@yihongz.bsky.social @yihongz.bsky.social
Matthew Lloyd Roberts @matthewlloydr.bsky.social writing about architecture
sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com analyst, developer-friendly
black cats, small plates, natural wine
london, east
he, him
Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social Join me for a ramble through 2000 years of culture and history at the heart of old London. www.thegentleauthorstours.com
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
Joe Baubles @joeborges.bsky.social MA World Heritage student, interested in magical objects, museum collections and meaning-making. Formerly British Museum Loans and Exhibitions. (he/him)
Peter Grievous @petergrievous.bsky.social
Rachie PNW @rachelpnw.bsky.social I spend as much time as I can in the wilds of the PNW.
I’m here mainly to follow authors, scientists, journalists, and policymakers.
she/her
jf @jfjfjfjfjfjfjfjf.bsky.social
Christopher Deutsch @drchrisdeutsch.bsky.social Historian of moo cows [I have it on good authority that this should be in my profile]. Clinging to academia.
Under contract: Beeftopia: The Red Meat Politics of Abundance in Cold War America.
Views my own.
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Tom Sojka @tomsojka.bsky.social mad, bad, mostly martinis
historian of 20th century britain
writing a book about elite culture, space, and gossip in interwar britain
Mr Judge Frank @h-eg.bsky.social
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
Jack Cox @jackandrewcox.bsky.social PhD History studying convict transportation to America, Australia and within British-Occupied India.
Archives Assistant at Northamptonshire Archives and Heritage Service.
HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK ECR Survey Fellow.
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
@marise85.bsky.social @marise85.bsky.social
Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social Assistant Professor at SFU in Vancouver - previously postdoc on ERC 'Europe in the World: A Literary History 1529-1683' at QMUL (2024-26) - skin and the senses in early modern drama - women's writing - material culture - history of the book
Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social Cities, cycling, planning and play. Often on a bike or in a museum.
Co-host - activetravelcafe.org.uk
Trustee - historictownstrust.uk
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social
ResearchActual @smithhilaryc.bsky.social Human Person. Academic Libraries. Special Collections. Chaos.
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
@robnewall.bsky.social @robnewall.bsky.social
MartyH @mogo-uk.bsky.social To the Left on the political spectrum.
Welsh and pro devolution and a federal Britain.
Interested in what directly affects me, so pro-EU, anti Trump US and anti-monarchy.
Suffered under Thatcher, and hate ALL those parties to the Right.
Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Andrew Riley @andrewriley-001.bsky.social Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Charlie T @charlieturpie.bsky.social Archivist for hire, art/books/music/coffee/cake/buildings rest of the time. Loving new and old things in London and Scotland
Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
Graham Soult FIPM @grahamsoult.bsky.social Retail Cupid 💘, high street champion, Fellow of the Institute of Place Management (IPM), Durham Business Group chairman. BBC: "The North East's best-known retail expert". Slovenščino se učim! https://www.cannyinsights.com/
Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social Sowing seeds 🌱 Making sensations 💫 (Dr, she/they)
Design historian, educator, image maker.
Hong Kong, design history, material/visual/spatial culture, everyday.
@iias.bsky.social Asia in the World Fellow.
https://vivienchan.co.uk/
Zara @zarasaunders.bsky.social PhD Candidate in Australian Media, Gender & Cultural History | Researching print media representations of sexual assault | Reader 📖
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
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 London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
Ed Legon @edlegon.bsky.social Historian of labour/production/trade politics | Textile workers | Heritage and memory | he/him
Tim Cresswell @timcresswell.bsky.social Poet. Geographer.
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Steve Plumb @squaremileguide.bsky.social An accredited Tour Guide providing tours of London by licensed taxi; also bespoke walking tours in the City of London. Liveryman & Past Master Parish Clerk.
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
Catherine McCullough FRHistS @catherinemuseum.bsky.social Museums, maps, social history are my thing! PhD Researcher at Ulster University: EU-funded cross-border museum projects in Ireland. Author: Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Armagh. Sailor and 'enthusiastic maverick' (apparently). Life interrupted/Long Covid
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social Writer, historian, professor. Director @chppc.bsky.social and @vch-home.bsky.social. #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, 2025): a Book of the Year in The Times, FT & BBC History Extra. Find me in my beach hut.
https://www.catherineclarke.info/
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Ellie Brown @elliebrown.bsky.social Researcher, writer. Looking at twentieth-century architecture and design (shopping centres, public art, urban space, interior design).
emadeleinebrown.com
Martin Roberts @martrtin.bsky.social Old metalware and 16thC material culture. Boreray sheep, Border Terriers, hay, logs & Land Rovers. Cricket, mainly Derbyshire these days.
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.
Be Kind, Choose LOVE @bknott.bsky.social Introvert, bookstores and libraries are my safe places. Crazy cat (and dog) lady. Believes that people who weaponize their religion are a danger to civilization.