@dublinbookfest.bsky.social @dublinbookfest.bsky.social Premier book festival showcasing and celebrating Ireland’s writers, illustrators and publishers. Flagship festival 4 - 8 November with year-round events. Supported by the Arts Council.
https://linktr.ee/dublinbookfestival
@louisebrangan.bsky.social @louisebrangan.bsky.social LSE, Magdalene laundries, sociology of punishment & Irish history. BBC/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Speaks fast. 888 for subtitles. https://pureportal.strath.ac.uk/en/persons/louise-brangan
Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities/Teaching Fellow in History of Science & Medicine at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Bradford lass
🇨🇦 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.
Alex Curran @alexcurran95.bsky.social https://mastodon.social/@AlexCurran_95
https://share.upscrolled.com/en/user/06106116-15ec-47d4-9069-02b15671b911/
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 Alexa Neale (she/her) @drlexxx.bsky.social Criminologist. Historian. Researcher. Writer. Talker. True Crime consumer, critic and crafter. Cat-Mum. AlexaNeale.com
Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social History worth reading. Book reviews, publishing news, craft essays, podcast interviews, all about nonfiction books.
Kevin Wilson @kwilsonhfx.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Housing maximalist. Reviewer of local bike lanes and urbanism opiner at HFX By Bike: https://youtube.com/@hfxbybike
Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social Official acc for the Art Deco Society UK. Follow us to see news, updates & help spread the love for the UK’s Art Deco or join the Society https://artdecosociety.uk/
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
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Emma Bastin @emmabastin.bsky.social Historian of the early twentieth century; mum; crafter; bibliophile; lover of all things 1930s. Treasurer of Art Deco Soc UK. Founder of the Independent Historians Network Represented by Past Preservers.
www.emmabastin.com
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
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
Dr Susan Curley Meyer @susancurleymeyer.bsky.social Art History & Cultural Policy, UCD. Design History & Material Culture. Oral History. 19th and 20th century street traders, Dublin.
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him 
Raven Books @ravenbooks.bsky.social Bookshop
34 Main Street, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland
info@ravenbooks.ie ¦ (01) 278 9509 ¦ 086 3390231
Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12-5
@daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social Historian of slavery, age, and gender in the US. Co-editor of American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
Most recent book, Old Age and American Slavery (CUP, 2024).
Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social Author, historian, and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast. FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION forthcoming from Putnam. Rep: Helm Literary.
Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social Professor, historian, husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Author of Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025). “Awesome but a bit boring” (RMP). Personal account.
Decrim Now @decrimnow.bsky.social We are a grassroots campaign group led by sex workers, trade unionists & feminists. We fight for the full decriminalisation of sex work in the UK.
Take action: https://linktr.ee/ukdecrimnow
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Julie-Ann Colgan @historywithjac.bsky.social Historical researcher into Irish Social History, including genealogy, sex work, LBGT History and women in society, and Tudor history and beyond
LibraryThing @librarything.com LibraryThing is the number one app and website for cataloging your books, getting book recommendations and socializing with fellow book lovers.
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Eamonn Sweeney @sweeneyagonistes.bsky.social
Freelance writer. Lapsed novelist.
Interesting writing gigs gratefully considered.
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social My new book - The Umbrella Man and Other Stories - is out now. A Radio Four pick of the week.
Order details and live events - https://linktr.ee/4hundredblows
Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
My posts are my own opinions and do not reflect those of my employer.
Maeve O’Rourke @maeveorourke.bsky.social Lecturer in Human Rights at Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway
Ken Foxe @kenfoxe.bsky.social Author of Shining a Light: Information Access in Ireland | A practical guide to using FOI | http://kenfoxe.com
The Josephine Butler Society @josephinebutlersoc.bsky.social From Josephine Butler’s legacy to today, we champion equality, safety, and justice for all. Find out more on our website: https://www.josephinebutlersociety.org/
Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social historian, PhD @BirkbeckUoL on sex work, public health and HIV/AIDS in late 20thc Britain 🍞🌹 she/her 🍉
Patrick Burnett @sociologix.ca Sociologist who builds. Tools for thinking with data — literature networks, applied AI, mixed-methods research. Sex-industry safety · higher ed · vulnerable populations. Available 2026 for contract work… sociologix.ca
SexSafetySecurity @sexsafetysecure.bsky.social Advocating evidenced-based policy instead of policy-based evidence - nothing less, nothing more.
Ruth Fletcher @ruthfletcher.bsky.social Feminist legal academic interested in reproducing life otherwise at Queen Mary University of London, and elsewhere | #Repealedthe8th
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 🧑💻
History Hub at UCD @historyhub.bsky.social History Hub is based at the School of History, University College Dublin. Our ambition is to make the most recent academic research available on-line to everyone who loves history.
https://historyhub.ie
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Dean Buckley @deanbuckley.bsky.social bad news from the zone, tumbleweeds
catholic socialist & smalltown journalist
in the valley near Slievenamon, Co. Tipperary
leftinthelurch.net | thesundae.net
Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
@ruresearch.bsky.social @ruresearch.bsky.social
Research briefings by Dr Raven Bowen on adult industries, labour, policy, safety, rights, and social justice.
The Agnes Owens Archive @aowensarchive.bsky.social Opening 16.01.26, a new public resource dedicated to the Scottish writer Agnes Owens. This archive is housed within agrayarchive.bsky.social
Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social I was that @theirishfor guy on Twitter.
"Calling 353" on @thejournal.ie
Author of Motherfoclóir & Craic Baby. He/Him. Wink in bio 😉
Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
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
The Kinsey Institute @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social We are a world-renowned research institute and historical archive at Indiana University exploring sex, relationships and wellbeing.
Learn more at kinseyinstitute.org
Disgruntled Lesbian @izzykamikaze.bsky.social Just another refugee from That Other Place.
Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 1st gen academic from Sligo/Donegal, now in Vancouver. Does research on obscure topics. Extremely fond of Cicero.
She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own.
siobhanmcelduff.com
Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social Newly elected leader of lefty Irish Bluesky. Exiled leader of lefty Irish twitter, current Lord Mayor of Dublin and occasional podcaster. tortoiseshack.ie is my home. 
Three Castles Burning @3castlesburning.bsky.social The Dublin History Podcast.
New Buke: The Dublin Pub:A Social and Cultural History (October 10)
@brian-hanley.bsky.social @brian-hanley.bsky.social Historian, podcaster 'Dirty War in Dublin' & 'Brothers in Pain'; it is possible to disagree in good faith, but let's be honest we won't do it.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Raani Begum @raanibegum.bsky.social Speaking into existence.
Queer. SW. Not working here, no clients.
Desi 🏴
Disabled. Mad.
Organizer. (Harm reduction, mask blocs, etc)
Anarchist. Writing somewhere
Not my work account
Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/she
Hailey M @haileymaltempisoc.bsky.social UNLV PhD Student in the Department of Sociology.
Conducting research with sex workers navigating FOSTA-SESTA.
Further reach: hailey.maltempi@unlv.edu
Dr Ezra Horbury @ezrahorbury.bsky.social Sr Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of York.
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Elaine Crory @elainecrory.bsky.social Feminism, cardigans, complaining
Lorraine Grimes @lorrainegrimes.bsky.social Academic, activist, social policy, reproductive health, mother and baby institutions
Connie Egan MLA @connieegan.bsky.social Alliance Party MLA for North Down
Kate Nicholl MLA @katenicholl.bsky.social Alliance Party MLA for South Belfast | Former Mayor of Belfast 💛
The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net I hunt fake history and correct it, but also post amazing real history stuff. Rude, obscene, vulgar, racist people who can't act like grown-ups get blocked.
https://linktr.ee/fakehistoryhunter
Rachel Shabi @rachelshabi.bsky.social Journalist, author, broadcaster. Politics, Middle East
TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com I'm an associate professor of law at University College Dublin specialising in technology law (mostly privacy/data protection/cybercrime/fundamental rights), consultant solicitor with FP Logue LLP, and chair of Digital Rights Ireland.
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Phil Christman @philipchristman.bsky.social pretty good writer. philipchristman.substack.com. https://bookshop.org/p/books/why-christians-should-be-leftists-phil-christman/22293923?ean=9780802884053&next=t; https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/collections/vendors?q=Phil%20Christman&contributorID=22914
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Sinéad Collins @sinead1988.bsky.social 
Beyond the Interface Conference @interface-2024.bsky.social Conference exploring the intersections of sex work and sex technology| Oct. 17-19, 2024|
Conference recordings: https://archive.org/details/@beyond_the_interface
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
laura 🇦🇷 @lauraisloading.bsky.social writer and organizer @decrimny.bsky.social | she/her/ella
lauratorlaschi.com
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Amy Prendergast @amyprendergast.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Eighteenth-Century Studies, School of English, Trinity College Dublin | Author of Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Shane O'Mahony @dromahony.bsky.social Criminologist interested in student engagement, drug policy, media representations of violence, and drug-related harm.
Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social Durham University's Department of History is nestled right at the heart of this historic city, sitting alongside the World Heritage Cathedral and Castle.
PRIDE Daily @pridedailypod.bsky.social The world’s ONLY daily LGBTQ+ news podcast.
We bring you the top three global stories in just two minutes.
PRIDE Daily: LGBTQ+ news for everyone.
Listen here: https://pod.link/1712324163
Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social Global tax politics, economic sociology, political economy, equality. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland
Brewster Kahle @brewster.kahle.org Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, Open Library. https://brewster.kahle.org https://archive.org https://openlibrary.org
Cllr Anthony Flynn @antoflynnser.greenpartyni.org Green party Councillor 🌍 | East Belfast - Ormiston DEA 🏗 | Anthony.flynn@greenpartyni.org | www.greenpartyni.org
Paul Bloomer @bloomeroid.bsky.social Twitch Streamer 🎮 Queer bear🐻🏳️🌈
Trans ally🏳️⚧️
Born of two sides of Northern Ireland 🕊️🤝
He/they 🕺🏋️♂️
https://linktr.ee/bloomeroid
Any views are my own and not of my employer.
Nicola Carr @nicolacarr.bsky.social Academic | Criminology, Social Policy and Social Work | Trinity College Dublin📍🇮🇪🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Rick Muir @rickmuirbskysocial.bsky.social Policing Advisor at the UK Home Office. Previously Director of the Police Foundation and Associate Director at IPPR. Dad. From Teesside #UTB.
Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social I teach and research criminology stuff at the University of Oxford - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader. I am also Chair of Cyclox - https://www.cyclox.org. You'll find me musing on ecologies of security, policing, urban mobilities and Arsenal FC
Dr Melissa Jardine @majardine.bsky.social Ethnographer | PI @arc_gov_au DP #Pacific Policing | Hon. Fellow @unimelbMSPGH | @Asia21Leaders | @UNODC | Author of ‘Policing in a Changing #Vietnam’
Prof Liz Aston @lizaston.bsky.social Prof of Criminology Edinburgh Napier University, Director of the Scottish Institute for Policing Research. Local policing & intersections with health (drugs & harm reduction) & technology (PI INTERACT)
Michael O’Toole @mickthehack.bsky.social Crime and Defence Editor, Irish Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Star. I’m a crime novelist in my spare time. I’m a linguist, too: 🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇸🇦. I don’t do opinions, and it’s great. #MCFC OK
Tim Cubitt @drtimc.bsky.social Associate Professor - policing, sexual exploitation of children, extremism.
Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
Kev Dertadian (He/Him) 🍉 @kdertadian.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology: non-carceral responses to drugs, harm reduction. Qualitative research on non-medical pharmaceutical use, injecting use.
Live on stolen and unceeded Wallumattagal country, and work on Bedegal country.
David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social South of the Thames, south of the Yarra. Rootless cosmopolitan. Historian. Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and University of Melbourne. Racism (against). Arsenal.
Stewart Motha @stewartmotha.bsky.social Professor of Law, Birkbeck, Uni of London / podcaster Countersign: https://countersignisapodcast.com/
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StopWatch @stopwatchuk.bsky.social An independent organisation using research, policy advocacy, litigation, and community engagement to understand the impacts of disproportionate policing and hold forces to account
Contact | info@stop-watch.org
Donate | https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/18388
Bristol Copwatch @bristolcopwatch.bsky.social Independent grassroots police monitoring