- B Ben @benbeach.bsky.social left politics, football, literature, film. all views my own.
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
Andrew McCabe @kraxis.bsky.social In matters of cruelty, it must be said
A landlord will pick your bones before you’re dead
Abi Baker @abibaker.bsky.social Museum archaeologist. Likes making things and colourful video games.
Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s First Exhibition https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/troy-on-display-9781350191365/
abigailbaker.co.uk
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
Substack https://substack.com/@willd10
Williamdavies.blog
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
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.
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
——
Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
Holly Bird @holly-bird.bsky.social • PhD student researching prison expansion at Uof Glasgow @uofgsociology.bsky.social
• fellow @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social
• formerly researcher at @cycjscotland.bsky.social / research & policy at @stopwatchuk.bsky.social
https://holly-bird.co.uk/
Peregrine falcon fan @nrgsrhc.bsky.social a gritty dose of reality from some idiot who doesn’t know anything
Annabel Grace Gee @annabelgrace.bsky.social Museum professional and PhD student at UCL - Museum Studies, Mad Studies, Critical Disability Studies
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Dr Rosamund Lily West @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social Lecturer | Historian | Curator
Lecturing @unioftheartslondon and @westdean | PhD on post-war LCC sculpture and housing @KingstonSchArt | Fellow @RoyalHistSoc (she/her)
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social 🌍 Official Bluesky account for the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King's College London, consisting of 11 academic departments. #KingsArtsHums
kcl.ac.uk/artshums
Linnea Wallen @linneawallen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology | Researching memory work in museum community engagement activities | (she/her)
📍Glasgow
Megan @meganfoodhistorian.bsky.social Food, Culinary, and Social Historian. Multidisciplinary Approach. Experimental and Historical Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Cultural Heritage, Nutrition. www.myhistoricaltable.com
Mark Liebenrood @markliebenrood.bsky.social Historian, mostly museums. Postdoctoral researcher at Birkbeck 2023-2025 (https://mapping-museums.bbk.ac.uk/museum-closure-in-the-uk-2000-2025/).
Personal website: https://markliebenrood.com/
Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social Historian of play | PhD | @ihr.bsky.social Fellowship | Game developer | Writer & narrative designer - Thousand Hells, Amberspire, Neurocracy & more | Currently working on a secret thing
Repped by Will Francis at Janklow & Nesbit
she/her
Dr Summer Rose Austin @summeraustin.bsky.social Archaeologist researching cultural heritage crime, looting, trafficking, il/licit markets, museum ethics and law | 1st Gen PhD from @uclarchaeology.bsky.social | she/her
No one is illegal on stolen land
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Richard Haviland @rfhaviland.bsky.social Former civil servant, enjoying the freedom to speak my mind. Published in Times, Byline Times, Bylines Scotland, West Country Voices. Member of European Movement in Scotland.
Lenny Hodges @lrhodges.bsky.social Historian of the early modern world. Postdoc at Durham. Associate Editor for French History. Also pottery.
Alina Nowobilska @ww2girl1944.bsky.social Historian of Poland in WW2. Specialising in Poles in Auschwitz, & the #WarsawUprising. Now running history tours in Poland! Check out my podcast "Moments in Time: WW2 Edition"
#biker
Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social Artist & writer. History & art buff. Museum of Photocopies. Quietus. Guardian. Observer. Louder than War. WORM, Rotterdam. Leiden. Write about music, NL, & my family history. #MDANT. 3rd book out March ‘27 https://linktr.ee/richardfoster
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social #1 Sunday Times bestselling author, because apparently that matters. New Statesman, New World, Oh God What Now, The Newsletter of (Not Quite) Everything, Paper Cuts (RIP). Londoner. *Not* an American.
Dr Seth Thévoz @seththevoz.bsky.social Historian, writer, immigrant, FRHistS, podcaster, right eyebrow raiser; UK political finance & global private members’ clubs; http://linktr.ee/sathevoz; Latest book: ‘London Clubland: A Companion for the Curious'. clubland.substack.com
ali @wormpavement.bsky.social she/her
Andrew Male @andrewmale.bsky.social Writer and arts journalist. MOJO, Guardian, and The Sunday Times. Sight & Sound's TV columnist.
Sight and Sound magazine @sightsoundmag.bsky.social Established in 1932. Published by the British Film Institute. Home of the once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time poll
Follow us on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/sightsoundmag
Kirsty Sedgman @kirstysedgman.bsky.social Doctor of Audiences 🎭 🎥 📚 Author of #OnBeingUnreasonable with @FaberBooks: http://bit.ly/unrea. Agent JP Marshall, she/her, opinions: model’s own
Dan O’Brien @drdanobrien.bsky.social I am a lecturer in Film and Digital Media. My research publications span across: Film, Television, Video Gaming, Digital Performance and Video Essaying.
https://vimeo.com/user107379730
https://criticalcommons.org/user/DanOB1/media
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Michael Richmond @sisyphusa.bsky.social Co-author of Fractured: Race, Class, Gender & the Hatred of Identity Politics (Pluto Press, 2022) and Fascism & the Women's Cause (Ebb, 2025).
Pete Mitchell @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social Heritage at @nenature.bsky.social
'Nature's Cure in Times of Need': collecting stories of how nature has helped you get through hard times, generously supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund
Writing stuff is over here: @pdkmitchell.bsky.social
Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in 🏃💗 🦭🕊📚🏊♀️ 🌹 🍉
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
Rob Draper @draper-rob.bsky.social 🎙️Co-host It Was What It Was https://podfollow.com/1745066482
📰@guardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/profile/rob-draper
📕Author Dear England, The Real Story of the Three Lions Rebirth https://geni.us/DearEngland
Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social Lecturer in health geographies at Bristol, treasurer of RGS Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Group; interested in activisms and feelings entangled in welfare states, "gifted" children, childbirth and trauma, participatory art.
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
Dr Claire Robinson @mcrclaire.bsky.social Cultural and social historian of 19th and 20th Century. Mostly researches Victorian and Edwardian theatre and periodicals in Manchester. Historical Pantomime. Public Engagement. Fashion and costume history. Arty stuff. Foodie. Nature. 
Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social Memory, politics, critical theory, literature & sushi. At home in Berlin & Los Angeles. Author of Multidirectional Memory: Remembering the Holocaust in the Age of Decolonization and The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators. 
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)
Claire Titley @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social Archivist. Shropshire lass in Leytonstone. Interests include London history, books, hills, art, architecture. 🐈⬛ 🇵🇸 
Nikki Fairchild @nikki-fairchild.bsky.social Professor of Education and Creative Research. Interested in place-spaces and post-philosophies 🌿
Harry Stopes @harrystopes.bsky.social Historian and journalist. Writing a book on the history of prison. Mancunian in Berlin. www.harrystopes.com for work, and www.harrystopes.substack.com for somewhat work-related musings.
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Harriet Palfreyman @harrietpalfreyman.bsky.social she/her.
Lecturer in Science and Health Communication at the University of Manchester. Visual cultures, surgery, sci fi and sickness. Lapsed historian.
Nicky Bandini @nickybandini.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster and presenter. The Guardian, ESPN, BBC & more.
The Diasporas Speaking Podcast @diasporaspeaking.bsky.social A trilingual & critical diaspora podcast series chronicling Kosovar, Albanian & Balkan diaspora histories. Curated by Rina Limoni
www.diasporaspeaking.com
https://linktr.ee/diasporaspeaking
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
Samira Ahmed @samiraahmed.bsky.social NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn, The Singular Life of Aria Patel. Nat'l leadership team Authors Against Book Bans
www.samiraahmed.com
Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social Modern historian at Birkbeck, working on UNRRA, relief & humanitarianism, internationalism. I edit the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series & direct the Centre for the Study of Internationalism.
Beth Wyatt @wyattbeth.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Britain. PhD researcher in First World War studies. Interests including film and TV, gender, emotions, country houses. Also interested in Korean history and culture.
The Bunker podcast – News without the nonsense @bunkerpod.bsky.social Your morning primer on news, politics, economics, culture and current affairs – five days a week.
Listen here 📳 https://linktr.ee/bunker_pod
Support us on Patreon 💷 https://www.patreon.com/bunkercast
amyareyouok @amyareyouok.bsky.social 
Freya Sackvillle West @fsackvillewest.bsky.social She/her
Conservator
Interested in critical heritage studies, memory and cultural history
Views my own etc.
Kate Jarman @ermerlindaj.bsky.social Archivist, misanthrope, haver of opinions. Posting archives, history of medicine, music, cats, kids, South London goings-on. she/her.
If you like this, you'll love https://bsky.app/profile/bharchives.bsky.social
Owen Gower @owentg.bsky.social He/him | sometime historian of medicine (vaccination + smallpox) | museums + heritage | folk tales + music | resilient + empowered communities | climate action | anti-capitalist solutions | ever hopeful | rooted in rural Gloucestershire | owengower.co.uk
Cursed Objects podcast @cursedobjectsuk.bsky.social A podcast about pop culture, history and tat - like a cursed show and tell, with @kasiatee.bsky.social and @danhancox.bsky.social
Journal of War and Culture Studies @jwcsjournal.bsky.social Interdisciplinary and international in scope, the Journal of War and Culture Studies emphasises cultural histories and cultural production as significant forces that have shaped experiences, representations and memories of war.
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
Anne-Marie Angelo @dr-ama.bsky.social Historian at University of Sussex: transnational race, gender, imperialism, migration C19-20. TV writer. Daughter, aunt, Shawn's sister. She/her. Hove/Virginia Beach. Own opinions.
Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng FRSE.
Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum 
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social Military Historian, author and Battlefield Guide. Occasional wargamer. Host of the Old Front Line #WW1 #podcast.
www.oldfrontline.co.uk
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social 
Prof Anna Whitelock @profannawhitelock.bsky.social Dean of School of Communication & Creativity @CityUniLondon ; prof of history of modern monarchy; broadcaster. Distinguishing features: curly hair, red shoes.
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
Simon Willmetts @swillmetts.bsky.social Cultural historian with an interest in secrecy, intelligence agencies, and their impact upon wider culture and society. I work at Leiden University, but my views here are my own.
de Lacey @delaceymusic.bsky.social DJ. Pianist. Writer. Assistant Professor.
Media, War and Conflict @mwcjournal.bsky.social Media, War & Conflict is an international, peer-reviewed journal that maps the shifting arena of war, conflict and terrorism in an intensively mediated age.
Ángel Alcalde @angelalcalde.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.
With a forthcoming new book on the global history of fascism!
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
Keiran Goddard @keirangoddard.bsky.social Writer.
Museum Ethnographers Group @musethnogroup.bsky.social MEG is a UK-based international collective and subject-specialist network, for anyone interested in caring for global cultures collections.
Web: https://museumethnographersgroup.org.uk/
Jacinta Mallon @jacintamallon.bsky.social 🏡 historian, generally thinking about home/emotion/war
🏰 currently doing collections management at the Keep Military Museum
🎓 PhD from UKC, also previously IHR
Sam Jolley @sjolley.bsky.social Professional curator, amateur human. Views are my own, and usually mediocre.
Dr Hannah Wilson @drhannahw.bsky.social MA, PhD, AFHEA. Lecturer (NTU) and Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Manchester with focus on Holocaust studies, material culture/transgenerational memory, and Sobibor Death Camp. Outreach Officer for Generation 2 Generation.
Emily Jayne @emilyjs.bsky.social Lecturer in History, Uni of Winchester. Histories, memories, and representations of forced migrations. Interested in public history theory and practice.
Emma Kay, Author, Historian, FRHistS, Archaeologist @museumofkitchen.bsky.social Doing Things The Old Way - Historian,Author, Archaeologist with food specialism.Fellow of Royal Historical Society. Online Archaeology Tutor.
Links: https://www.facebook.com/oldway2 YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnTyhFgdStZBUTkSxu0qTMQ
Kaja Marczewska @kajamarczewska.bsky.social Special Collections @UCL // also writing about the small press, grassroots publishing, and alternative cultures of knowledge production // This is not a copy (2018) / The Contemporary Small Press (co-ed) (2020) 
Kate Knowles @katiebellknowles.bsky.social 
Peter Scott Reid @peterscottreid.eurosky.social user researcher
Cambridge, UK
he | him
banner is Composition 8: https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1924
Felix Fuhg @felixfuhg.bsky.social Historian working in different fields and with different formats of history-telling since many years. My goal: pushing the disneyfication of cultural institutions and the way we tell history
🏰🐭🪄
Running eCommemoration programme at Koerber-Stiftung
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Fabio Simonetti @fabiosimonetti.bsky.social Assistant Professor in European History at Maastricht University.
European History and Politics, military occupation, and museum studies.
Author of Encounters in Wartime Italy: A Social History of Invasion, Liberation, and Occupation (OUP, 2025).
Lucy Mort @lucyhbmort.bsky.social Principal Research Fellow at IPPR. Work on migration and cohesion. Care about creating a fairer and more just world.