difference and Disease: Race, Medicine, and the 18th Century British Empire (CUP, 2018); Crafting the Quantum (MIT, 2010).
Richard C. Keller, PhD @richardckeller.bsky.social Chair of MedHist/Bioethics at UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Author of Fatal Isolation from the University of Chicago Press (https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo20145393.html). Bicycles/dogs. Views mine. He, him, his.
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Eram Alam @eramalam.bsky.social Historian of medicine and migration @ Harvard. Author of The Care of Foreigners: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare (Oct 2025). Next up: Logistics and Medical Travel.
Isis journal @isisjournal.bsky.social A journal of the History of Science Society
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en&
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Elizabeth O'Brien @eobrien.bsky.social Associate Professor at UCLA, Department of History
Historian of medicine, gender, race, and Mexico
Book: Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469675879/surgery-and-salvation/
King's CHoSTM @kingschostm.bsky.social Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine at King's History.
More about research and what’s on ➡️ www.kingschostm.com
About the Hans Rausing Scholarship ➡️ www.kingschostm.com/funding-opportunities
#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
Fay Bound-Alberti @fayboundalberti.bsky.social Writer and Historian. Interested in bodies, emotions, medicine. THE FACE: A CULTURAL HISTORY @penguinbooks @hachetteus
Christina Ramos @xtinaramos.bsky.social Professor | historian of medicine | author of Bedlam in the New World | new project: Nursing an Empire: Hospitals and Global Health in the Hispanic World
Science and Empire Commission @sciemp.bsky.social Official account of the Science and Empire Commission - SCIEMP
> A Commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST / IUHPST) | https://scienceandempire.com/
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Bruce Buchan @brucealexb.bsky.social Scholar. Historian of ideas. Mostly Enlightenment & race, quite a bit on empire & colonisation, plus some corruption and a little piracy for good measure. Co-author of Race and the Scottish Enlightenment (2025). Proud to announce that I despise AI.
Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su mom close the door im doing journalism
Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
Danielle Kinsey @daniellekinsey.bsky.social historian of 19C Britain & Empire, diamonds, history of the body, material culture, consumption, minerals & mining, teaching & learning, Carleton U, settler🏳️🌈 co-editor-in-chief @h-materialculture.bsky.social
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Dr Robert T. Foley @robertfoley.bsky.social Reader in Defence Studies, King's College London, at the Joint Services Command & Staff College. Sometime writer on warfare and strategic thought, particularly Germany in the First World War. Occasional runner of longish distances. Views my own.
Jennifer Wellington @jenniferwellington.bsky.social Modern History, University College Dublin. My book: Exhibiting War. Researching war trophies and trophy-taking.
Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
Laura Beers @fieryparticle.bsky.social Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️
Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa
https://linktr.ee/lbeers
Dr Emily Jones @jonesemily.bsky.social Historian of politics & ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: An Intellectual History & The Disraeli Myth: The Making of a Conservative Tradition.
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New projects: Infinite Coal: How Britain Became the First Fossil Fuel Economy (Princeton UP, 2027). And with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
Lydia Walker @lydiawalker.bsky.social Historian of global decolonization at Ohio State
Author of STATES-IN-WAITING
https://linktr.ee/lydia_walker
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
Sabine Clarke @sabineclarke.bsky.social Historian of science, technology, medicine and the environment in 20th century Britain, the Caribbean and Africa. PI of “The Chemical Empire” project on the history of past insecticide use. Works at the University of York.
Ravinder Kaur @rkadelhi.bsky.social Author | Professor
Global and Postcolonial History
Brand New Nation: Nationalist Dreams and Capitalist Designs in New India (Stanford & Harpers Collins)
Delhi - Copenhagen
https://ravinderkaur.net/
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Kate Imy @kateimy.bsky.social Writer/cat lover. Author of FAITHFUL FIGHTERS and LOSING HEARTS AND MINDS. Outfest Lab, WGF Veterans Writing Project, AFF screenwriting winner. Rutgers PhD, UT historian.
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/
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
Joint Center for History and Economics @historyecon.bsky.social Official account for the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, University of Cambridge and Sciences Po.
https://histecon.fas.harvard.edu/
https://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/
https://histecon.fr/en/
Priya Lal @priyalalista.bsky.social Historian of Africa and the world
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
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
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 \\
Jasmine E. Harris @jasmineeharris.bsky.social Law Prof. @ University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
Researching Disability Law, Legal Rules, Social Norms, Antidiscrimination Law, Evidence
Research: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2221819
#TheBronx #FirstGen #Latina #pwd
Joshua Ehrlich @drjehrlich.bsky.social Historian of knowledge, books, political thought, British Empire, South Asia, Indian Ocean World | Assoc Prof @ UMacau | Assoc Scholar @ Harvard | Book: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009367967 | Webpage: fah.um.edu.mo/joshua-ehrlich/
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
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
Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social 'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
Taylor C Sherman @taylorcsherman.bsky.social Professor of South Asian History. Researching histories of environmental regeneration, 1940s-present. Nehru and all that, too. Working from Bidjigal land at UNSW Sydney
Privately seeking research on ADHD, ASD, OCD, ALD & ABI
Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
Elisabeth Leake @emleake.bsky.social Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; chief editor, Journal of Global History; decolonization, borders, South Asian internationalism; www.elisabethmarikoleake.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/- C Caroline Shaw @carolineshaw.bsky.social Historian @ Bates; Modern Britain & European empires; author of Britannia's Embrace on the long-19th-c origins of modern refuge; writing on the defense of reputation via British slander and libel law, c. 1750-2000.
Dr Amy Edwards @somsproject.bsky.social Historian at Uni of Bristol interested in cultures of capitalism, business, and finance.
PI on AHRC project: ‘The Secret of My Success’: Women and Self-Employment 1970-2000.
Book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/are-we-rich-yet/hardcover
Paul Laity @paullaity.bsky.social editing @lrb (again), after years as Guardian non-fic editor. Writing book for Penguin/Norton on sandals, sunbaths, muesli, 'bearded fruit-juice drinkers' etc. Campaigner for Martha's Rule in NHS.
Malcolm Gaskill @malcolmgaskill.bsky.social Historian of witches and other things, mostly war and memory. Literary agent @NatFairweather at @rcwlitagency. Film agent: Rebecca Watson @VH_Associates.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social writing and teaching histories of 19 and 20c South Asia and Indian Ocean Worlds.
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
Find out More At: linktr.ee/dis_studies
Marcos Cueto @marcoscuet.bsky.social Historian, Science, Medicine, Latin America & the Global South from Peru/Brazil
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal