Robert Pralat @robertpralat.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology and Public Health
Birkbeck, University of London
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️.
https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
Deena Varner @deena-varner.bsky.social carceral studies :: social control :: lived experience :: CGWG | RGS :: Book: From the Courtroom the Boardroom (UP of Kansas, May 2024) :: reading the documents that govern us :: views my own
Dr. Ty Vanover @tyvanover.bsky.social German art | histories of sex & science
Senior Image Collections Specialist in Art & Archaeology @ Princeton University
JoJoKC 💙🏳️🌈 | Queertauqua @jpe1974.bsky.social Senior Recruiter @ Tallgrass Freight | Apple geek | LEGO reseller | Politics, history & culture | Proud husband of Queertauqua’s creator—bringing overlooked queer history out of the archives and onto the stage. 🏳️🌈 queertauqua.org
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
Lillian Darby 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ | Treehouse of Diversity & Hugs @lilliandarby.bsky.social Hai! ^^ 🐸 am an activist & writer who just wants the world to be a better place
Beautiful, sacred nature 💚 ❤️
A smoool blend of things I love incl. nature(again), 2SLGBTQIA+ history (no froget trans men & aroace!), human rights, poetry, & memes!:D 🔞|22!🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Kaye Mitchell @drkayemitchell.bsky.social Literary academic, Director at Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester. Women's writing, feminism, modern and contemporary lit.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Zoe Neubauer @zneubauer.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University, studying trans identity in the UK, 1970-2004
Nora Lehner @nora-lehner.bsky.social PhD on sexual labour in Vienna (1945-mid-70s) @univienna I Historian at Institut für Historische Sozialforschung I she/her
Christian Rau @christianrau.bsky.social Historian @leibniz-ifz.bsky.social
| East German & Eastern European History | History of Democracy | Protest History | Urban History| Gender History |
Und sonst so: Betriebsrat a.D., Demokrat, Schallplatten-Nerd
Hier ganz privat
Australian Women's History Network @auswhn.bsky.social ~ https://www.auswhn.com.au/ ~ the Australian Women’s History Network (AWHN) promotes research, writing + advocacy in feminist, gender + women's history + publishes the peer-reviewed Lilith: A Feminist History Journal + #VIDAblog ~
Animal History Group @animalhistories.bsky.social The Animal History Group (🌐 animalhistorygroup.org) is an independent international research network for students, academics and other professionals whose work engages with animals in history.
Posts currently by @leafyhistory.bsky.social.
Dani Crowley 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇵🇸 @aquadan1.bsky.social PhD student at Bangor University & ZSL 🦈🏴 | Shark ecology, culture & climate change 🌍 | Trans Rights 🏳️⚧️ | Views all mine | she/her is fine
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
Dr Cath Feely @cathfeely.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds FWF @fwf-at.bsky.social Der Wissenschaftsfonds FWF ist Österreichs zentrale Einrichtung zur Förderung der Grundlagenforschung.
www.fwf.ac.at
scilog – das Wissenschaftsmagazin des FWF:
scilog.fwf.ac.at
Braden Russell @bradruss.bsky.social PhD(c) in Germanic Studies at UBC.
Writing about queer Jewish novels and thinking about conceptions of belonging, sufficiency, and authenticity.
Other interests: Jewish diasporic kinships, queer studies, and food studies.
🗣️: EN/DE/RU/HE
(he/they)
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
Oscar Sharples (he/they) @oscarsharples.bsky.social Incoming PhD student @ Brighton University studying DIY transition & liberatory mutual aid.
Director of Transilience, North Devon’s trans organisation.
🏳️⚧️♾️☪️🍉🇮🇷
Mingyuan Wan @wanmingyuan.bsky.social Thinking about visual media and sexual science, history of attention, and some other stuff, like decentralizing film and media studies:)
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Dr Claudia Kreklau @claudiakreklau.bsky.social Historian and Author, St Andrews (she). Team Leibniz.
Modern Germany, Identity Studies, Food History.
Publications: https://claudiakreklau.wordpress.com/publications/
Brell Wilson-Morris @brellw.bsky.social PhD candidate, working in late 20th century trans histories (US and UK). Convenor of the trans studies phd/early career researchers workshop.
Charlotte Yule @shadowsandcobwebs.bsky.social PhD & Lecturer at UOS. Researching Cornish landscape & becoming in the early twentieth century works of Woolf, du Maurier and Christie. Other interests: spatiality, decay/ruination, psychogeography, wildness & folk history.
AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social The Australian Historical Association was founded in 1973 and is the peak national organisation of historians working in all fields of history.
https://theaha.org.au
Dr Elizabeth English @drelizabethenglish.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Co-lead on AHRC project (2025-2029): 100 Years of The Well of Loneliness
Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social Professor of Social Policy and LGBTQ+ Studies, and Head of Sociology, Social Policy & Criminology, University of Stirling he/him 🏳️🌈
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2014-1241
Lisa Materson @lmaterson.bsky.social Historian of US women's & gender history 🎉RADICAL SOLIDARITY🎉 Newly published @uncpress.bsky.social | https://uncpress.org/book/9781469679921/radical-solidarity/
Author website: https://www.lisamaterson.com
Ethan @drbeef.bsky.social Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Prof by day. Elder emo by night. Critical public health, the science of sex(uality) science, disability justice. Not your average guy (Auti he/they).
Caitlin Reed Wiesner @caitlinrwiesner.bsky.social Professional history buff and feminist killjoy | Writes about gender violence and state violence, often at the same time| Between the Street and the State coming Sept 2025
Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
Michael Lawrence @mpalawrence.bsky.social Queer Historian 🌈| PhD: Male Homosexuality and Irish Migration 1880-1960 | New Project: Dear Friend: Preserving LGBTQIA+ Heritage in Northern Ireland @ Cara-Friend!
Trans Chair & Archives @transchair.bsky.social Chair in Transgender Studies (📧 transchair@uvic.ca) & The Transgender Archives (📧 transarc@uvic.ca) — World's Largest Collection of Trans History
linktr.ee/transchair
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
Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social Chair of English Lit / Global Literature and Its Media
@ Freie Universität Berlin (FU)
Empire/post/colonial/18C/19C/affect/queer & gender stds/maritime fictions/lit&Economics/book stds
Website: https://tinyurl.com/bddnpakt
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com Rare Book #Librarian, #editor, bereaved parent of Caitlin. 12x Hugo Award winner. bi/pan/queer. Head @illinoisrbml.bsky.social; Verity podcast; ex-Uncanny Mag. #aerialist. My opinions. she/her. #DoctorWho New book: https://alastore.ala.org/infiniteloop
Jemma Walton @jemmawalton1.bsky.social Birkbeck PhD student interested in surrogacy memoirs/ medical humanities; English teacher. I like books...
Zagria @zagria.bsky.social author of the Gender Variance Who's Who
Claudia Sterbini @claudiasterbini.bsky.social 'don't cope well with social media' - Socrates
Asexuality in fin de siècle literature, also interested in sexology, and medhumy stuff
@SGSAH @Edinburghuni
David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social Prof of Victorian Lit @Keele University and Dir of Institute of Social Inclusion. Loves doing cultural stuff in Stoke-on-Trent and beyond
Matthew Grant @mgrnt.bsky.social Historian - University of Essex (currently Head of School, Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies)
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails 🐌
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social Psychologist interested in community, health, & wellbeing (esp. among gay & bi men) and social justice for all.
Lecturer at University of Galway.
Board member for the National LGBT Federation. Views my own.
He/Him.
Kasia Tee @kasiatee.bsky.social Historian.
Museums, design, war, space, time, etc.
Co-host, Cursed Objects podcast
Director, https://bsky.app/profile/museumsbirkbeck.bsky.social 
The British Lichen Society @britishlichensociety.org.uk 
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
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer 
Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Marty Davies @smartypantsmarty.com Writer, artist, campaigner & creative cultural strategist.
Founder @transhistoryweek.com
Founder smartypantsmarty.com
Columnist for Campaign.
Big sister to Rae ♥️🦦
Requests pr@smartypantsmarty.com
www.patreon.com/martydavies
she/they
Polly Hember @pollyhember.bsky.social Researching modernism, queer networks, literature and silent cinema 📚🎞️ writing about the POOL group 🌊 teaching film and poetry. She/her.
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
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
christopher griffin @chris-brighton.bsky.social early career researcher working in trans studies, decolonial studies, feminist epistemologies, radical politics, and neurodiversity studies. big fan of Wynter and Derrida. they/them.
Sam Feder 🐳 @samfeder.bsky.social
Www.samfederfilms.com
Brangwen Stone @brangwenstone.bsky.social Academic at USyd. Austrian, German & Swiss Literature, Theatre & Film.
Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history
José Manuel Santillana Blanco @santillanajm.bsky.social Assistant Professor in American Studies at UC Davis | Environmental Justice | Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Feminist Studies | Queer and Trans Studies. More: https://linktr.ee/jmsantillanablanco
Carolyn Jackson @carolynjackson.bsky.social Professor of Gender and Education at Lancaster University, UK. Works on gender-related violence in higher education, 'lad culture', gender and learner identities, fear in education. 
Ali Bhagat @alibhagat.bsky.social Assistant Prof at SFU, School of Public Policy
Editor, Review of International Political Economy
Migration and Refugee Policy
Race, Sexuality, Political Economy
🏳️🌈
Katie da Cunha Lewin @kdclewin.bsky.social Writing + teaching. The Writer's Room OUT NOW; new project on professionalism and amateurism. Co-editor of @c21literature.bsky.social
Rep @charlotteseymour.bsky.social. kdclewin.com
Sex & Sexualities Journal @sexandsexualities.bsky.social Official journal of the American Sociological Association. Sex & Sexualities in a refereed online journal featuring intersectional, interdisciplinary, transnational, and critical scholarship
What The Trans?! 🏳️⚧️ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
WhatTheTrans.com
Navigation: #Podcast #Article #Opinion #Analysis #Interview #LiveReport #Protest #Action #Fundraiser #Research #Photography #UK #US #Japan #World
Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social A humanities project about liminal waterscapes in Europe, producing digital and museum resources to retrieve submerged narratives of resistance.
#BlueHumanities #BlueSocialSciences #EnvironmentalHumanities #EcoCriticism #CoastalHistory #DigitalHumanties
Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com ARC DECRA Fellow at Adelaide University researching sexuality education for queer and trans youth. Otherwise posting about gaming, sport and vegan food. https://barrieshannon.com
Dr Deirdre Foley @drdeefoley.bsky.social Research Ireland Pathway fellow, Trinity College Dublin.
Researching pregnancy and maternity care in twentieth-century Ireland.
Membership Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland.
Previously: DCU, UCC, Oxford.
she/her
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
beef fizz @beeffizz.bsky.social anachronistic recipe enthusiast. try the shrimp wiggle.
trans
she/her
bigots get blocked
header: picture of an old cookbook recipe for beef fizz. 2 cans condensed beef broth, 1 cup chilled ginger ale, 2 tablespoons lemon juice
pfp: a glass of beef fizz
Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social Historian: Mughal & colonial India and Hindustani music, FRAS FRHistS. Head of Music @ KCL. Musicians at risk 🇦🇫 Act justly, love mercy, walk humbly (work in progress). Whippet owner. Immigrant. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/katherine-butler-schofield
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Shorelarking @shorelarking.bsky.social Aka hpsvanessa - here for beachcombing and drift archaeology. Find me as @shorelarking on insta. 🏳️⚧️
Heidi Lu Liedke @heidilulie.bsky.social Professor of English literature @goetheuni.bsky.social *former @humboldt-foundation.de
Postdoc @QMULSLLF *Victorianist* 21st c 🎭 & livecasting * co-editor of Studies in Travel Writing*🌈
https://www.uni-frankfurt.de/136371678/Heidi_Liedk
Kassandra Hammel @kassandrahammel.bsky.social historian @ uni tübingen. phd on the history of feminism & sexuality in second wave feminist magazines. DIY archivist.
Katharina Herold-Zanker @jkhhz.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Literature and Drama
@durham_uni
/ Decadence and Orientalism
@OUPAcademic
/ Feminism and Drama 🎭
Views my own.
Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social Fighting for human rights across UK & the world 🌍 follow for activism & news. Amnesty UK (Charitable Trust & Section).
http://amnesty.org.uk/
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
James Kennaway @jgkennaway.bsky.social Historian of medicine etc. at the University of Groningen.
OutHistory @outhistory.bsky.social Queering history in every imaginable way!
linktr.ee/outhistory
Stephan Ehrig @herrehrig.bsky.social Glasgow Germanist working on remediations of architecture in film and literature | DEFA | Kleist | Urban Humanities | East(ern) Germany | Transnationalism | Formerly Dublin, Durham, Bristol, Leipzig | he/him
Elizabeth Stephens @elizabethstephens.bsky.social Researching cultural histories and theories of the body, University of Queensland. Convenor Australasian Health and Medical Humanities.
Bob Eaglestone @bobeaglestone.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary Literature and Thought at Royal Holloway, University of London. Writing a book about Arendt and another about literature and politics in the UK.
Dickon Edwards @dickon-edwards.bsky.social Writer-dandy. PhD. St Leonards-on-Sea. dickonedwards.substack.com
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) 🌈
Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social Researching lost time, Manchester UK 🏳️⚧️
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
USS Briefs @ussbriefs.bsky.social We founded our "University Staff & Students" collective during 2018's #USSstrike | Dreaming of another kind of university | RTs ≠ endorsements | 🇵🇸
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Louise Welsh @louisewelsh00.bsky.social Writer, The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy, To the Dogs & more. Prof Creative Writing, Glasgow University. Hon Prez Scottish PEN. Podcast Who Owns the Clyde. Librettist Anthropocene. Theatre, movies, cats, life 🏳️🌈
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her