Refugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social The RLI is the only academic centre in the UK focusing specifically on international refugee law | Home of the Refugee Law Clinic | Part of the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://linktr.ee/rli_sas
Centre for Refugee Studies @crsyork.bsky.social CRS at York University is an interdisciplinary community of researchers dedicated to advancing the well-being of refugees and others displaced by violence, persecution, human rights abuses, and environmental degradation.
Forced Migration Review @fmreview.bsky.social We are Forced Migration Review, a world-renowned publication based at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.
www.fmreview.org
Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social Full Prof of Global Refugee and Migration Law, Sutherland School of Law, UCD; ex-Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford; ex-Centre for Fundamental Rights, Hertie School, Berlin. Recent return migrant after two decades.
Jeff Crisp @jfcrisp.bsky.social Posting on refugees, asylum, migration, displacement and borders.
Former head of policy development & evaluation, UNHCR. Now with Refugee Studies Centre and United Against Inhumanity.
jefferyfcrisp@gmail.com
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
Joseph MacKay @lefteleven.bsky.social Canadian in Oz. IR academic. History of international ordering, history of international thought. He/him. Book, "The Counterinsurgent Imagination." https://bit.ly/3h86v4Y
Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
Migration Mobilities Bristol @mmbuob.bsky.social Faculty Research Centre @universityofbristol ๐ New thinking on people, movement and social justice ๐ Blogs, podcasts, conversations. Visit us at https://migration.bristol.ac.uk/
Brendan Smith @bristoldublin.bsky.social Medievalist.
Jed H. Shugerman @jedshug.bsky.social Prof Boston U. Law. JD/PhD History & dad jokes.
5th most-cited legal historian, 2019-23
Book: The Peopleโs Courts. Next: A Faithful President: The Founders v. the Originalists
http://shugerblog.com
http://ssrn.com/author=625422
Jessica @jessharada.bsky.social Writer, historian, and post-doctoral fellow of Mexico, Japan and Asia Latin America ๐ Writing a book on transpacific histories of war, race and mestizaje ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฏ๐ต Interested in 1930s-1940s Mexico; WWII; archives, historical methods and family histories ๐
Alison Phipps แ แแฐแ @alisonphipps.bsky.social UNESCO Chair for Refugee Integration through Education, Languages & Arts at University of Glasgow
Elizabeth Borgwardt @elizabethborgwardt.bsky.social Historian. New to Bluesky. THE NUREMBERG IDEA: THINKING HUMANITY IN HISTORY, LAW & POLITICS forthcoming 2027.
Human rights, legal history, U.S. diplomacy; A NEW DEAL FOR THE WORLD (HUP). Contact: borgwardtelizabeth@gmail.com
IALS @ials.bsky.social Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
ials.sas.ac.uk
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
History Today @historytoday.com ๐ป๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to โunderstand the world and shape a brighter future.
Refugee Studies Centre @refugeestudies.bsky.social The Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, is a global leader in multidisciplinary research on forced migration.
www.rsc.ox.ac.uk
Connect with us: www.rsc.ox.ac.uk/forms/general/connect
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UKโs Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines โ https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net Professor | history of migration and diaspora | citizens' rights | commentator | immigrant | trans inclusive feminist | sheโขthey | my views | https://tanjabueltmann.net
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
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
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
๐๐ฐ๐๐บ No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Fred Smith @fredesmith.bsky.social Career Development Fellow in Early Modern History @ Lincoln College, Oxford | Interested in early modern religious history; exile; transnational history; Catholicism
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
Thomas C Jones @thomas-c-jones.bsky.social Historian | Senior Lecturer at University of Buckingham | British Academy Mid-Career Fellow | Interested in Asylum & Refugees, Political Thought, Transnationalism
Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie @kirsteenmm.bsky.social Historian PhD FHEA FRHistS. Wars of the Three Kingdoms, 1638-1660 and the Jacobities. Book on Covenants and Cromwell out now. http://routledge.com/9781409418696
Dr. T. Flo (Trying to get back on two feet in 2026) @tnflorvil.bsky.social Associate Prof. of History @UNM/Author of Black Germany (2023 @ChLinksVerlag)/ traveler/foodie/griever/working on several projects, including a bio of Black German activist and poet May Ayim/
https://www.tiffanynflorvil.com/
William Poulter @williampoulter.bsky.social History DPhil at St Peter's College, Oxford. Working on livery companies, strangers and integration in sixteenth century London.
Adarsh Badri @adarshbadri.bsky.social ๐ง๐ฝโ๐phding politics: @uqpolitics
๐notes on emotions + belonging + South Asia
๐ฎcurates: http://fuzzynotes.adarshbadri.me
โจblog: https://adarshbadri.me
๐brisbane, australia
Matt Blaszczyk @mmblaszczyk.bsky.social Assistant Prof. at Georgia Law
www.mattblaszczyk.com
Tom Fisher @tomfisher23.bsky.social Teacher; Prison Education; NE London; he/him
dubravka @dubravka.bsky.social architect and educator, programme lead of MA City Design at Royal College of Art, London
minorplanning, spatial literacy, and spatial social contract
some poetry and a lot of music
Jude @judeinlondon.com Writer, Campaigner, Loudmouth. Please hire me I need to pay bills.
Melissa Glass @melissa-glass.bsky.social PhD candidate studying early modern English history at the University of Calgary. Working on the intersection of property law and social status in the 17th century.
melissaglasshistory.com
Jeremy Bierbach @basilok.eurosky.social Antifa lawyer practicing immigration and citizenship law in the Netherlands https://bierbach.nl/en/home-english/ ; researcher on EU citizenship; ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ married to https://bsky.app/profile/stefanmakesthings.bsky.social; trying to get my Pittsburgh accent back
Eilidh Beaton @eilidhbeaton.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. Works on global justice, especially migration & asylum.
https://eilidhbeaton.com
Tom Six @tomsix.bsky.social Scholar of race, politics and performance. https://linktr.ee/tomsix
Elizabeth Harper Neeld @eh-neeld.bsky.social Former literature and writing professor, independent scholar, author, photographer. Commitments: healthy survival of family farms, the rule of law, all books, good soups, all art, nature wherever, the seen and the unseen.
Andrew Jennings @andrewkjennings.com Corporate/securities law professor, Emory University
Host, Business Scholarship Podcast (@busscholarship.bsky.social)
Creator, KFilings (@kfilings.com)
https://andrewkjennings.com // https://kfilings.com
Joe Miller ๐งถ ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ชท @getmejoemiller.bsky.social UGA Law prof, musing aloud. Nerd for history and for network analysis (esp citation networks). Particular interests include i.p. law, general jurisprudence, common law history & method, and fiduciary law.
Team Bloot.
Faculty bio at bit.ly/jsm_bio
Lynsey Black @lynseyblack.bsky.social Doing history, gender, punishment, postcolonialism, borders at Maynooth University. PI on Research Ireland Laureate Award, CONSPACE - Contested Space: Penal Nationalism & the Northern Ireland Border.
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz @igallupd.bsky.social College teacher, Atlantic World historian, Poirot + Morse aficionado
he/him/his
Dominic Dean @drdominicdean.bsky.social Researcher, teacher and author (Killing Children in British Fiction - SUNY Press, 2024).
I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Kazuo Ishiguro, migration, intergenerational conflict. All views my own.
Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social Early modern intellectual history: seventeenth-century academic practice and communication; Georg Calixtus (1586-1656). MA(Research) (Qld Tech.), MBA (Aust. Inst. Mgt), MA (@uu.se). Inclusion champion, former senior public servant. he/him ๐ฆ๐บ๐ธ๐ช๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Catherine Briddick @catbriddick.bsky.social Andrew W Mellon Associate Professor of International Human Rights and Refugee Law @refugeestudies.bsky.social, University of Oxford. Trustee @4refugeewomen.bsky.social. Feminist. 
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 ๐ Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust ๐บ๏ธ Trustee, British Association for Local History ๐ Tutor, Pharos Tutors ๐ Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Sian Broadhurst @sianbroadhurst.bsky.social Urbanism, housing, garden city movement |PhD student at York University | Trustee at Curious Arts and Groundwork SANT
Andrew Muldoon @arjm5184.bsky.social Historian, goalie, not a historian of goalies. Father of goalie. History at MSU Denver. Wartime Calcutta. Usually in the far corner of the rink.
Sara Zadrozny @drsarazadrozny.bsky.social Victorian fiction, female ageing, medicine and culture. Departmental Tutor at the University of Oxford, Oxford Lifelong Learning,
Beth Fuller @bee79.bsky.social Historian (19th century gender & crime) teacher (HOD History NPQSL) food & wine. CCF Royal Navy. Reader. Italy is life. Support teams with bird mascots ๐๐ฆ โฝ๏ธ๐ฆ๐๐ฆ
. Made in Sheffield. Married a Californian. Now an Essex girl. Wednesday til I die. She/Her
Philippe Rygiel @prygiel.bsky.social Modern History professor at ENS Lyon, editor Journal of Migration History, chief Editor Palgrave series on Migration History, part time geek
Deneen Senasi @dsenasi.bsky.social Shakespeare and Donne scholar, Humanities advocate, library and museum acolyte, erstwhile ballerina: "To be or not to be, that is the question . . . "
Douglas Murphy @entschwindet.bsky.social I spend my days in an architecture school
I've written some books
Chatting about music, culture, politics etc etc
Amilia Gillies @amiliagillies.bsky.social CHASE-funded Ph.D researcher @memsunikent.bsky.social | Court scandal and corruption, c.1614-21 | Branch Secretary @canterburyha.bsky.social | Administrator @memslibukc.bsky.social
Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social 15 years of saved tweets.
@tfederman.bsky.social
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Sean Spencer @cicerocantabridgi.bsky.social Byzantine worlds, aristocratic hegemony, and the rituals of power.
Half my lifeโs in libraries, the other in coffee queues.
Eternally optimistic Everton fan.
Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History, Concordia U, Montreal. Spend most waking hours thinking about London riots early 16thc., Dutch immigrants, sex, gender, and the like. Knitster. She/her.
Reunite Families UK @rfuk.bsky.social Fighting the UKโs harsh family immigration rules: the Government can't dictate who we can love in the UK
Join us to say:
Families Belong Together!
www.reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk
hello@reunitefamiliesuk.co.uk
Matteo Besana @matteobesana.bsky.social "Iโm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will" A. Gramsci | Against borders that kill | Antifascismo vivo e militante | longing for the ๐
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social Senior Fellow | German Maritime Museum
Gerda Henkel Research Scholarship
Research Coordinator (on leave) | Prize Papers Project
Lecturer Early Modern History & Games | Oldenburg University
Founder Gamelab Oldenburg | Games in School
Charlie Lutot @charlielutot.bsky.social Histoire contemporaine โ j'รฉcris sur ce que l'รtat fait de ses morts ยท Club de Mediapart, Le Vent Se Lรจve ยท รtudiant en licence.
www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-lutot-1b149223b
Daniel Stein @dstein.bsky.social Lecturer at IMO-IMLI, Malta
Queens, NY Native, Former Delhi-ite (JGLS), Tulane Law Alum
Opinions mine, can be yours for small fee
Doug Nazarian @dnazarian.bsky.social Judge, Appellate Court of Maryland. Orioles, Ravens, good writing, comfort food, dogs. Former state utility commissioner. Maryland via Rochester, NY. All statements mine. 
Taylor Kordsiemon @tkords.bsky.social Dad. Lawyering in Utah. Occasional pretend scholar. Movies. Books.
Lawyer Work: https://www.mc2b.com/taylor-kordsiemon
Pretend Scholar Work: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3465182
Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social Independent scholar. I'm not in academia.
Comparativist.
Former staff member, Princeton U. Library.
Ben Keener @btkeener.bsky.social Aspiring jurisconsult
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=3865326
Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) @feegiconference.bsky.social The Forum on Early-Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) aims to encourage scholarship and collaboration across the boundaries of national histories and disciplinary frameworks. FEEGI hosts conferences every 2 years. https://feegi.org/index.html
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
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
Kevin Matthew Jones @kevinmatthewjones.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine at the University of Nottingham.
Research interests in the history of mental health diagnosis, public health data and cultural representations of science.
Stephanie Wanga @stephaniewanga.bsky.social :) happy human.
african politics, african philosophy, african history, african statehood and anarchy, aesthetics, african everything.
stephaniewanga.com
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Matthew Hurst @mrmhurst.bsky.social PhD @york.ac.uk on the influence of Hong Kong people upon the handover โข Studentship from WRoCAH โข Alumnus of @ox.ac.uk @manchester.ac.uk
Liz Egan @lizegan.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the Caribbean (She/Her).
Teaching Fellow, University of Warwick & RA, Trinity Hall.
ECR Rep History UK & Conference Coordinator Society for Caribbean Studies
Emily Calcraft @emily-calcraft.bsky.social History PhD Candidate - University of Sheffield- Inter-war pacifism. Editorial Assistant @ Immigrants & Minorities Journal.
Teresa Barucci @teresabarucci.bsky.social junior research fellow @ Magdalen College, Oxford || working on the social and political history of mobility in late medieval Europe
Jerry Edwards @jerryedwards.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law at West Virginia University College of Law. Formerly an ACLUFL Attorney. I enjoy writing about free expression, academic freedom, and American history.
All opinions are my own, not my employer's, and are correct, probably.
Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social History PhD at Pembroke College, Cambridge. Specialising in siege warfare during the British Civil Wars. โ๏ธ
Luc-Andrรฉ Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social #archives #data #Dakar #Guyane #Lorraine #Vendรฉe
Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social Lecturer in Caribbean History, Politics & Humanities Training @sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social | Assistant Ed: Citizenship Studies Book: https://shorturl.at/JPH0j | Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa | #digitalidentity #IDsystems Proud single mamma.
Suite (212) @suite212.bsky.social Podcast that looks at the arts in their social, cultural, political and historical contexts.
https://soundcloud.com/suite-212
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Justas Patkauskas @jpatkaus.bsky.social Marie Skลodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Caโ Foscari University of Venice
Research on speculative philosophy, conceptual history & environmental humanities
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when Iโm in Montreal
Olรบfแบนฬmi O. Tรกรญwรฒ @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Chelsea Stieber @chelseastieber.bsky.social Author, Haiti's Paper War, NYU Press 2020
Co-Editor, Haiti for the Haitians, LUP 2023
NOLA <โ> DC
Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social By the books or by the sea. Trying, here and there ๐ค๐
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Eliot Benbow @ebenbow.bsky.social Research Associate at the Institute of Historical Research working on the Late Medieval London Customs Accounts. Formerly at MoLA. Researching Medieval and Early Modern material culture, trade, devotion etc.
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 
William M. Barton @krithemp.bsky.social Greek & Latin | Early modern literature | Uni Innsbruck | sometimes running | ๐