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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com Politics guy @virginmedianews.bsky.social; host of Monday with Gavan Reilly (10pm, Virgin Media One); weekly columnist @thejournal.ie; bestselling author of ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐๐ซ๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐๐ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐๐ซ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐: linktr.ee/gavreilly
Maurice Brosnan @m-brosnan.bsky.social Irish Examiner senior sportswriter ๐๏ธ๐ฑ๐น
John Fogarty @johnfogartyirl.bsky.social Irish Examiner GAA correspondent. Liverpool FC supporter. Enjoy spoiling good walks. Not the CCR JF. Personal views aired here, not the newspaper's.
www.examiner.ie/sport
Malachy Clerkin @malachyclerkin.bsky.social Sportswriter for The Irish Times. Looking up, not down.
malachy.clerkin@irishtimes.com
Kathleen McNamee @kathleenmcn.bsky.social Off the Ball's Senior Commercial Content Producer | The COYGIG Pod Host | Former ESPN UK & ESPN FC | โ๏ธ๐บ๐ป | she/her | kathleen.mcnamee@offtheball.com |
Ger Gilroy @gergilroy.bsky.social 
Tommy Rooney @tommyrooney.bsky.social Host of The Football Pod, Off The Ballโs GAA Correspondent.
Cahair OโKane @cahairokane.bsky.social Did ye aye?
Sports journalist with The Irish News, mostly on GAA.
Email: c.okane@irishnews.com
Shane Keegan @shanekeegan81.bsky.social Head of Coaching & Games @ Laois GAA Contributor @ OffTheBall & The42.ie
UEFA Pro Licence
JK Brackens Dual Manager
Dan McDonnell @danmcdonnell.bsky.social Irish Independent Football Correspondent. LOI Central co-host.
Joe Molloy @molloyjoe.bsky.social Broadcaster. Indo Sport podcast & VMTVโs rugby coverage.
Once upon a time, OTB
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.socialโฌ. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Lucy Janes @lucyjanes.bsky.social Swimming in Glasgow 1850-1950 PhD http://stir.ac.uk/people/1844166 Archives, heritage, history, books, Mongolia, China, movies. She/her http://lucyjanes.blog
Raf Nicholson @rafnicholson.bsky.social Womenโs cricket historian & journalist. Sports Journalism lecturer at Bournemouth University & writer for Guardian Sport. Vice Chair of The Cricket Society.
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic dรฉtournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Martin Polley @historymartin.bsky.social Professor Emeritus @dmuleicester and former Director of @icshc_sports_history. Sport, arts, music, places, statues, plaques, heritage, and more. Member of Historic England's National Blue Plaque Panel
https://martinpolley.co.uk/
Dr Victoria Dawson @vsdawson.bsky.social Freelance historian and interdisciplinary researcher for hire. Working class. Radical materialist feminist. Socialist. Anti-fascist. Northern powerhouse. Learning German. PhD: Women and Rugby League: Gender, Class and Community 1880-1970.
Tony Collins @collinstony.bsky.social Historian
Ben Litherland @benlitherland.bsky.social Popular culture and politics.
Sometimes academic who writes about those things.
Co-hosts Ill Effects, good podcast about bad media influence https://open.spotify.com/show/0QotQZhgYQOsjCvGMefNjl?si=zRsbRad6SZO
Cycling Historian ๐ดโโ๏ธ @cyclinghistorian.bsky.social I am Dr. Rick Woten - a sport & environmental historian & professor, former nonprofit director & bike racer.
In development. (looking for publisher): "Two-Wheeled Outlaws: Sport, Athlete, Celebrity, & Unionization in American Cycling's Golden Age"
๐ #iowa
Johanna Mellis @johannamellis.bsky.social Ex-D1 swimmer, historian, ADHDer, @endofsportpod.bsky.social. A sportsperson for life who critiques it to make it better for others. Writing slowly on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOCโs imperialism in the Cold War. she/her.
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 
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.
Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social Associate Professor of public health at Muhlenberg College. History, ethics, epidemiology, sports, injury prevention.
Rwany Sibaja @rwanysibaja.bsky.social Professor and cultural historian of Latin America (sports: ๐ฆ๐ทโฝ๏ธ) | Orรญgen ๐จ๐ทy ๐บ๐ธ| History Education | Enjoy โ๏ธ+๐ง| https://rwanysibaja.com [Opinions are my own]
Roger Kittleson @rogerkittleson.bsky.social Historian of Brazil, race, space, futebol. Cook, cyclist, Arsenal and Brasil fanatic.
Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social Author of 'Different Class: The Untold Story of English Cricket' now a property standards officer for an infamous Borough Council.
Class - Culture - Environment
https://linktr.ee/DuncanStone
Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff @lempika7.bsky.social ๐๐Author Basketball Empire โฝ๏ธ๐#MakingOfLesBleus. Historian ๐ซ๐ท sports & sports diplomacy, director FranceAndUS
๐Clinical Assistant Prof at NYU Tisch Institute for Global Sports. Fmr HistoryAtState. Views=my own
https://linktr.ee/lkrasnoff
Petra @cliomz.bsky.social Historian, Playwright, Singer
Currently writing: Martha (Regency Amรฉlie Poulain with Wollstonecraftian ideals on the Romantic Rhine)
๐ Ally โข ADHD
Prof Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social Husband. Dad. History prof at MSU (F25). Author of I Fight for a Living, We Will Win the Day, and The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans, and the Making of the Black Quarterback.
profloumoore.com
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 ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Brian D. Bunk @brianbunk.bsky.social I study the early history of soccer in the United States. My new book "The Shortest History of Soccer" is out now.
Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
๐ Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
๐บ๐ธ in ๐ฌ๐ง, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
Andy Carter @andykerrcarter.bsky.social Historian of classical reception, nationalism & class in 19th c sport. Author of Beyond the Pale. New book - Games, Greek & Pluck - published by Peter Lang. Bassist. Partick Thistle & Dulwich Hamlet fan.
Andy Linden @andrewdlinden.bsky.social Sport studies @ csunorthridge he/him/his
Zach Bigalke (he/him/his) @zbigalke.bsky.social Husband
Puppy papa
Former pro cook
Unapologetically profane sport historian
Teaching professor at Penn State Kinesiology
@ussoccerhistory.org secretary
@hk-shr.bsky.social book review editor
NSHOF voter
100% AI-free content, 100% AI hate
Stuart Gibbs @stu68.bsky.social Sports historian studying at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Outside Write (Chris Lee) โฝ๏ธ @outsidewrite.co.uk The curious fanโs football Substack and podcast by Chris Lee, author of ๐ Origin Stories (2021), ๐ The Defiant (2022), and ๐ Shades of Green (2025). DM to commission me
Groundhopping and football culture and history.
More ๐ https://linktr.ee/outsidewrite
BSSH @bssh.bsky.social British Society of Sports History promotes the study of sport history and physical education
Margaret Roberts ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๐๐ณ๐ก @researchdogsbody.bsky.social Fellow of Royal Historical Society
Sport Historian, Genealogist
Member of Few Forgotten Women Team
Editor: Playing Pasts.
Chair: FHSofCheshire
I came, I saw, I researched
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ท๓ ฌ๓ ณ๓ ฟWelsh girl living abroad in Cheshire
Oh and cows - love cows ๐
Matt Taylor @matttayl.bsky.social Historian of sport and other things. Director of International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De Montfort University
Author of Sport and the Home Front (2020) and World of Sport (2024)
Niall Harkiss @niallfh.bsky.social News editor (Highland News & Media) by day and historian/writer when I can, delving into Highland football and community. In sport, I am the long-serving chair of St. Duthus FC and current president of the North Caledonian FA. Dundee United fan. Dad.
Prof Fiona Skillen @fionaskillen.bsky.social Professor in History, GCU. Research: sports & gender history, heritage &volunteering.
Dr Gary James @garyjames.bsky.social Historian of sport, focusing on Manchester.
Visiting Research Professor at NYU; Honorary Research Fellow at DMU. www.GJFootballArchive.com
Dr Alexander Jackson @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social Curator @nfmofficial.bsky.social Former utility DEF. Views my own.
2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize Winner for Football's Great War by Pen & Sword.
National Football Museum @nfmofficial.bsky.social The official account of England's national football museum. Open in Manchester every day, 10am - 5pm (last entry 4pm).
Ornella Nzindukiyimana @orarunswild.bsky.social Nzee-ndoo-kee-yee-mah-nah, PhD -- Historian of Black sportspeople -- Assoc. Prof. StFX U -- Co-President of BCSA -- Editor, Sport History Review -- She/Her/Elle -- โ๐พ ๐ท๐ผ ๐จ๐ฆ
Catherine Beale @cbeale1.bsky.social Writer & historian. 'Champagne & Shambles' & 'Born out of Wenlock'. Clients inc Hampton Court, Herefds, Heckfield Place, Hants, & Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust. cbeale.co.uk
Bruce Berglund @beastofberglund.bsky.social Historian transplanted from Duluth to Prague | Teaching: Institute of International Studies, Charles Univ | New book: "The Moscow Playbook: How Russia Used, Abused & Transformed Sports in the Hunt for Power" | More: bruceberglund.net
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social ๐ฅ 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
๐ THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
โ๐ป Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
๐๐ป Write fight books raise dinosaur child
๐ฉ๐ปโ๐ป Science charity PR
๐๏ธ Clacton-on-Sea
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Conor Heffernan @physcstudy.bsky.social Lecturer At Ulster University. Historian of health, fitness and physical culture. Co-host of Boys We've Seen podcast. I also run history of fitness website, physicalculturestudy.com