Kate Teltscher @kateteltscher.bsky.social Cultural historian and writer. Author of Palace of Palms, a Times and New Statesman Book of the Year.
https://kateteltscher.com/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
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)
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 Historian of 20th century Britain / PhD researcher in drug history (from Sept ‘26) / Author of Mudlark’d (Princeton University Press)
@oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social
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.
Hsozkult Service @hsozkultservice.bsky.social Hier finden Sie alle Stellen- und Stipendienausschreibungen, Ankündigungen von Studiengängen sowie Hinweise auf neue Zeitschriften-Hefte.
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
jannon @jannste.bsky.social jannon at the old place
Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social Prof of contemporary history, University of Glasgow.
Mum.
Left feminist.
Belgian/Italian/Scottish/Swiss.
Thalassophile.
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
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).
Carla Vilhena @cifccv.bsky.social
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
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/
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General Editor, Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
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
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.
Charlotte Clarke @charlietylxr.bsky.social Student of 20th Century Children & Care. Legacies of Empire in the British Care System. Sometimes puts thoughts to screen.
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.
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
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.
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
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.
Mariela Neagu @mariela2025.bsky.social
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
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/
Elaine Farrell @elainefarrell.bsky.social Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook
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/
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 💫
Freud Museum London @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
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
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
SHCY @shcy.bsky.social Society for the History of Children and Youth - est. 2001 - international and interdisciplinary - shcy.org
🇨🇦 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.
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
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
Nursing Clio @nursingclio.bsky.social A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
nursingclio.org
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
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
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 Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast.
Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize
Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary
Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
Sanne Muurling @smuurling.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Social History @ Radboud Uni | History of gender, social inequalities, crime, death & disease | Editor TSEG & HISFAM | 📚🎮 🗺 🐈
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
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.
Angela Gallagher @amghistory.bsky.social PhD candidate 💗Latin/Quechua queer and here. SUNY UB History . Eugenics, History of Medicine and Gender 💕 Adoptee.
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
Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood - a centre established in 2003 to promote research into the history of children, youth and childhood. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood
@foundlingmuseum.bsky.social @foundlingmuseum.bsky.social
Dr Kate Gibson @kategibson.bsky.social Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain
Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley @sarahannebuckley.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @universityofgalway. Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in CASSCS. Gender, childhood, institutions. Co-author @irelandincolour books. Co-PI Tuam Oral History Project.
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social Professing feminist history, early modern women and queer stuff at King’s College London, History Workshop Jnl and around town.
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
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/
Laura McAtackney @lauramca.bsky.social Working on archaeology, heritage, memory, and knowing the past as Prof in Radical Humanities at UC Cork. Specializes in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean. Unapologetic focus on social justice.
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 \\
Social Science History Association @socscihistory.bsky.social Official account of the Social Science History Association. Supporting social science history since 1974, we host an annual meeting and publish a journal. More about us can be found at www.ssha.org
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.
Eve Worth @evemworth.bsky.social Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.
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
Dr Carmen M. Mangion @carmenmangion.bsky.social historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
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 ⛱
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
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/
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
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
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
Arbeitskreis Kindheitsgeschichte @kindheiten.bsky.social Himmelskonto des AK Kindheitsgeschichte. Alles zu Kindheiten und Kindern in historischer Perspektive.
https://www.historikerverband.de/ueber-uns/arbeitsgruppen/ak-kindheitsgeschichte/
Posts by @martinawinkle14.bsky.social
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
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
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/
Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
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.
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social The GHI London is a research centre supporting and connecting history students and scholars from Britain and Germany. One of 11 independent research institutes of the @maxweberstiftung.de.
Open Mo-Fri, 9.30am-5pm
https://www.ghil.ac.uk
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed