BBC Radio 5 Live @bbc5live.bsky.social The voice of the UK 🎙️Listen on the free @BBCSounds app🎧
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
The FootPol Podcast @footpolpodcast.bsky.social The FootPol Podcast: Where Football Meets Politics.
Episodes out every other Monday on all podcast platforms. We also link here!
Hosted by Dr Guy Burton and Dr Francesco Belcastro,
https://bsky.app/profile/guyburton.net and @drfrancescobelc.bsky.social
Gareth Oakland 🇫🇷🏏🏉 @goakl.bsky.social 19th Century Vendéen memorials. Former PwC partner. Treasurer at the Society for the Study of French History. Trustee at Institute of Historical Research. Trustee at NHSRF. Active travel campaigner. Cricket, cycling, rugby à XV. France and England.
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
Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Prof of Public Engagement in Science, Uni of Birmingham; anatomist, author, broadcaster; vice President of Humanists UK. All views my own.
Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social Associate Professor of Management at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Interested in politics, policy, and human decency. 
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Barnet Hartston @barnethartston.bsky.social Historian @ Eckerd College in Florida; 19/20th Cent. Germany, including legal history and history of sport.
Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social Writer, editor and consulting historian - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Doctor Who Magazine - and now former Alzheimer's carer. Ex-History of Parliament, also liable to write about North-East England and Oxford as well as television.
Alex Levine @alexmaxlevine.bsky.social PhD candidate researching 20th-century European internationalisms at UCLA
https://history.ucla.edu/person/alex-levine/
Sterling Ladies FC ⚽️ DAGENHAM INVINCIBLES @dagenhaminvince.bsky.social Grandson of Legend Lizzy Ashcroft - St Helens FC + Dick Kerr Ladies FC 1921-35
⚽️ FOOTBALL HISTORIAN ⚽️
💜 @DagenhamInvincibles 💜 TikTok 💜
Natalia Mehlman Petrzela @nataliapetrzela.bsky.social Prof of History at The New School | Author, FIT NATION (2023) + CLASSROOM WARS (2015) | Last Pod: EXTREME for BBC | Words: WSJ, MS NOW, NYT, CHE, etc | Fellow, Carnegie Corp/NEH Public Scholar | Mom | NYC
Irish Historical Society @irishhistsoc.bsky.social https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social Professor of European History at De Montfort University
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/panikos-panayi/panikos-panayi.aspx
Dr Katie Taylor @drkatietaylor.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - Nottingham Trent University.
Researching women's involvement in American football and student transitions into HE.
Co-Chair - NTU TILT Student Transitions and Social Mobility group.
Vice Chair - British Society of Sports History.
Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies NTU @crhhms.bsky.social The Centre for Research in History, Heritage and Memory Studies at Nottingham Trent University. Making the past meaningful in the present.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: https://subscribe.emailblaster.cloud/MjEyMjQ/122.html
Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood - a centre established in 2003 to promote research into the history of children, youth and childhood. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood
@redrosesrugby.bsky.social @redrosesrugby.bsky.social 
Row One @rowone.bsky.social Row One Brand is an American sports brand that offers fans over 22,000 historic sports prints in the Row One Art Gallery powered by Pictorem. https://rowonebrand.com
AFC Wimbledon @afcwimbledon1889.bsky.social The Dons 💛💙
Roland-Garros @rolandgarros.com Official Bluesky account of #RolandGarros | 18 May - 7 June, 2026
http://rolandgarros.com
Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social A mix of rare, unusual, spectacular, personal, and historic pictures from the earliest days of cricket to modern times
Redbridge Museum & Heritage Centre @redbridgemuseum.bsky.social Redbridge Museum explores the many different people, places & events which are part of the history of Redbridge.
Open Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 - 17:00
🔗 visionrcl.org.uk/museum
National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
The New Yorker @newyorker.com Unparalleled reporting and commentary on politics and culture, plus humor and cartoons, fiction and poetry. Get our Daily newsletter: http://nyer.cm/gtI6pVM
Follow The New Yorker’s writers and contributors: https://go.bsky.app/Gh5bFwS
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
Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social Historian/writer. Creator, @draftingthepast.bsky.social podcast. History of science PhD candidate at Princeton, based in KCMO. Working on a history of storm chasing.
https://draftingthepast.com/
http://kathrynbcarpenter.com/
Daniel J. Story, PhD 🚴🏻♂️🎙️🗺️ @danieljstory.bsky.social Digital Scholarship Librarian at UC Santa Cruz // Audio storyteller // History PhD // In my spare time I bike and dream about a #solarpunk future 🤙🏻 // He/him
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/
WG RumblePants @wgrumblepants.bsky.social Old Red Balls himself. Can’t bat, bowl or catch. Occasional IPad cricket artist. Proud Whinging Pom and member of Fender’s Tailenders
https://linktr.ee/WG_RumblePants #cricket
Somerset County Cricket Club @somersetccc.bsky.social Welcome to the official bluesky of Somerset CCC!
https://linktr.ee/Somersetcountycc?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=5119cf12-454d-42e9-a6cc-0b2dd65ccd03
Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social Historian at Swansea Uni. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of Sport in Wales.
Matt Pinsent @mattpinsent.bsky.social I’ve won four Olympic gold medals, fathered three children since and now watching them become adults. Oh and one dog.
Culture Jobs @culturejobs.bsky.social The job board for arts, heritage and museums. Visit CultureJobs.org for the latest opportunities.
V&A Dundee @vadundee.bsky.social We are Scotland’s design museum, designed for everyone.
Open daily, 10.00 – 17.00 ☺️
Libraries Connected @librariesconnected.org.uk We are an independent charity that supports, promotes and represents public libraries. Our work is driven and led by our membership, which includes almost every library service in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Crown Dependencies.
The Frank Soo Foundation @fsoofoundation.bsky.social Spreading Frank’s story, supporting East & South East Asians in football & building better communities. In memory of Frank Soo (1914-1991) Stoke City & England.
Journal of Sport History @journsporthist.bsky.social Promotes the study of historical, social, and cultural aspects of sports. Published by the University of Illinois Press and the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH): @nassh1972.bsky.social
Museums Worcestershire @museumsworcs.bsky.social Discover 3 fantastic museums:
🎨 Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum
🏰 County Museum at Hartlebury Castle
👑 The Commandery & 💫 Escape Room: Commandery Quest
https://linktr.ee/museumsworcestershire
Sheffield Museums @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social Six museums and historic sites across the city, creating life-shaping, eye-opening, joy-filled memories with you ✨
ARA SAM @araarchmus.bsky.social Archives & Records Association Special Interest Group providing professional support, guidance & training for those working in #Archives & #Museums.
Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham @theironroom.bsky.social Preserving & sharing 800 years of Birmingham's history at the Library of Birmingham.
For enquiries, please email archives.heritage@birmingham.gov.uk
Follow our blog @ www.theironroom.wordpress.com
More info @ birmingham.gov.uk/archives
Kent Archives @kentarchives.bsky.social A nationally accredited archive repository for Kent, established in 1933 and based in Maidstone. Get involved and keep up-to-date with the latest news and events from our service.
This account is monitored from Monday to Friday, 8:30am - 5pm.
Barnsley Museums & Heritage Trust @barnsleymht.bsky.social Barnsley Museums and Heritage Trust is a charitable trust set up to support the future of Barnsley Museums. Donate online or on your next museum visit.
Sonia Llewellyn @soniallewellyn.bsky.social Librarian at the Devon and Exeter Institution. Interested in libraries, archives, special collections, books, history.
Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social Historian & author of seven books on US history including WHY THE NEW DEAL MATTERS and WINTER WAR: HOOVER, ROOSEVELT, AND THE FIRST CLASH OVER THE NEW DEAL. Florida man. Keep Bluesky weird.
http://ericrauchway.com
pfp by Daniel Mackie
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 ~
Ospreys Rugby @ospreysofficial.bsky.social Wales’ most successful professional rugby team 🖤 | 4x league Champions in the BKTURC 🏆 | Playing from St Helen's in the 26/27 season 🏟️
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
Arts Council England @artscouncilengland.bsky.social Your national development agency for creativity and culture
• Awarding @dcmsgovuk & @tnluk funds
• Got a question? ☎️ artscouncil.org.uk/contact
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
HistFest @histfest.bsky.social The best history events and courses all year round.
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.
Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social Sociologist at Loughborough University researching sport, environmental sustainability, antiracism & refugees. Member of @fanseurope & @britsoci
Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobamabooks.com
Post Sports @postsports.bsky.social All things sports from The Washington Post.
Read more coverage here: washingtonpost.com/sports
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 🧑💻
Max Portman @whuhistorian.bsky.social West Ham historian & PhD candidate.
@bssh.bsky.social Membership Sec.
@sportinhistorypod.bsky.social & thewesthamsyndrome.bsky.social Host.
Co-Convenor of Sports & Leisure History Seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
@footycon.bsky.social co-organiser
He/Him.
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
Bayfirth Research CIC @bayfirth.bsky.social Research in sport, voluntary sector organisations and volunteers.
Outside Write (Chris Lee) ⚽️ @outsidewrite.co.uk The curious fan’s football Substack and podcast by Chris Lee, author of 📕 Origin Stories (2021), 📘 The Defiant (2022), and 📗 Shades of Green (2025). DM to commission me
Groundhopping and football culture and history.
More 👉 https://linktr.ee/outsidewrite
James Mark @jamesamark.bsky.social Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022)
https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
Katie Parker @kparkerhistorian.bsky.social Cartographic Collections Manager at the RGS-IBG. Teach history of London architecture at NYU London. Cultural historian interested in books, maps, museums, exploration, and the early modern maritime world, esp. the Pacific.
Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social Director of Policy, Research, Impact, TrussellTrust Trustee NatCen. Former JRF & Pro Bono Economics. Author: Want (Giants: A New Beveridge Report) http://amzn.eu/d/hk1ojO6
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
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/
History of Advertising Trust @historyofads.bsky.social The History of Advertising Trust - the largest archive of UK advertising in the world. Search our catalogue: http://bit.ly/2xQLOAN
University of Brighton Design Archives @designarchives.bsky.social Award-winning archive of British & international industrial & communication design
designarchives@brighton.ac.uk
https://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesignarchives/
https://linktr.ee/design_archives
International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) @sportcies.bsky.social Since its foundation in 1995, in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, CIES has distinguished itself as a pioneer in sports knowledge, global networks and forward-thinking training : Research & Education. Creating an impact on the way sport is managed worldwide.
Admiral Sports @admiral.co Founded in 1914 #wornbychampions FIND OUT MORE: https://linkin.bio/admiral
admiralsports.com
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
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 \\
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
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
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk We believe that art history inspires people to think differently and see differently. Find out more about our vision, mission and work:
www.forarthistory.org.uk
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social The National Humanities Alliance is a coalition of organizations that advocates for the value of the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill.
Learn more at www.nhalliance.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
Oxford Bibliographical Society @obs1922.bsky.social Founded 104 years ago, the OBS celebrates the collection, care, and enjoyment of libraries, books, and archives of all sizes📚
Oxford, England
oxbibsoc.wordpress.com
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.
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
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
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Lizzie Howard @lizzieannehoward.bsky.social 'Caffeine in human form'. Acquisitions Editor: Media & Communication Studies at Peter Lang. Ph.D. in the history of crime. Oxford/Uppsala/Cardiff/East Anglia.
Historic Southampton @historicalsoton.bsky.social I’m Russell and local history is my hobby.
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Derbyshire Record Office @derbyshiredro.bsky.social Free access to 900 years of history - Derbyshire, Britain and beyond: books, archives, maps, prints and photographs. Explore online or visit us in Matlock.
Website: www.derbyshire.gov.uk/recordoffice
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
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
History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social H&T is an international journal devoted to the theory of history and philosophy of history. Est. 1960, located
at Wesleyan University, published by Wiley.
Our website: https://historyandtheory.org/