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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL Refugees, Migration, and Rights Author of Making Refugees in India
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org dreaming of practical better futures @dosima_org on the other place
Antoni Porayski-Pomsta @aporayskipomsta.bsky.social Historian and postdoc at UCD. I have worked on (sub)urban history, violence and spaces of belonging. Currently contributing to an environmental history of the Russian empire. https://people.ucd.ie/antoni.porayski-pomsta/about
Amie with an ‘i.e.’ 🔜 SDCC @librarylandia.bsky.social Public Historian, Librarian, TCAF Director Former NYorker🗽Current Canadian 🇨🇦 Past President GNCRT she/her // opinions all me Writing my PhD on comics censorship https://carleton.ca/history/cu-people/amie-wright/
The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social ~ all about the archives ~ A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Ben Railton @americanstudier.bsky.social Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. Married. We the People: http://tinyurl.com/yyhxjktb; Of Thee I Sing: http://tinyurl.com/y6hsozjx. #ScholarSunday guru. https://blackwhiteandread.com he/him
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/
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 ~
Ann Marie Wilson @annmariewilson.bsky.social Historian at Leiden University College. Environmental history, Dutch history, gardens, birds, city parks. Oh and lots of dusty old nature guides.
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Dr Mary Ann Bolger @maryannbolger.bsky.social Design historian, typography botherer
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Leah Armstrong @drleaharmstrong.bsky.social Design Historian , FWF Senior Post-Doc Fellow @ Angewandte, Vienna https://www.drleaharmstrong.eu/ Reviews Editor, Journal of Design History Author, The Industrialized Designer, (MUP, 2024) Fellow, Young Academy, OeAW
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!
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
Rujana Rebernjak @rujana.bsky.social Historian of architecture and design, researching Eastern Europe under socialism
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Jane Tynan @janeym.bsky.social Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching climate & clothing, also histories of fashion and graphic design | Leads MA Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
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
Sabine Hanke @sabinehanke.bsky.social Historian of Modern History, mainly researching and teaching things ~ transnational, colonial, animal ~ also coffee coffee coffee and biking University of Tübingen, Germany she/her
Ellie Brown @elliebrown.bsky.social Researcher, writer. Looking at twentieth-century architecture and design (shopping centres, public art, urban space, interior design). emadeleinebrown.com
Hannah S @hannahsto.bsky.social PhD student @ Oxford/Museum of the Home 👯‍♂️👯‍♀️ Researching youth, gender and queerness in the 19th/20th century (she/her)
Molly Avery @mollyavery.bsky.social Historian
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Isabelle Griffiths @knowledgeum.bsky.social Information professional working in a cultural non-profit in Geneva, CH. Trained as an Art Historian and currently learning Library and Information Services Management at the University of Sheffield's iSchool.
Mark Vincent @mvincenthistory.bsky.social Secondary History teacher at Clifton Community School, Rotherham.
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
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.
Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social Historian of the emotions, visual & material culture, (sometimes) gender, lately monuments & memory in the urban landscape
@designanthropology.bsky.social @designanthropology.bsky.social
Aoife Cantrill @acantrill.bsky.social Laming Junior Research Fellow, Queen's College Oxford || Translation, gender & imperialism in 20th c China & Taiwan || @queenscollegeox.bsky.social @oxfordcct.bsky.social || https://www.queens.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-aoife-cantrill/
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Jack Hanlon @jackhanlon.bsky.social Curator at the Food Museum Postdoctoral Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London Editor at the London Journal
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 repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA views are all mine 💫
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
victoria ogoegbunam okoye @ogoegbunam.bsky.social daughter, sister, aunty, friend, collaborator; writer-thinker in black (african + diaspora) geographies, creative spatial practices. plant. deep dreams. food + anime lover. committed to authentic collaboration, black liberation, care + growth. 🌻🌻🌻
Hannah Robbins (they/them) @drhannahrobbins.bsky.social Educator - Writer - Speaker - Consultant: Musical Theatre, Identity in Popular Culture, Black Studies & Music. Author: TOO DARN HOT: KISS ME, KATE AND THE MAKING AND REMAKING OF A BROADWAY MUSICAL (OUP, 2026)
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
HOWL @howl2025.bsky.social HOWL aims to create a welcoming online home for all oral, written and photographic memories of the Women's Liberation Movement 1969-1990s. We invite all older feminists to contribute! Visit our website to find out more >> https://howl-uk.org/about <<
Anna Greenwood @profannagreenwood.bsky.social Prof of Modern Health History @ University of Nottingham. Health Humanities, history of 20/21C health consumerism, and public health. Now researching the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship. Used to write on Empire. Account personal.
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling https://humap.me/ #GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
madison @beastlibrarian.bsky.social 📍 seattle-ish 📚 art librarian (academic libraries) 👩🏻‍🏫 part-time faculty teaching arts librarianship this is an unprofessional account! I’m here for people with librarian in their bio.
Journal of Design History @jodesignhistory.bsky.social The Journal of Design History (Design History Society/OUP) publishes peer reviewed articles & reviews.
Design History Society @sodesignhistory.bsky.social A leading organisation promoting the study of global design histories https://www.designhistorysociety.org/
Words of Type @wordsoftype.com About typography. With a multilingual encyclopedia, events, and a community. 👉 https://wiki.wordsoftype.com Events: https://wordsoftype.com
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Nana Osei-Opare @nanaoseiopare.bsky.social Assistant Professor of African and Cold War History at Rice University
Susie Protschky @susieprotschky.bsky.social Professor of Global Political History Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 🇳🇱 Colonialism | Southeast Asia 🌏 Photography | Visual Culture War | Gender | Environment www.susieprotschky.com https://vu.nl/en/research/scientists/susie-protschky
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own. Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
David Baillargeon @davidbaillargeon.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the British Empire at the University of Texas at Arlington / industrial heritage connoisseur / sports fanatic / he/him
Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social Professor of Medical Anthropology (University of St Andrews, Scotland) researching zoonosis, plague, epidemics, colonial medicine, biopolitics, multispecies relations, and medical visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl12
Wingshan @wingshan.bsky.social 🌀 artist, curator, witch, storyteller 🔮 supporting @warpminiatures.bsky.social 🧚 building @twistedspiregames.bsky.social 📍 nottingham, uk ☁️ dreaming about mermaids, fairies, witches, dragons, princesses with swords
Twisted Spire @twistedspiregames.bsky.social 🔮 Crafting games to inspire, empower, and enchant 🧜‍♀️ Woman and POC led @wingshan.bsky.social 🌀First project: Sirens’ Oath | Eco-fantasy mermaid one-shot RPG with magical miniatures ✨ Diverse stories. Narrative-driven. D6 only. 📍 Nottingham, UK
Luca Scholz @lscholz.bsky.social Senior Lecturer (Assoc. Prof.) at Uni Manchester | History, Mapping & Data | lucascholz.com
Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
Allan Pang @allanpang.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Bristol. Historian. Research: Chinese overseas, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, history education, popular music, decolonisation.
David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social Literary geographer writing about writing about place. Co-Director of the Centre for Place Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Jason Petrulis @petrulis.bsky.social History prof in Hong Kong. My award-winning articles: “A Country of Hair”: ROK Wigs, Kor Am Entrepreneurs, Af Am Hairstyles, & Cold War Industrialization http://bit.ly/3PENmX0 The jawbone/quijada as global Black musical instrument https://bit.ly/4nAl7ba
Ezrena Marwan @ezrena.bsky.social Daydreaming at Malaysia Design Archive. Thinking about memory-making between timezones @ Liberatory Archives & Memory at Whose Knowledge? Based in Malaysia. She/Her.
Carolien Stolte @carolienstolte.bsky.social Historian | Leiden University | India | Peace | Decolonization | Books | Running peace.lucdh.eu
Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social Creative-critical research centre, Manchester Metropolitan University. Exploring the relationship between writing & place to examine major contemporary issues Co-directed by Dr David Cooper & Prof Rachel Lichtenstein https://linktr.ee/centreforplacewriting
Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social Teaches and researches modern British History. Nottingham and Brighton, UK. He/him.
Marybeth Hamilton @marybethhamilton13.bsky.social Writer, historian, podcaster.
Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social Full-time Mum • Writer • Associate Professor @ CUNY (Grad Ctr + Hunter) • PhDJ • out now ⬇️ my book 📒🏝️DARK LABORATORY (Doubleday). Manhattanite. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725301/dark-laboratory-by-tao-leigh-goffe/ www.taoleighgoffe.com
differences @differences.bsky.social a journal of feminist cultural studies | https://differencesjournal.org
Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social Associate Professor at SUNY Canton. YA series books, C19AmLit, WWI, fandom, gender studies. Queer (pan/demi), feminist, Wiccan. 🏳️‍🌈📚☕ Views my own, not employer's. https://linktr.ee/emilyhamiltonhoney
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Shirin Hirsch @shirinhirsch.bsky.social Anti racist historian. Views my own
Dr Anna N Nagele (she/her) @annannagele.bsky.social HCI / design / theory postdoctoral researcher @DieAngewandteWien lecturer @UAL editor @ThePosthumanist annanoldanagele.com
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps ➥ Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs. ➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Danielle Kinsey @daniellekinsey.bsky.social historian of 19C Britain & Empire, diamonds, history of the body, material culture, consumption, minerals & mining, teaching & learning, Carleton U, settler🏳️‍🌈 co-editor-in-chief @h-materialculture.bsky.social
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Jessica Barness @jbarness.bsky.social Design Scholar / Scholarly Designer ✨
Grace Lees-Maffei @gracelm.bsky.social Prof of Design History; Author, Design at Home; Reading Graphic Design; Ed. Design & Heritage, Designing Worlds, The Design History Reader etc; Chair, Journal of Design History; Book Series Co-Editor, Cultural Histories of Design. www.graceleesmaffei.org
H-Material Culture @h-materialculture.bsky.social 3000+ member H-Net academic network about the study of objects, the built environment, and materiality. @ us about your *things*, pubs, CFPs, syllabi, etc. #MaterialCulture Posts by @daniellekinsey.bsky.social https://networks.h-net.org/h-material-culture
Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social Historian of identities, education and social movements in modern Britain. Interested in antiracism and pedagogy. Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Kings College London.
Dr. Amy Matthewson @amymatthewson.bsky.social Historian of China in the British Imagination, 19th and early 20th centuries, Visual and Material Cultures. Assistant Professor at University of Birmingham
Lisa Godson @lisagdub.bsky.social Historian of architecture & material culture; Programme Leader MA Design History Material Culture, NCAD, Dublin. Researching architectural-material history of Royal Hospital Kilmainham [also: tropical modern architecture; Catholicism; medical instruments]
Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Advocacy & Academic Engagement Officer at Royal Historical Society. Lecturer in History @ Queen’s College, Oxford. FRHistS. All views my own. 🇨🇦🇱🇰🇬🇧 📧 hannah.elias@royalhistsoc.org
Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social Historian of C18th & C19th Southeast Asia, South Asia and Australia. Research Fellow at ANU. Main research - provenance reports for repatriation. Quaker. https://researchportalplus.anu.edu.au/en/persons/gareth-knapman https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-6659
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
Colin Lorne @colinlorne.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography & Director of OpenSpace Research Centre at the Open University | Usually talking crises and conjunctures | Jazz, soul, rocksteady | All views my own, etc.
Keith Bresnahan @designhist.bsky.social Historian of design, emotions, 19C France, destruction, ruins and the like. writing a book about the aftermath of the Paris Commune.
Emma Brennan @emmaeditorial.bsky.social Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
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
Sara McDougall @sarannmcd.bsky.social Medieval gender, crime, & history prof. at John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center, writing about a survivor in c.1470 France for PrincetonUPress, 2023-4 Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York Public Library, bylines Slate etc.
Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social Dr of poetry | Publishing tips | Disability Studies | Early Modern literature | He/him | Opinions are my own
marral @marralsham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mshamshiri
Dr Mary Katherine Newman @maryknewman.bsky.social PhD in Colonial Spanish American Literature @Oxford Incoming Quirk Postdoctoral Fellow @UCL 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿/🇺🇸 https://linktr.ee/maryknewman
nikki ⋆·˚ ༘ * @curiousother.bsky.social artist-curator-filmmaker ☽ she/they hong kong / naarm ✧ hyphenated projects + slow burn books nikkilam.info
‍ @decolonialhacker.org Decolonial Hacker critically examines institutions, corporations, and nation states to interrogate their influence on the conditions of living. decolonialhacker.org
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
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/
Claire Wintle @clairewintle.bsky.social Historian of museums, exhibitions, collecting, imperialism, decolonisation, India, thinking about now. Director of the Centre for Design History and teaching MA Curating at University of Brighton.
Felicity Hall @thingyness.bsky.social AHRC Techne PhD - The professionalisation of floral design in Britain 1930 to 1960. https://www.techne.ac.uk/our-students/alumni/2019/felicity-hall/ Instagram @thingyness