Eirnin @eirnin.bsky.social PhDing: Vikings and white supremacy, IHR London | trans dykefag | they/them
Poppy Watson @p-watson.bsky.social 
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
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Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
Jochen Hung @jochenhung.bsky.social Associate Professor of Cultural History at Utrecht University, the Netherlands
https://www.uu.nl/staff/JBHung
Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
Karl Ittmann @kittmann.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the British Empire.
Author of Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex 1896-1945 published by Oxford University Press June 2025.
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Houston.
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
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class and Coal Country. Should be running or writing.
Tom Cryer @thomascryer.bsky.social Lecturer in US History @ Oxford | host @NewBooksNetwork | Comms @ HistoryLab+ | Aldrich Fellow @ HistoryofEducationSociety
Historian of education, ideas, and memory in 20th-C America. Mostly RT's!
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
HigherJobz @higherjobz.bsky.social 🏺 Archaeology, Human Evolution, Climate Science & Palaeoscience Research | 🌍 Culture, Environment & Deep-Time Studies | 🎓 Global PhD Programmes, Postdoctoral Fellowships & Faculty Positions | Scholarships, Research Grants & Academic Opportunities Worldwide
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.
Women of 1000 || Meg Hyland @womenof1000.bsky.social Art & research project illustrating the lives of women from around the world 1000 years ago: https://womenof1000ad.weebly.com/
PhD student at Edinburgh Uni in Celtic & Scottish Studies, researching herring gutters & their music.
she/her, disabled 🏳️🌈
Sarah Wren @sarahwren.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality in the Holocaust.
PhD researcher at Northumbria University.
Oral history, genocide studies, feminism, history of gender and sexuality, queer history.
Partnership of Historic Bostons @historicbostons.bsky.social All volunteer nonprofit bringing accessible high quality free and low-cost public history to people in Boston, MA and globally since 1999. Visit our web site to learn more, or to register for our events: https://historicbostons.org/whoweare
Australian Academy of the Humanities @humanitiesau.bsky.social We're the national voice for cultural, creative & ethical thinking and one of Australia's five Learned Academies. We promote the study and application of the humanities. Posts by Comms team. Re-posts not endorsements.
www.humanities.org.au
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)
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland @araukie.bsky.social The membership body for recordkeeping professionals in the UK & Ireland.
Posts are by Deborah Mason, Head of Communications for ARA. You can reach her on deborah.mason@archives.org.uk (quicker than a DM).
Find our more about ARA here www.archives.org.uk
UK-Ireland DH Association @ukiedh.bsky.social The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association - working together to build a collaborative vision for the #DH field.
On Mastodon: @uk_ie_dh@hcommons.social
Association for Young Historical Demographers @ayhdemographers.bsky.social The goal of the Association for Young Historical Demographers is to bring together early career scholars who investigate historical demographic processes.
Visit our website for more information: https://www.younghistoricaldemographers.com/
Vicky Garnett, PhD @snappyhapper.bsky.social Here to talk #TheArchers, hiking, Digital Humanities, Linguistics if I'm feeling brave, and maybe show off some photography. Late diagnosed ADHD, so I should probably be doing something else right now...
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social The British Association for Romantic Studies supports the study of #c18th and #c19th literature and culture.
https://www.bars.ac.uk/main/
Perp Culture @perpculture.bsky.social Are you a ‘true crime’ fiction buff? But uneasy about the genre & what it can do? │ Perp Culture, a mixed format podcast from @srwride.bsky.social, explores the history & ethics of adapting historical crime cases │ perpculture.co.uk
H-Net Job Guide @h-net-job-guide.bsky.social The H-Net Job Guide is proud to be one of the leading sources of position announcements in the fields of the Humanities and Social Sciences • https://www.h-net.org/jobs/home.php 
Patrick Finney @finneypb.bsky.social FPVC @ Aberystwyth University; cultural memory of war; editor Rethinking History; running; husband and dad
Wanda Opalińska @wandaopalinska.bsky.social Writer. Actress. Potterer. https://www.berlinassociates.com/clients/wanda-opalinska/
https://engersportelli.com/
@onewingedengels.bsky.social @onewingedengels.bsky.social weird / horror / indie games
Gaynor Beesley @renfieldscat.bsky.social PhD researcher. English civil war religious pamphlet culture @ University of Wolverhampton
KIM F-M @kimf-m.bsky.social 💙 We are NOT going back! 💙
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Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Nev @alphukit.bsky.social Outdoors and all things nature type of guy.
I love camping, hiking, foraging and travelling anywhere, anytime.
nicholascelt.bsky.social @nicholascelt.bsky.social Storyteller 🎬 Bringing the epic fantasy saga of Nick Celt to life. Every world, every battle, created with Technology. Follow the adventure ⚔️
The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social The Portico Library is Manchester’s original 19th-century home of literature and learning. Uncovering, imagining, and sharing new histories together.
HSTM Network Ireland #HSTM @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network Ireland fosters research, teaching & engagement in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HSTM #MedHums #Science #Tech #Medicine #Health #Speirgorm Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
The Scottish Record Society @scotrecsoc.bsky.social The Scottish Record Society is one of Scotland’s oldest historical societies, and is dedicated to publishing calendars, indexes and texts of historical records.
Padhraig Higgins @phillypaddy.bsky.social Historian, eighteenth-century Ireland. Cycles around Philadelphia and New Jersey.
Telizmary Pinales Roussel @telizmarypr.bsky.social 🎓 MBA HR | 🎓 B.Sc. BA Mgmt | Journeying through UK, France, Italy, Greece & Egypt—immersed in history, art, theater & journals of timeless beauty
Rowie Azada-Palacios (Rowena) @rowsterr.bsky.social Philosopher of education | Thinking and writing about decoloniality, reparation, and justice in relation to education | London, Edinburgh & Manila | 名不正，則言不順
Ruth Slatter @ruthslatter.bsky.social Material & participatory approaches to everyday histories of faith | Lecturer in Historic Environment at @ihr.bsky.social | Member of @chppc.bsky.social | Co-General Editor @vch-home.bsky.social | https://www.history.ac.uk/people/ruth-slatter
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
George Higgins @handle.invalid Modern and environmental history | PhD in C20th mountaineering in Eryri @ Bangor Uni | Wales regional ambassador for IHR HistoryLab+
Dr Lauren Theweneti @laurentheweneti.bsky.social First World War Historian | research focuses on Women, Conflict and Class in First World War Leeds | Regional Ambassador HL+
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Maxine Beuret @maxinebeuret.bsky.social Creative Cultural Historian, Academic, Artist, videographer https://maxinebeuret.com and Oral Historian https://www.ohs.org.uk/creative/
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
Duncan Hamilton @dnhamilton.bsky.social University of Manchester PGR researching radical 19thC literature and politics | National Co-operative Archive volunteer | IHR History Lab+ ambassador (North West England)
History at Queen's University Belfast @qubhistory.bsky.social History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under ‘Lists’. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Dr Jesús Sanjurjo @jesussanjurjo.bsky.social Lecturer in Atlantic World History at the University of Strathclyde | Councillor of the Royal Historical Society | LG(B)TQ+ | Spanish & Brit(ish) | he/him | theprisonblueprint.com
GlosBio @glosbio.bsky.social Researcher
INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Eilidh Wilson @eilidhwilson.bsky.social Early Modern Scottish historian with a focus on women’s sexuality - all the juicy stuff
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social • Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for almost 30 years
• Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850
• Home to the interdisciplinary MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York, since 1994
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/
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social OHNI is an organisation with charitable status that aims to promote oral history in Ireland and to provide a network and training for oral historians.
International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social and online. Communities, 5-8 July 2027.
https://www.imc.leeds.ac.uk
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Brian @halma.bsky.social History, cities and urbanism, exploring, Nationals, Panthers, Hurricanes, Hornets
Views are my own
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Ann Foster @vulgarhistory.bsky.social Podcast host: Vulgar History, NeferTV; Author of Rebel of the Regency (2026), The Real Lady Macbeth (coming in 2028)
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social That one medieval historian you've heard of. Co-host We're Not So Different and Gone Medieval podcasts. Author of The Once and Future Sex. (Out now!) George Michael stan. Cutie.
https://eleanorjanega.com/
The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social We explore the history of the English countryside and its people. Chaotic Good.
https://merl.reading.ac.uk/
Sarah E. Holland, PhD @mar-archaeo.bsky.social Mostly maritime archaeology, splash of maritime history, occasionally climate heritage, & some ocean science. Searching for interesting and engaging channels into watery worlds.
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(professional side of @sarahelektra.bsky.social)
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
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