Aimee Wilson @aimeearmande.bsky.social Modernism, pregnancy, feminism, queer theory, cats. Associate Professor of WGSS at the University of Kansas. Co-President of the Space Between Society.
Julie Patchouly @juliepatchouly.bsky.social Psychologist, Clinical Therapist, Writer, Avid Reader and Lover of Humanity. I am salt and light.
GSFLS | Global Summit 2026 @lgbtqstudies.bsky.social Official account of the 11th Global Summit on Feminist & LGBTQ+ Studies
Uniting global scholars and leaders in gender studies, feminism, sexuality, and social justice.
Berlin, Germany, 24–25 Sept 2026.
https://genderandfeminist.com/
Dr Deirdre Foley @drdeefoley.bsky.social Research Ireland Pathway fellow, Trinity College Dublin.
Researching pregnancy and maternity care in twentieth-century Ireland.
Membership Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland.
Previously: DCU, UCC, Oxford.
she/her
Malcolm Russell @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social PhD researcher at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine focussing on the history of solvent abuse / Author of Mudlark’d (Princeton UP)
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social We are the University of Essex branch of the University and College Union (UCU). Reposts, follows etc are not endorsements.
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Monument Quest @monumentquest.bsky.social Exploring the hidden gems of Transylvania, Siebenbürgen
Daily photos of Transylvanian fortified churches, Saxon villages & castles 🏰🏘️ | History, legends & architecture
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Toronto/LA Documentary Film Festival @docfestival.bsky.social 4 tiers to enhance your film.
- in person fest
- audience feedback video
- podcast interview
- virtual showcase
https://documentaryshortfilmfestival.com/toronto-festival/
https://filmfreeway.com/TorontoDocumentaryFilmFestival
Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social Prof of contemporary history, University of Glasgow.
Mum.
Left feminist.
Belgian/Italian/Scottish/Swiss.
Thalassophile.
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
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
Carla Vilhena @cifccv.bsky.social 
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
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
Prof Deirdre Raftery @draftery.bsky.social University College Dublin | Full Prof of the History of Education | FRHistS | Affls.: University of Cambridge & Trinity College Dublin | author | mother | gardener | sailor | book collector. Writes about 19thC schools/childhood/convents/Irish diaspora.
Dr Kate Gibson @kategibson.bsky.social Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain 
Mariela Neagu @mariela2025.bsky.social 
@madelinejw.bsky.social @madelinejw.bsky.social 
Dr Nicola Sugden @nicolasugden.bsky.social Edinburgh-based researcher looking at data and healthcare.
Formerly history of genetics; genomics; evolution; children; animals; race; minds; brains; psychology /iatry /oanalysis; madness; neurodiversity; disability; bioethics; reproductive technology.
Dr. Elisabeth M. Yang @emyang.bsky.social Philosophically-bent, historian/childhood studies PhD, Wellcome Trust Fellow, history of medicine, material culture/moral babies & children/amateur thespian/tea snob
Based in the School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science at University of Leeds
SELCIE @selcie.bsky.social Scotland's Early Literature for Children Initiative 🦉 Edinburgh University working with Edinburgh Museum of Childhood 🤎 blogs.ed.ac.uk/selcie/about
🌿 NEW EXHIBITION 'Nurture through Nature with Children's Books' @ Museum of Edinburgh 1 May to 7 Sept 2025
Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) @joaesth-phenom.bsky.social Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfap20/
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
A Better Balance @abetterbalance.org Advancing justice in the workplace for women, caregivers, and people with health needs of their own.
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act ✔️
Paid family and medical leave in 14 states ✔️
Paid sick time in 19 states ✔️
abetterbalance.org | 1-833-NEED-ABB
Axiom Veritas @axiomveritas.bsky.social Who knows me better suggests that integrity, intellectual curiosity, analytical depth, pragmatism, and vision are my defining characteristics.
Socratic reasoning compels me to challenge assumptions, and uncover the deeper truths that shape our world.
Maggie Goldberger @suburbangothix.bsky.social PhD Student in American Religions UChicago
Hagioptasia: Perception & Meaning @hagioptasiatheory.bsky.social Exploring the hidden force of perceived 'specialness' - a natural illusion shaping human belief, behaviour, & culture.
https://hagioptasia.wordpress.com
Marshall Beier @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social Researching imagined childhood as a social technology of governance and the everyday militarization of children’s lives; International Relations; Critical Security Studies. Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University. marshallbeier.com
Julia Gossard @jmgossard.bsky.social Assoc. Dean for Research 👩🏼💻 | Historian | Educator | Editor of JHCY | 👩🏼🏫 Pedagogy |
Recent 📚: Engaging Children in Vast Early America (Routledge, 2024); Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success (USU, 2023); Young Subjects (MQUP, 2021)
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).
@josephtony.bsky.social @josephtony.bsky.social 
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social Lecturer #Criminology ⚖
Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own
#Liverpool #YNWA 🇵🇸🇾🇪
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
Laura Kelly @tortietabby.bsky.social Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. Personal views. 🇮🇪🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
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.
SpoonFellas#NAFO NC Gen❌🦋🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🏳️🌈🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰🇦🇺🌈💙democrat 💛 @spoont51.bsky.social We stand together with these nations and the people of these nations 🇨🇦🇬🇪🇲🇽🇲🇽🇺🇦 #NAFO #FAFO .
Prof. Justin Vickers, A.Mus.D. @justin-vickers.bsky.social justinvickers1974@substack.com
Distinguished Professor of Music • Illinois State University • Musicologist • C20 British Music Specialist • Author of “The Aldeburgh Festival: A History of the Britten and Pears Era” (Boydell, fc) • www.justinvickers.com
Charlotte Clarke @charlietylxr.bsky.social Student of 20th Century Children & Care. Legacies of Empire in the British Care System. Sometimes puts thoughts to screen.
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
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
@freeman09718.bsky.social @freeman09718.bsky.social Walking by faith, not by sight, Lover of truth, wisdom, and meaningful connections Always grateful."
SHCY @shcy.bsky.social Society for the History of Children and Youth - est. 2001 - international and interdisciplinary - shcy.org
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk
| Co-Editor History of Education
🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social Historian of forensic medicine and crime at Oxford Brookes University. Cricket lover. Collector of shoes, perfumes and nail varnish.
Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.
Dr. Lara Freidenfelds @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social Historian of Reproduction, Health, and Parenting in America www.larafreidenfelds.com
Current research on history of complicated pregnancies
book: The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
Regular contributor @ Nursing Clio
Kiara Gregory @kiaragregory.bsky.social PhD candidate in MIC, researching Guinness’s Dublin brewery and its employees during the First World War.
Authored, World War One Irish soldiers-Their final testament. CD-Rom.
Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education #academicsky
Sanne Muurling @smuurling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social History @ Radboud Uni | History of gender, social inequalities, crime, death & disease | Editor TSEG & HISFAM | 📚🎮 🗺 🐈
Naomi Petropoulos @n-petropoulos.bsky.social Queen's University Belfast PhD History Candidate specialising in the history of Derry and its shirt-making industry.
Views expressed are my own.
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Dr Caitlín Smith @caitlin-smith.bsky.social PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
Jade Shepherd @jadevshepherd.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain; PhD; writing a book about mentally ill offenders & their families in the c19th; former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University
https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
Claire Phillips @clartyclara.bsky.social PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern British childhood, institutions, the family, welfare. Writing a book on the Foundling Hospital.
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
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
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.
Diana Moore @dmoore26.bsky.social Historian of women's history, nationalism, and religion in the 19th century (mostly Italy and Britain).
Adjunct Asst Prof at John Jay College, CUNY
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist
@erinacean
@erinacean@h-net.social
www.lesleyahall.net
https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Helen Glew @helenglew.bsky.social Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd.
Current projects: history of the marriage bar; women's work in Mass Observation archives
She/her
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/
Research/writing services:
https://helenglew.com
Rees Centre @reescentre.bsky.social We produce research and evidence that enables practitioners, policymakers and the research community to understand and improve children’s social care and education.
Website: http://bit.ly/4lqsjFo
Sign up to our newsletter: http://bit.ly/44pNYYl
Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight) @slowhistorian.bsky.social Considered thinking - Sustainable scholarship - Artisanal histories.
Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London.
Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒
🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
admin: @bethanwatts.bsky.social
Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social