Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social historian | pet shop boys fanatic | australian in germany | very bisexual | constantly podcasting | "oh, dr. bodie!" per jordan gray | they/them | latest book: “the pet shop boys and the political”
Dr Amy Fuller @amyfuller.bsky.social She/her | Historian of colonial Mexico: Sor Juana; La Llorona; narratives of conquest/conversion | Hosts the Challenging Histories podcast
Trans inclusive feminist | Free Palestine 🍉
Called William H Prescott a dirty old man & Cortés a sociopath on the BBC
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Cheryl Morgan @cherylmorgan.bsky.social Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
Waterstones Gower Street @gowerst-books.bsky.social Europe's biggest new & secondhand bookshop, home to Gower Records, Art Supplies Shop, Fillongley Café and an award-winning events programme. London's local bookshop.
English Civil War @englishcivilwar.bsky.social We're passionate about the English Civil Wars and 17th Century history! We're also reenactors - step into history and have an incredible weekend for just £10! www.earlofmanchesters.co.uk
Dr Charlotte Parsonson-Young @charlie-l-y.bsky.social Early modern & genealogy tutor at Conted Oxford. Lecturer at Wake Forest Uni (London campus). Writing on English Civil War sequestration, & John Bradshawe. Vice-Chair of @Cromwellorg.bsky.social. Reviews Editor of @MidlandHistory.bsky.social.
HistoryExtra @historyextra.bsky.social Posts from HistoryExtra, Britain’s bestselling history magazine and award-winning podcast.
www.historyextra.com
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, Barbara Cartland fan
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
Jasmine Elmer @jasmineelmer.bsky.social 📖 Author | Goddess with a Thousand Faces & Slay (2026)
🌙 Myth, history, magic & the feminine reimagined
🔥 Feminist rants likely
Lucy Jane Santos @lucyjanesantos.bsky.social Writer, presenter and consultant
researching the unexpected places where science, culture and consumerism meet. Nobody’s Perfect: The Making of Some Like It Hot (Aug 2026)
https://linktr.ee/lucyjanesantos_
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
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social Assyriologist at Wolfson College (Oxford), writer plagued by self-doubt, lover of dead languages. I think we should all be doing what we can to save the planet.
My book 😎 https://lnk.to/BetweenTwoRivers
Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social Lecturer in the Heritage of the Middle East at the University of Leicester. Researching ancient Mesopotamia. Playwright, poet, and Babylonian liver diviner.
https://www.selenawisnom.com
https://leicester.academia.edu/SelenaWisnom
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Historian of science, art, & ideas 🗃
Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Author: HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY
www.surekhadavies.org
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Speaker bureau: Chartwell Speakers
Dr Mai Musié (ሙሴ) @drmaimusie.bsky.social Ancient Historian | Senior Manager @NCACE | Co-founder @ClassicsinComm @UniofOxford |Trustee @TheRomanSoc @AoD
Agent:www.hkmanagement.co.uk
Website: https://www.drmaimusie.com
Leah Redmond Chang @leahredmondchang.bsky.social Writer * Historian * Author of Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power (Bloomsbury; FSG, 2023). She/Her leahredmondchang.com
Victoria Nunn @viva-victoria.bsky.social North East mum of 5 | ADHD, Autism, BPD, Depression, C-PTSD | PhD Student: VCSE Contribution to Health Research | Sr Research Assistant | Lived Experience Consultant | Project Coordinator/Evaluator | Charity Comms | Film, Running, History, True Crime
Jen Warren @drjenpaddles.bsky.social Currently trying to navigate life after advanced cancer diagnosis. Grateful for each extra day
Precancer: I was Anaesthetist, Intensivist & paracanoist! Co-chair Disabled Doctors Network 2021#ShePaddlesAmbassador @GLLfoundation supported athlete
Shafi Musaddique @shafimusaddique.bsky.social Journalist covering minorities in Europe. The Guardian, Al Jazeera, iPaper etc.
Formerly of BBC World Service, the Economist, Euronews and more.
🖊️ Human rights
💭 Decolonisation
📚 History, art and literature nerd. Hosting @HistFest
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social Historian. Author. On your TV/Radio.
**Victoria’s Secret: The Private Passion of a Queen OUT NOW**
Expert: Suffragette Terrorism, Music Hall, 19thC Sex + Culture, Queen Victoria & John Brown.
www.fernriddell.com
https://lnk.to/victoriassecretbook
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Nathen Amin ✒️📚 @nathenamin.bsky.social Fellow of the Royal Historical Society • HWA Book judge • Son of Prophecy: The Rise of Henry Tudor https://amzn.to/4e499k9 • A Chronicle of Dragon & Cats https://bit.ly/48klsaQ • Events & Talks https://linktr.ee/nathenamin • Welsh-Kashmiri
Raksha Dave @rakshadigs.bsky.social 🏺Hon.Prof, Archaeologist, Broadcaster, Award winning Author #Booksky 📕.
BAFTA and Equity member 🎥
President Council for British Archaeology
Research Affiliate @Pitt_Rivers
Agent: http://www.miradormanagement.co.uk
Insta: @raksha_digs
All views my own!
Willy Willy Harry Stee Pod @wwhspodcast.bsky.social A weekly podcast on the history of England - presented by Charlie Higson @charliehigson.bsky.social and his friendly experts. Series 3 out now! 👇
🎧 https://podfollow.com/willy-willy-harry-stee
Alison Atkin @alisonatkin.bsky.social Artist. Osteoarchaeologist. Canadian. Doing creative things with heritage in the NW (UK). Multi-passionate person. Can expect knitting, gardening, ttrpg, nerdery. Aprendiendo español! she/her
Hannah Greig @hannahgreig.bsky.social Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist.
📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron
📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social Research Associate Teaching Indigenous Histories and Perspectives in Schools @ Uni of Sheffield | Doctorate, global goods at c17th Lauderdale-era Ham House | Global/Atlantic world histories of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | Former Teacher |
Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor.
Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes. Out October 20.
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR
🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.