David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
@prisonservicejourn.bsky.social @prisonservicejourn.bsky.social
Australian Journal of Politics and History @ajph-wiley.bsky.social AJPH is an international peer-reviewed journal publishing original research addressing significant problems of interest to those working in the fields of history, political science, and related disciplines with a particular focus on Australia.
Eleanor Medhurst (she/her) @eleanormedhurst.bsky.social Lesbian fashion historian, writer, lecturer 💖☀️ http://dressingdykes.com 📚 ‘Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion’ out now!
📍Brighton, UK.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Emily Rose Hay @emilyrosehay.bsky.social
@alexandracox.bsky.social @alexandracox.bsky.social
@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
Dr Jessamy Carlson @jessamycarlson.bsky.social Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
JACANZS @jacanzs.bsky.social Bluesky page for @acnzsn.bsky.social's Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies (JACANZS), a new #online, #openaccess, #notforprofit, #interdisciplinary, & #multidisciplinary #journal. Managed by @drjatindermann.bsky.social.
Dr Angie Sutton-Vane @angiesuttonvane.bsky.social Visiting history fellow and consultant at the Open University | #Orgreave inquiry panel member | researcher and writer e.g. the material culture of the archives, crime and police records | Find me at: https://angelasuttonvane.com/
H-Net Journals @h-net-journals.bsky.social Fully open-access scholarly publishing. Home of:
📚 Journal of Festive Studies
📚 H-Net Teaching Conference Proceedings
📚 Remembering the American Revolution at 250
📚 Ecokritike
📚 Cultural Encounters of the Civil War Era
Routledge Books @routledgebooks.bsky.social Academic publisher of books, journals, eBooks, textbooks, software, and online learning resources. 📚💡
Bloomsbury Academic @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social The scholarly arm of Bloomsbury Books.
Posting news on what we're publishing in the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts.📚
London | New York | Sydney | New Delhi
Bloomsbury Academic starter pack: https://bit.ly/46qkzOf
Bloomsbury Books UK @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social We make books! An independent publishing house with authors who have won the Nobel, Pulitzer and Booker Prizes. ✨📚
Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social Academic historian, writer, sometimes musician, full time cat lady. Interested in gender and deviance in long 18th century Wales & England. www.angelamuir.co.uk
Sarah Murden @sarahmurden.bsky.social 18th century historian, FRHistS, genealogist and author for Pen & Sword books.
Host of the website: All Things Georgian. https://georgianera.wordpress.com/
Crossref @crossref.bsky.social We are the 51 people behind the nonprofit custodian of >180 million open #DOI #metadata and relationships used billions of times monthly by just about every tool in #openscience. More at https://www.crossref.org. [PS we only follow orgs, to keep it easy!]
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Dr Anna McKay @drannaloismckay.bsky.social Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Lecturer in Public History @keeleuniversity.bsky.social. Formerly Leverhulme Trust ECF at Liverpool.
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social PhD in History, postdoctoral researcher @durhamhistory.bsky.social on 'Modelling the Black Death' project. Former Postan @EcHistSoc fellow and researcher for @womensworkexe.
Hannah Greig @hannahgreig.bsky.social Historian. Hon. Prof at Royal Holloway, Uni of London.
Experienced consultant to film & TV who actually enjoys making period dramas (Bridgerton, Buccanneers, The Favourite, Poldark, The Duchess, Death Comes to Pemberley & more). Author of THE BEAU MONDE
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
ORCID @orcid.org Connecting research and researchers. https://linktr.ee/orcid_org
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Dr Charlotte Parsonson-Young @charlie-l-y.bsky.social Early modern & genealogy tutor at Conted Oxford. Lecturer at Wake Forest Uni (London campus). Writing on English Civil War sequestration, & John Bradshawe. Vice-Chair of @Cromwellorg.bsky.social. Reviews Editor of @MidlandHistory.bsky.social.
Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. ⚔️
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Findmypast @findmypast.bsky.social Findmypast helps you understand your family history. Delve deeper into your family tree by getting to know the world your ancestors lived in — their triumphs, setbacks, and heartbreaks — to uncover your family’s unique story. Here 9-5 weekdays.
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
Aisha Djelid @aishadjelid.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the antebellum South, Broadbent Career Development Fellow in American History at the Rothermere American Institute & St Edmund Hall at Oxford
American Nineteenth Century History Journal @anchistjournal.bsky.social Social media profile for the journal American Nineteenth Century History: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/fanc20
@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).
SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social Inspiring the next generation to develop ideas for a fairer world. Follow us for tweets about SOAS life, news and events. #WeAreSOAS
Jisc @jisc.bsky.social Jisc: for the future of education and research
For more than 30 years, Jisc has pioneered digital solutions for UK education and research, transforming how knowledge is created, shared and used.
www.jisc.ac.uk
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Cultural & Social History @cultsochistory.bsky.social Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
Alex @alexriggsby.bsky.social Warriors | Roots | Sharks | Raiders | Giants
Tom Cryer @thomascryer.bsky.social Lecturer in US History @ Oxford | host @NewBooksNetwork | Comms @ HistoryLab+ | Aldrich Fellow @ HistoryofEducationSociety
Historian of education, ideas, and memory in 20th-C America. Mostly RT's!
Lucy Haigh @lucyhaigh.bsky.social PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑
Currently working on an exhibition.
@historythroughher.bsky.social
https://www.lucyhaigh.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
Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social Always in the Corner
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
University of Kent @kent.ac.uk Welcome to The University of Kent’s official BlueSky feed 👋 We're ambitious for our people, our communities and the region we serve.
Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social Your favourite archive's favourite archive.
We're the archives and local studies library for the historic county of Buckinghamshire, England, and the home of Buckinghamshire History Festival.
Website: buckinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-and-tourism/archives/
Mike Reader - Northampton South @mike-reader.bsky.social Office of Mike Reader MP.
Tweets are created and posted by my team.
Want to get in touch?
📩 Email: mike.reader.casework@parliament.uk
Lucy Rigby MP @lucyrigby.bsky.social Chief Secretary to the Treasury 🇬🇧 | Labour MP for Northampton North | For casework, please contact lucy.rigby.mp@parliament.uk
Valentina Diaconu @devaldia.bsky.social Ed-Dev Psychology GTA & PhD researcher at the University of Northampton (GMBPsS, FHEA)
*Classroom Eye-Tracking Research
*Passionate about Research Ethics, Methods and Statistics
Zuzubee Huidrom @zuzubeeh.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh/Gender, war, economic and social history
Andrew Walmsley @walmsley1963.bsky.social PhD History Student at Lancaster University. Monuments. Memorials. Heritage. Victorian Seaside. https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/people/andrew-walmsley(676a3c04-4496-497f-8ee4-8300785be781).html
Anna Reynolds @annareynolds.bsky.social
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
Dr Jennifer Redmond @jenniferredmond.bsky.social Assoc. Prof in Irish History, Chair of HIDDEN COST Action CA21120, interested in all things citizenship, identity documentation, history, women and gender
Maria Cannon @mariacannon.bsky.social Historian of the family, life cycle, and emotions in early modern England currently working on life in blended families. Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth
Maisie Jepson (she/her) @girlinthewrongera.bsky.social 📚MA History graduate and independent researcher.
Interested in gender, social and cultural history, told through fashion, textiles and oral histories of women.
Usually chatting about banners and all that jazz.
Mary Fraser @maryfraser19.bsky.social Police historian.
Louise @louisebonvalet.bsky.social 🧙🏽♂️🔮 Male and female witchcraft in Early Modern Italy
FBK ISIG
Venetianist specialista dei cinq schei de mona
Projet ANR DEFI : https://anrdefi.hypotheses.org/
Féministe transnationale 💜
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Dr Tanya Rideout (Hawkes) @tanyabluedog.bsky.social Historian on working-class lives, environmentalism, health. PhD coal gas, pollution & heritage. I also do radical HR systems to humanise workplaces. She/her. 🐇🏴
https://substack.com/@tanyahawkes
Dr Vicky Nagy @drvnagy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Tasmania
Research interests: gender + history + crime, CSA prevention, SXA, VAW prevention. Cairn Terrier & cat aficionado. Horse mum.
Tegwen Hammersley @thammersley.bsky.social PhD student
Industrial heritage, communities, and new towns.
Beck Heslop @beckhistorian.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 they/them
🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester
♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑🦯➡️ #DisHist
🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together
Oliver Betts @drolibetts.bsky.social National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
Amy Thorpe @acthorpe.bsky.social PGR Northumbria ⭐ Leftist / histories of gender, visual and periodical culture, emotion, femininity and identity / museum and heritage enthusiast ⭐ BSL learner 👍
Views and grammatical errors my own.
Jude Rowley @juderowley.bsky.social
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance.
Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh
Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions
agent: @WatsonLittle
Tanya Cheadle @cheadletanya.bsky.social Lecturer in Gender History at University of Glasgow. Research: sexual radicalism, esotericism, masculinities at Victorian fin de siecle. Based in Glasgow.
Lenka Skoupá @lenkaskoupa.bsky.social Doing a PhD. in disability history from legal sources of Justinian.
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Henrice Altink @henricealtink.bsky.social Professor of Caribbean history at the University of York. I work on the intersection between social inequalities and environmental /climate change in Jamaica post-1945.
Antoine Paccoud @douccap.bsky.social Geographer at LISER, Luxembourg. Works on the libidinal economy of land and housing, buy-to-let gentrification, Badiou, Lacan, Deleuze & Guattari. More words here: https://propertiedperversity.wordpress.com/
Dr Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social Research Associate in histories of wild swimming @ Newcastle University
Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social Sometimes pirate, othertimes historian.
Records Specialist (Early Modern Parliament) at The National Archives UK. Views own &c
Curator of REVOLUTION 250 exhibition - now OPEN at The National Archives!
Tosh Warwick @toshwarwick.bsky.social Heritage Unlocked historian, heritage consultant, author, Researcher at the University of Sheffield. Historical contributor on TV, radio and newspapers on industrial heritage, urban history, football history and Middlesbrough FC!
Dr Samantha Shave @samanthashave.bsky.social Welfare Historian | Researcher | Writer | Public Engagement
www.samanthashave.com
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @eschlappa.bsky.social Historian of 17th-18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Precarious ECR. Powered by tea, feminism and florid 18thc prose. Views mine.
Shannon Devlin @shannondevlin.bsky.social Historian of siblings, the family, gender and sexuality, and 19th-century Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway. All my own thoughts. She/her
George Gosling @gcgosling.bsky.social Historian of charity, community and campaigning. First book on pre-NHS hospitals, next one on charity shops.
(Gosling-Page non-professionally)
Retail & Community https://tinyurl.com/ykh32nff
Payment & Philanthropy https://tinyurl.com/4h5h5w5k
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
Historic Footsteps @historicfootsteps.bsky.social Clare Hopkins, Qualified Genealogist. Sharing history tours with a genealogical focus on YouTube https://youtube.com/@historicfootsteps?si=j147QLicxoFly00F
Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social Scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history
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.
Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
Australian Convict & Colonial Research - London @ozconvictresearch.bsky.social London based group - convicts transported from Britain & Ireland to Australia 1787 - 1868 + colonial era to 1901 & beyond
Current project: Transported Female Convicts of Westminster
Come on a tour to support our work: https://echoesofoztours.wordpress.com/
Rebecca Menmuir @rebeccamenmuir.bsky.social Darby Fellow (Simon and June Li) in English Literature at Lincoln College, Ox. Interested in the medieval Ovid, forgeries, exile, Chaucer, Gower, medievalism.
Natasha Anson @natashaanson.bsky.social Collaborative PhD student (Durham) & museum person (Beamish) researching nostalgia and working class heritage, interested in all things open-air museums/heritage/memory 🪩 she/her, views own, sporadic skeeter
Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network (ACNZSN) @acnzsn.bsky.social Created and Managed by @drjatindermann.bsky.social.
Micaela Panes @dwi-micaela.bsky.social PhD in Labour women’s activism c.1920-60s @CardiffUni 🏴 | Publicity @llafur.bsky.social 💻 | Former Vice President Postgraduate Students @cardiffstudents.bsky.social 📢 |Personal account
Heather Nowlan @ftsgenealogy.bsky.social Heather Nowlan - Professional Genealogist at Family Tree Searchers; Vice Chair - Board of Trustees for Society of Genealogists; AGRA Associate
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
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
Dr Lucy Huggins @lucyhuggins.bsky.social Digital Humanities person | Historian of C18: maritime communities, labour, poverty, identity | Research Fellow at University of Southampton
Dr Natalee Garrett @nemgarrett.bsky.social Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Rep'd by Perez Literary & Entertainment. https://linktr.ee/natalee.garrett
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Amber Flood (Ní Mhaoltuile) @amberflood.bsky.social History PhD student. Interested in associational culture and knowledge exchange. Funded by the SWWDTP / AHRC. Based at the University of Exeter & Devon and Exeter Institution.
I won't bore you with my other interests.
She/her
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Dr Imogen Knox (she/her) @imogenknox.bsky.social Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick