Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social The British Association for Local History is the national charity which promotes local history and serving local historians throughout the UK #WeAreLocalHistory
Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Julie Warren @vathenauk.bsky.social Essex-dwelling bibliophile, tyrophile, oenophile & philewordsphile. Author of 'It's All in the Mind: The Life and Legacy of Larry Stephens'.
John Ayshford @johnayshford.bsky.social History PhD student at the University of Manchester researching John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, and republican political thought.
The Simons of Manchester (2024)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176387/
Dr Alicia Colson @aliciacolson.bsky.social Ethnohistorian & Archaeologist. Cofounder & Co-Editor of Exploration Revealed (https://ses-explore.org/about-exploration-revealed/); Affiliated Research Fellow, U of Central Lancashire; Cofounder of Fractal-AI Substack: https://aliciajmcolson.substack.com
Amy Solomons @amyjsolomons.bsky.social Book & Library Historian | Currently researching female readers, family libraries in c. long 18th c. | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online Intern 2026 | Project Officer for National Literacy Trust - views my own
Nynzi @nynzi.bsky.social International trade | politics | art | history | historical fashion | The Archers - A LOT - you’ve been warned.
Mark Jones @mark18681918.bsky.social PhD student @cardiffuni.bsky.social/Prifysgol Caerdyd. Critical historian researching regimental identity, organisational culture & learning processes within the British Army during the Cold War.
https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/research-staff/jonesma19
Heather Craddock @hcraddock.bsky.social Researcher and environmental historian
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
Dr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | FRHistS | palaeography & editing | convenor @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social | neurodivergent | co-chair UCU Anticasualisation Committee | @ucucommons.org | https://joanneedge.co.uk | agent: @knifewitch.bsky.social
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
All Things Tudors @allthingstudors.bsky.social Kerri
Plantagenet • Tudor • Stuart History
People, power & stories behind the portraits
History brought back to life
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
The Folklore of Warwickshire @warksfolklore.bsky.social Exploring the folklore and folk life of Warwickshire. I can also be found at @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social
Hilary R Sparkes @hilaryrsparkes.bsky.social Independent scholar and writer: Caribbean religious history, anthropology, and things folkloric. Fan of The Byrds and the gothic. Posts about Warwickshire folklore at @warksfolklore.bsky.social
AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives - We are professional researchers supporting the highest standards in family history and genealogy. www.agra.org.uk
Dr Sarah-Louise Miller @sarahloumiller.bsky.social Author, Historian, Presenter, Broadcaster, Lecturer in War Studies, King’s College London
Website: https://www.sarah-louisemiller.com/
Dr Anita Sethi 🍃📚 @anitasethi.bsky.social writer, journalist & broadcaster 📝
Author, I BELONG HERE (“a thing of beauty” - Sunday Times). Winner, Books Are My Bag Award, nominated Wainwright 🏆for Nature Writing, Great Outdoors Award, RSL Ondaatje.
Mancunian 🐝
anitasethi.com
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
Rebecca WB @rwb22.bsky.social she/her. I'm into sewing, fashion, costuming, museum design & curation, history, sci-fi/fantasy, film, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, space, dinosaurs, and travel. I don't auto-followback. Always punch Nazis, healthcare is a right, eat the rich.
Karl Hector @karlhector.bsky.social History and Politics teacher in Sussex, just starting out on an awfully big adventure in academia. Welsh vegan, paid up member of the Brighton Taffia.
Kate Garner @kategarnermusic.bsky.social Singer songwriter pianist vintage songs. Daughter of Chas from Chas & Dave
Darren McLean @darrenmcleanuk.bsky.social Building conservation university teacher and practitioner.
Historic building materials, construction techniques, and architecture.
Studying Roman construction and writing a book on Historic Floors
UK/Italy
Lindsay @linziw.bsky.social History - Military and Garden. Especially all things 17th Century. Often found on a battlefield. Bit of a photographer. Oh and Leeds United.
No bio … don’t expect a follow.
margaret beaufort fan @tudorhistetc.bsky.social linktree: https://linktr.ee/margaretbeaufortfanclub
instagram: margaretbeaufortfanclub
history B.A. • boston red sox • medieval & early modern
Katie Milliken @katie1973.bsky.social Historian of law, lawyers and modern Britain.
South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social Professor of French Studies, working on the culture of French Revolution and Napoleonic period. Committed to supporting the learning of languages in schools & universities and to public engagement.
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.
Lenny Hodges @lrhodges.bsky.social Historian of the early modern world. Postdoc at Durham. Associate Editor for French History. Also pottery.
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
Naomi Rendina @naomirendina.bsky.social PhD from @cwru. Historian of Medicine, Modern US, and birth. Writing on natural birth and the use of induction drugs. Posts are my own.
Abigail Tan @symmetr1cgroup.bsky.social Working mainly on Achaemenid history and the Babylonian Long Sixth Century. I think carving text in stone so it lasts thousands of years is cool. Also Cambridge grad, ancient language enthusiast, and semiretired quizzer. https://ahcmt2.user.srcf.net/
Will Barber Taylor @willbarbertaylor.bsky.social Host @debatedpodcast.bsky.social
Joanne Genealogy @joannegenealogy.bsky.social MSc Genealogy, Professional Genealogist, Business Mentor. Staffordshire. PhD Researcher: 19c Women in the Temperance Movement. @temperancehistory.bsky.social
Uttara @uttara.bsky.social Historian.
https://www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/people/uttara-shahani#:~:text=Uttara%20Shahani%20is%20a%20historian,Empire%2C%20migration%2C%20and%20refugees.
Amanda @amandastafford.bsky.social Accidental academic - underground newspapers, movies, yoga, all too infrequent writing, plants. 🌱 militant FE lecturer & PGR in US History at the University of Leeds. Green Menace.
Dr C Weissenberg @drcweissenberg.bsky.social Research: Micro archive of Werner Weissenberg.
Designer & editor: the Kitchener Camp Project & the Leave to Land exhibition
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/24/kitchener-camp-sandwich-kent-german-jews-haven
Www.fromnumberstonames.com
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Andy Mitchell @andymitchellmedia.bsky.social Scottish football historian. Edinburgh. www.scottishsporthistory.com
LichfieldLore @lichfieldlore.bsky.social Lover of curiosities, legends & languages. Searching for stories in Staffordshire & beyond. The weird one from @lichdiscovered. Website: lichfieldlore.co.uk
Susan Resnik-Hanson @chandeliergirl.bsky.social Classic Literature, history, and 19th century enthusiast 🌹| English - German translator and writer
Katie - The Creative Historian @creativehistorian.bsky.social Tea addict. History blogger for my sins. QPR fan for my bigger sins. Selling geeky history stuff. Author of 30 Women in History. She/Her.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.
Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Mohamed Elnakep @mohamedelnakep.bsky.social
lecture of Islamic history, Mansoura University. PhD in Imāmī Shīʿīs at Universität (Göttingen, Hamburg). Member of the German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO).
Dr Adele (Del) Sykes @dralrs.bsky.social Medievalist. Talks a lot (& occasionally writes) about urban social politics & documentary culture. Does stuff with Historic Towns Trust, English Heritage & Institute of Historical Research. Labrador-mum. Whacky-witch-granny. Gin-lover. On the run from Tw…
Chris Kempshall @chriskempshall.bsky.social Historian & Author on #FWW allied relations, historical games studies, & #StarWars. Rep'd Justin Nash of Kate Nash Literary Agency. Consulting partner @historystudiola.bsky.social. He/him
https://linktr.ee/chriskempshall
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/
The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social “Breaking Rommel” is now available for purchase.
“That's an impressive array of sources, but what are your credentials?"
Long-running research project on the desert war 1940-43, with a specific focus on Operation CRUSADER.
www.rommelsriposte.com
Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social Author of ‘Borderlines’ (Hodder, 2024) and previously Reggie Maudling, John Major. Psephologist, cat ‘owner’, flâneur. Against cruelty, which used to be a consensus position. https://www.hodder.co.uk/titles/lewis-baston/borderlines/9781399723763/
Metropolitan Police Museum and Crime Museum @mpsheritage.bsky.social Metropolitan Police lives and stories 1829-now.
Open to researchers and visitors by appointment.
Like/repost/follow≠endorsement
No bio or posts, no follow back.
https://t.co/f5xOlVyLoc
Karen Waring @karenwaring1.bsky.social Researcher. Visiting Research Fellow at Bath Spa University. Avid reader of the Stationers' Registers, with more than a passing interest in book history, Early Modern literature & culture, and literary theory
Bryn Hammond @brynleyh.bsky.social FRHistS. Historian of the First World War, WW1, ‘the Great War’. Principal Curator with principles at l'ancien asile. Maps landed in my lap. Evertonian. Cricket lover. Father…more when I think of it.
All views here are mine, but I’m prepared to share them.
Manon C Williams @manoncwilliams.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
MargaretR @margr.bsky.social Bibliophile. Yorkshire to the core.
Addicted to family, local and military history research.
Always learning.
JamesHobson @jameshobson.bsky.social History, politics, animal welfare and vegetarianism. Liverpool FC and the European Union.
Author of eight books on radical Britain 1600-1900
Little Bowden, Market Harborough.
Jillianne Hamilton @jilly.ca Author of Delightful Historical Romance + Fiction: https://jilly.ca/historical
bookworm • lover of history, crafts, costume dramas + bad jokes • smug millennial
she/her 🇨🇦 Epekwitk
http://jilly.ca/links
Alan Godfrey Maps (3,900+ publications and counting!) @alangodfreymaps.bsky.social Reprinted Old Ordnance Survey Maps across Britain & Ireland introduced by specialist authors.
https://www.alangodfreymaps.co.uk/
USA sales - https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/alangodfreymaps?_trksid=p2334524.m570.l113337
#CombatCartography #MatchMap
Rachel MacGregor @anoldhand.bsky.social Digital Preservation Officer at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. Interested in digital preservation, archives and public engagement. Also random public transport content. Views my own unless a repost. She/her.
Brian Edwards @public-history.bsky.social Historiographer and practicing public historian that is fanatical about rugby union.
Business History Conference @businesshistoryc.bsky.social The BHC is a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history || https://thebhc.org/ news at https://theexchangebhc.substack.com/p/the-bhc-newsletter
Rachael Haslam @rachaelhaslam.bsky.social WRoCAH PhD at the University of York |
Medieval trust, distrust and local networks | she/her
Dr Angela Buckley @drangelabuckley.bsky.social Historian, and author specialising in true crime, Victorian and Edwardian detectives, and the history of forensic science. Also, linguist 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹. Rep: Past Preservers. http://drangelabuckley.com
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
Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social Academic and heritage professional • Working on travelling players in the Midlands • Early modern drama, politics, religion • PhD • FHEA • Tutoring services (A-Level and up) on Tutorperch: https://l1nq.com/o4g75mp
Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Neil Wholey @neilwholey.bsky.social UK social/market researcher, history and genealogy - Victorian pantomime, animal impersonators, music hall, ballet. Bit of polling and comms. No politics
rosatroupe.co.uk
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Christine Gundermann @cgpublichistory.bsky.social Prof. für Public History an der Universität zu Köln/ Sprecherin der AG PublicHistory im VHD/ KGD Arbeitsgruppe Historische Lernorte/ privat
Gosling Press @goslingpress.bsky.social Gosling Press is a small publisher specialising in books about the First World War. We have a special interest in campaigns away from the Western Front
Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian/geographer. Mountain and polar regions. Cryohistories. Indigenous knowledge. Island Studies.
PL AHRC 'Other Everests' network.
uclan.academia.edu/JonathanWestaway 
Graham Macklin @grahammacklin.bsky.social Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
Dr John Davies @jed1848.bsky.social FRHistS. Independent scholar.Eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Archivist.
Currently researching the life of Charles Francis Greville (1749-1809).
Malik Al Nasir @malikalnasir.bsky.social PhD Candidate, (History) University of Cambridge, St Catharine’s College. Poet, author “Letters to Gil” (William Collins, 2021) “Searching for my Slave Roots” (William Collins, 28 Aug 2025). Protégé of Gil Scott-Heron
https://linktr.ee/malikalnasir
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
Dr Hélène Maloigne @hmaloigne.bsky.social Historical consultant: helenemaloigne.wordpress.com
Curator @ British Museum
Represented by Past Preservers: www.pastpreservers.com
Good chocolate, disco and houseplants
They/them 🏳️⚧️🤝🏳️🌈
Dr. Vanessa Campanacho @vcampanacho.bsky.social Bioanthropologist interested in osteology, paleopathology, history of anthropology, ethics, curation practices, and women in science. Feminist and setting my own path in science. She/her
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Hannah O’Regan @palaeohan.bsky.social Archaeologist studying lots of things (mainly bones) ‘cos I’m cursed with curiosity. I like cats, crafts, bears and fungi. She/her. Own views.
Katy Duncan 🍉 @katysduncan.bsky.social Postdoc at the Royal Institution. Interested in all things old and science-y. Probably drinking coffee.
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
ultima thule @thethousandthpart.com C18-19 British/Irish history | RN/polar exploration | Photographer; librarian; independent researcher of life and career of Capt. Francis Crozier. www.thethousandthpart.com
Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology
Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532
For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
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.
Jenny McAuley @jennymcauley.bsky.social Writer, literary historian, book reviewer based in Oxford, UK
jennylmcauley@gmail.com
Helen Gray @helengray.bsky.social Research student @LSHTM. @wbtiuk Steering Group #Breastfeeding #PolicyMatters #IYCFE #FoodSecurity #ClimateEmergency. IBCLC and mum of three. Also anthropology, archaeology, human evolution, messing about in boats, #ActiveTravel
Alastair Dunn @alastairdunn.bsky.social European | Edinburgh-born | Historian of the Middle Ages | Northern Renaissance | Romanesque sculpture | Peasants’ Revolt | victory to Ukraine
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Dr Matilda Fitzmaurice @matildaf.bsky.social Bi. Lecturer int. climate politics, futures, childless geographies. UCU NEC LGBTQ+ rep (HE), 26/27 Equality Chair
UCU Commons. I mainly post about Girls Aloud. She/her
https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5220-0914
Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. No access to DMs.
PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social- C Clive Richards @cliverichards.bsky.social History geek, with a particular interest in matters aviation, military and naval. All views my own (however stupid, boring or irrelevant).
David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.
DCS Heritage @dcs-heritage.bsky.social Passionate about the heritage sector, data & engagement specialist, & museum volunteer 🎭💻🏛️ https://dcs-heritage.uk