David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social Human Geographer (retired, sort of);
Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things
Social Market Foundation @smfthinktank.bsky.social Britain’s leading cross-party think tank, with a mission to enable markets and government to work together to benefit society.
https://www.smf.co.uk/ | Also on LinkedIn, X and TikTok
Marc Stears @mds49.bsky.social Political theorist, author, speechwriter, campaigner. Director UCL Policy Lab.
Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (now out in paperback). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social I'm the Guardian's deputy political editor in Westminster.
Story? Email - jessica.elgot@theguardian.com
Signal - jessicaelgot.51
Always #lufc
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/jessica-elgot
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Shit Argyle @shitargochants.bsky.social Signed up to this on my Nokia to impress ladies. Argyle and Argos's top boy. Evergreen Premium. 1/92 plus Wembley
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
No, not *THAT* alvinmsss @alvinmsss.bsky.social Non Ambulant Freelance Sonambulist.
Ubiquitous and yet absent.
Did I tell you about the time Debbie Gibson liked me on Twitter ?
Not Wycombe Wanderers, that would be ridiculous.
Mark Thompson @markreckons.bsky.social Politics (mainly UK and a bit of US), comedy and popular culture more generally.
Hear me on a radio near you blathering about Burnham or Farage. Probably.
Political Sandbox here: https://substack.com/@politicalsandboxmark
Jess Lister @jesslister.bsky.social Higher ed policy wonk @ Public First 
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Lucy Powell MP @lucympowell.bsky.social Labour and Co-Operative MP for Manchester Central | Deputy Leader of the Labour Party🌹| Secretary of State for Education
lucy.powell.mp@parliament.uk
Natalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social Legal academic at Durham University, researching labour law and human rights with a focus on domestic workers, other marginalised workers and issues of gender and migration. Trustee for migrant domestic worker NGO Kalayaan. She / her
Nick Harrison @nickharrison73.bsky.social CEO @suttontrust.bsky.social campaigning for social mobility. Ex- business leader and consulting global practice lead. Proud father of three.
Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Irish | Content Creator - 300k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕
https://theunchartedpast.com/
Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social I teach American history at Cambridge. Views/opinions strictly personal. Content 40% political, 30% historical, 30% cat photos but ratio under constant review
University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk Official account for the University of Cambridge. Follow us for research, news, events and student stories from the Cambridge community 🎓📚
@lennyvalentino.bsky.social @lennyvalentino.bsky.social Art, music, education, politics. 
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Dez @stonyblue61.bsky.social Ex Library worker. Wycombe Wanderers fan. Book and music lover.
Hugh Dickinson @hughdickinson.bsky.social ITV Sport Archive Producer | The Washington (NW3) Pub Quiz Host. Wycombe & Surrey fan. Opinions own & often satirical.
Will Kendall @willkend.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
Rural Spatial Justice @ruralspatialj.bsky.social News & analysis from the ‘Rural Discontent, Disruptive Politics & Spatial Justice’ (Rural-Spatial-Justice) project at Aberystwyth University. Reposts are not endorsements.
Michael Woods @woodszzp.bsky.social Geography professor at Aberystwyth University. PI, Rural Spatial Justice project @ruralspatialj.bsky.social Director, Cymru Wledig LPIP Rural Wales.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Richard Wilson @w2aps.bsky.social @waspsrugby.bsky.social fanatic in my spare time, Design & Product Support @ CAVD.co.uk. Long term Chairboy @wwfc.com
James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social Hallsworth Research Fellow @ University of Manchester | political economy | climate change | green industrial policy | green central banking.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/james-jackson
Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social www.one-place-studies.org – For excellence and enjoyable engagement in #OnePlaceStudies, where #FamilyHistory and #LocalHistory unite. Studying and celebrating places, their people, and their shared histories. Post about your OPS on #OnePlaceWednesday!
Piers Haslam 🌺 @phghaslam.bsky.social PhD student @camhistory.bsky.social | Queer and gender historian | Researching confirmed bachelorhood in England 1880–1960 | they/she
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.
Laura Beers @fieryparticle.bsky.social Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️
Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa
https://linktr.ee/lbeers
Sam Friedman @samfriedman.bsky.social Professor and Head of Department at LSE Sociology, Co-Editor British Journal of Sociology. Research: class, culture, elites, social mobility. Books: Born to Rule, The Class Ceiling, Comedy and Distinction
Hannah Rose Woods @hannahrosewoods.bsky.social Writer and historian. Author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain; currently writing a history of university students. Unlikely cathedral verger
https://smarturl.it/rulenostalgia
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist. 
George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
Christopher Hilliard @chrhilli.bsky.social Challis Professor of History
@sydney_uni. Co-editor @TCBHjournal. Council @HumanitiesAU. Writes about history of censorship, popular intellectual life, racism.
Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social Historian of shopping precincts, derelict landscapes, leisure centres, power stations, inner cities, housing, the Potteries, Telford new town, & city centre redevelopment. @c20society casework & trustee.
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
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
@adamgipki.bsky.social @adamgipki.bsky.social 🎙️Co-Host of @angloitalianpod ✍️ The Quartermen⚽️💙Support @wwfcofficial 🇵🇱 Despairing Poland fan
Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Dr Michael Weatherburn @mrweatherburn.bsky.social Field Leader and Academic Fellow at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social. Works on history, strategy, data.
Founder: Project Hindsight www.projecthindsight.org. Lots more 👉 www.michaelweatherburn.com.
George Elek @georgeelek.bsky.social “You can change your Twitter bio to FSA award winner” - Victoria Derbyshire
Rosa Schling @rosaschling.bsky.social Oral historian researching the history of childcare activism https://childcarehistory.org.uk/ Co-founder of On the Record. Trainer with Oral History Society. Doctoral student at Institute of Education, UCL.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social Chief Executive, The British Academy
Chair, Our World in Data
Board, National Audit Office
Visiting Professor in Practice, LSE
Visiting Professor, Kings College London
Fellow, Birkbeck College
Views my own
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Christian Damm Pedersen @christiandp.bsky.social Historian | Associate professor | University of Southern Denmark | Imperial and postimperial history | British history | Music lover
Liam Ryan @liamryan2788.bsky.social Historian at University of Oxford. Political history, socialism, neoliberalism and the history of the Conservative Party. Finishing a book on the history of British anti-socialism
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences in Britain; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Kevin O'Sullivan @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
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
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
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
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
Dr Catherine Freeman @catgqf.bsky.social Sometimes a girls' education historian, at other times at work down the history mines, finding treasure.
IHR Life Cycles seminar administrator.
Allotment keeper and one of those annoying cyclists who uses cycle lanes and obeys traffic lights.
Buckinghamshire @buckinghamshireuk.bsky.social News and updates from the county of #Buckinghamshire, UK (Bucks) - we originally started this service on another app in 2012 and now here on Bluesky
International Standing Conference for the History of Education @ische-news.bsky.social ISCHE is an academic association dedicated to the history of eduction with individual and institutional members from all over the world.
www.ische.org
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow at KCL, working on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
NGA For Schools & Trusts @ngauk.bsky.social Empowering those in governance with valuable resources & support to shape stronger governance.
https://www.nga.org.uk/
Freddie Whittaker @fcdwhittaker.bsky.social Editor of national education newspaper Schools Week
www.schoolsweek.co.uk
Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social Editor of Tes Magazine
Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of the Centre for Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.
Gurpinder Singh Lalli @gurpinderlalli.bsky.social Professor in Education | @wlvuni.bsky.social | @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social | views my own
Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social Historian of education
Ellie Harris @eleanorrrlouise.bsky.social Education wonk & Midwest emo fan; Head of Children and Young People at IPPR
alisha 马 @alisha-ma.bsky.social she/her | phd historian at @lsehy.bsky.social | researching mary ii’s collections spaces at hampton court & kensington | interested in global material cultures, aesthetics of otherness, and colonial objectscapes c.1600-1800
History Today @historytoday.com 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒎𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒆. Try 3 issues for £5 at http://historytoday.com/subscribe
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 \\
Ruth Davidson @ruthdav.bsky.social Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Polly Smythe @pollysmythe.bsky.social Reporter @londoncentric.media | stories and tips to polly@londoncentric.media | signal: pollysmythe.92
History Education Research Journal @histedresearch.bsky.social HERJ, an international, diamond open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on the global significance and impact of history education. Published by UCL Press @ https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj
HEIRNET @heirnet.bsky.social History Educators International Research Network
Daniel Storey @danielstorey85.bsky.social Chief Football Writer, The i Paper
Read all my work: https://inews.co.uk/author/daniel-storey
Libero @liberopodcast.com A podcast about football, the least important of the most important things, featuring John Brewin, Miguel Delaney, James Horncastle, Tariq Panja, Jack Pitt-Brooke, Rory Smith and Jonathan Wilson.
Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social Academic journal that publishes work on the history of the seven historic Northern counties of England. 
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd (and, relatedly, Humberside). Professor at Sussex.
Nick Davis @nickdavis01.bsky.social Journalist. I hold an MPhil in World History from the University of Cambridge, specialising in the American occupation of Iraq (2003-2011).
The New Statesman @newstatesman1913.bsky.social Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data...
Become a subscriber: https://newstatesman.com/subscribe
Centre for Modern British Studies @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham.
MBS2026 conference, June 3-5 2026. Registration now open!
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
Kieran Maguire @priceoffootball.bsky.social Slightly rippled, with a flat underside
Frithville Primary School @frithvilleprimary.bsky.social Headteacher: Damian Davey
https://www.frithville.lincs.sch.uk
New York Primary School @newyorkprimary.bsky.social Headteacher: Damian Davey
A primary school in Lincolnshire, UK.
https://www.newyork.lincs.sch.uk
Miss Hobbs @hobbs-english.bsky.social English teacher. Celebrating diversity. Lincolnshire. Book lover. Tea drinker. Poetry. Whole school reading. Garden. Coast. Nature. #booksky #NPQSL
Helge Wasmuth @helwasmuth.bsky.social Professor of Early Childhood Education @ Mercy University. Co-author of „Finding Froebel“ and other stuff on the history of kindergarten. ECEC theory and policy. Studied in Tübingen and live in NYC. Husband. Dad of a 8th grader. Still playing soccer.
Jonathan Wilson @jonawils.bsky.social Author of Inverting the Pyramid, Angels with Dirty Faces, The Names Heard Long Ago and Two Brothers. Editor of the Blizzard. Journalist for the Guardian. Co-host of It Was What It Was: the Football History Podcast.
www.jonawils.com
@stevebrown30.bsky.social @stevebrown30.bsky.social