Alice Kadri @alicekadri.bsky.social PH Registrar
Commercial Determinants of Heath
Public Mental Health
Anthony May @dranthonymay.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology at BCU. I mainly research in sport.
International Centre for Sports Studies (CIES) @sportcies.bsky.social Creating an impact on the way sport is managed worldwide. Research, Education, Consulting. Based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
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
@ijhs.bsky.social @ijhs.bsky.social
Dr Alexander Jackson @dralexanderjackson.bsky.social Curator @nfmofficial.bsky.social Former utility DEF. Views my own.
2023 Lord Aberdare Literary Prize Winner for Football's Great War by Pen & Sword.
History of Advertising Trust @historyofads.bsky.social The History of Advertising Trust - the largest archive of UK advertising in the world. Search our catalogue: http://bit.ly/2xQLOAN
Matt McDowell @handle.invalid Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @morayhouse.bsky.social. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. Not an athlete. Very unfashionable. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com
Andrew Burchell @andrewburchell.bsky.social Historian of UK but living in Sweden - working on stammering, patient organisations, diabetes and rheumatism. https://www.actdisease.org/
Kanske kan vi prata svenska?
Mass Observation and Frågelista fanboy. He/him.
The Polyphony @the-polyphony.bsky.social To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome.
https://thepolyphony.org/
Leeds Centre for the History and Philosophy of Science @hpsleeds.bsky.social Established in 1957 at the University of Leeds. We are a group of researchers exploring the development and meanings of science, technology and medicine.
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
Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social Historian of sometimes medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about long illness, mental ill health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺
Views own
she/her
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Duncan Wilson @duncanwilson78.bsky.social https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/duncan.wilson
Kelly S. O'Donnell @kellyodonn.bsky.social History person. Clover’s dog mom. ☘️ Definitely not that journalist of the same name, so I am begging you please don't @ me.
Caroline Rusterholz @carorusterholz.bsky.social Ass. Prof. Graduate Institute, Geneva
Prof Social History, Fribourg University
History of sexual and reproductive health, reproductive politics
She/her. Breast cancer survivor
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
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
Caroline Marley @carolinem4g.bsky.social Scottish, European, mother of four girls
University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Changing the world since 1451 🌍 | #TeamUofG #WorldChangingGlasgow https://www.gla.ac.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 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.
Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social
Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest.
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 \\
International Centre for Sports History and Culture @icshc.bsky.social The International Centre for Sports History and Culture (ICSHC) is based at De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom.
We are the world's leading research centre for the study of the history of sport.
Cambridge Modern British History Workshop @cammbhw.bsky.social The Cambridge Modern British History Workshop is open to postgraduate students working on any topic related to the history of Britain, Ireland, the British Empire and the Commonwealth since 1750.
Convenors: Rob Kelsey, Lis Riveros and Adam Pountney
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social https://academic.oup.com/tcbh
Modern British History publishes peer reviewed work in modern British history. We skeet our articles, reviews, and the latest British history news. Formerly 'Twentieth Century British History'.
Joe Spillane @spillanejf.bsky.social Drug-involved historian.
david herzberg @dhbuffalo.bsky.social historian of drugs/pharma at university at buffalo-suny
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.
MancHSTM @manchstm.bsky.social We are the Centre for the History of Science, Technology & Medicine (CHSTM) at the University of Manchester. Follow us for updates about seminars, events, research, teaching. Currently posting: @ctimmermann.bsky.social
https://www.chstm.manchester.ac.uk
American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. #histmed
CSTMS - Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society @cstms.bsky.social Exploring the intersection of science, technology, medicine & society through interdisciplinary research at UC Berkeley. Community for STS, the History of Science, Medicine and Technology, and Medical Humanities. https://cstms.berkeley.edu/
HSTM Network Ireland #HSTM @hstmnetworkireland.bsky.social History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network Ireland fosters research, teaching & engagement in #HistMed #HistSci #HistTech #HistSTM #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HSTM #MedHums #Science #Tech #Medicine #Health #Speirgorm Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
CSHHH @cshhh.bsky.social Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare,
@UniStrathclyde
& @CaledonianNews
Scotland's leading centre for the history of health and medicine 📚💊
https://tinyurl.com/3y2u52bw
Jonathan Reinarz @reinarz.bsky.social Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
Mike Jay @mikejay.bsky.social http://mikejay.net
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Jonathan Sadowsky @jonathansadowsky.bsky.social Historian. Concise.
Erika Dyck @erikadyck.bsky.social Historian of health & social justice. Mostly psychedelics, madness, eugenics and birth control; essentially I enjoy studying who gets to make the rules and why we let them.
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Benjamin Breen @resobscura.bsky.social Associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz, father of a 3 year old and 1 year old. History of science, medicine, technology, drugs, and empire.
Book: https://benjaminpbreen.com/books/tripping/
Writing at https://resobscura.substack.com
Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
Dr Shelby Zimmerman @shelbyzimme.bsky.social Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk Amazing collections and breath-taking libraries. Facilitating research at the University of Oxford.
Readers: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Visitors: visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
History of Wet Dreams @wetdreams-hist.bsky.social SNSF / CMCSS project on the medical history of wet dreams in Switzerland and France (18th-20th Century), University of Geneva, Institut Éthique Histoire Humanités (https://wetdreams.hypotheses.org/)
Posts in French and English
Insta: @wetdreams_recherche
Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social Historian of 17th cent polito-pop, intoxicants and material culture
Now Hon Reader at Uni of Warwick
Formerly Head EM Studs V&A/RCA History of Design
Head of Research Wellcome Collection
Finishing a book and slightly insane as a consequence.
Durham Institute for Medical Humanities @durhamimh.bsky.social Improving health by understanding hidden experience.
Supported by Wellcome.
durham.ac.uk/imh
medhumsplatform.org
Dr Kristin Hay 🔮✨ @kristinwh0.bsky.social Historian of sex, gender and medicine 🪴 she/her
Horror fan ⚰️ tattoo connoisseur 👻 mother of cats (Salem and Binx) 🐈⬛♥️
#histmed #genderhistory #histsex
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
himeshmehta.bsky.social @himeshmehta.bsky.social PhD Student at the University of Warwick - Researching the History of the Psychedelic Renaissance in 20th/21st Century Britain
Zoë Dubus @zoe-dubus.bsky.social English account ! French PhD in history of medicine. Post-doc at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Psychotropic drugs, psychedelics, medicine, 19th - 21st centuries.
Totally woke
Website: https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
Lila O'Leary Chambers @lilachambers.bsky.social Historian of Race, Slavery, Commodification, Consumption, Intoxication in the Early Modern Atlantic | Research Fellow at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. Editorial Board @insurrecthistory.bsky.social
Deborah Toner @deborahftoner.bsky.social Historian; Food & Alcohol History; Music & Growing Things!
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
University of Nottingham Research @uonresearch.bsky.social The University of Nottingham conducts world-leading research, bringing about real change and shaping our future. Ranked 7th in the UK for research power by THE.
University of Nottingham @uniofnottingham.bsky.social The official account for the University of Nottingham. #WeAreUoN
UoN Humanities @uonhumanities.bsky.social Building a community and shining a spotlight on our courses at the University of Nottingham. #WeAreUoN | #UoNHumanities
👉 Classics & Archaeology | History | Music | Philosophy
🔗 https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/school-of-humanities.aspx
Peter Yeandle @peteryeandle.bsky.social Historian of 19/20thC British history, working on cultural histories of war and empire.
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
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
Cultural & Social History @cultsochistory.bsky.social Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
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.
James Nicholls @jamesnicholls.bsky.social Alcohol and drug policy researcher: regulation, harm reduction, culture and politics. Might post about music and other things too…
The Institute of Mental Health @institutemh.org.uk A leading UK mental health research institute
Partnership of Nottinghamshire Healthcare and University of Nottingham
We host MindTech, Research at NottsHC and NIHR ARC East Midlands
https://institutemh.org.uk/
Journal of Sport History @journsporthist.bsky.social Promotes the study of historical, social, and cultural aspects of sports. Published by the University of Illinois Press and the North American Society for Sport History (NASSH): @nassh1972.bsky.social
Sporting Heritage CIC @sportingheritage.bsky.social Working to keep your sporting stories alive.Visit our website for support and info, add your collection & join our networks. www.sportingheritage.org.uk
National Sporting Heritage Day, 30th Sept #NSHD2026
Dr. Heather Dichter @hdichter.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sport History & Sport Management
📚 Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games; Soccer Diplomacy; Diplomatic Games; Berlin Sports
🇺🇸 in 🇬🇧, or traveling somewhere
www.dmu.ac.uk/heatherdichter
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
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.
British Library Events @blevents.bsky.social https://thebritishlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/search/all
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Dr Emily Nicholls @dremilynicholls.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Sociology @University of York. Alcohol, sobriety, veganism, (non)consumption. Current work - no/low alcohol drinks (tinyurl.com/noloyork) and meat substitutes
International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy.bsky.social The forum for dissemination of current research, reviews, debate, & critical analysis in international drug policy. Affiliated: ISSDP & INHSU.
Theo Di Castri @theodicastri.bsky.social Historian of the Social Sciences, Education & Drugs/Drug Policy
Convenor of Post-Prohibition: Research, Pedagogy & Action, CRASSH Network
Junior Research Fellow, Homerton College, University of Cambridge
Sara Black @sarablack.bsky.social I am a historian of medicine in modern France. My research focuses on the normalization of drugs like opium, cocaine, and hashish in French medical practice. https://www.saraeblack.com/
Victoria Afanasyeva @v-afanasyeva.bsky.social Historienne.
Mouvement antialcoolique, établissements de tempérance, projet MALCOF, and so on.
www.france-temperance.com
Drugs: education, prevention and policy @deppjournal.bsky.social We publish peer reviewed, multi-disciplinary research papers, reviews & commentaries on policy, treatment, prevention & harm reduction issues regarding the use of alcohol, tobacco & other drugs. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/idep20
Joanna Kempner @joannakempner.bsky.social Sociologist and Pet Snoozler. Kid Herder and Hobby Hoarder. Award-winning author focused on gender, health, pain, and stigma. New book: Psychedelic Outlaws about pain patients figuring things out on their own. https://bit.ly/psychedelicoutlaws
Toby Seddon @tobyseddon.bsky.social Professor of Social Science at University College London | UCL Social Research Institute | Chair of Release | Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences | Interested in: drug policy, social science, critical theory, history, law and society | www.tobyseddon.com
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Dr Zoë Dubus @zoedubus.bsky.social Docteure en histoire de la médecine. Postdoc au Cermes3, INSERM, CNRS. Psychotropes, psychédéliques, médicaments, XIXe - XXIe siècles.
Site : https://dubuszoe.wordpress.com
English profile: https://bsky.app/profile/zoe-dubus.
Lauren MacIvor Thompson @lmacthompson1.bsky.social Historian of birth control/suffrage/abortion law and policy. Book: "Women's Votes, Doctors' Rights: The Making of the American Birth Control Movement" coming soon with Rutgers UP. Asst Prof @kennesawstate; Fellow @GSU_HealthLaw; @UVa alum
Tobacco Control Research Group @tcrgbath.bsky.social Award-winning team researching tobacco’s influence on policy. Views ours, not the University of Bath. Share info in confidence http://tobaccotactics.org.
Nicotine & Tobacco Research Journal @ntrjournal.bsky.social Official Journal of SRNT: the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social Supporting research to transform life, health and wellbeing. We’re taking on three urgent health challenges: mental health, climate change & infectious disease.
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 Agnes Arnold-Forster @agnesjuliet.bsky.social Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy |The Health Foundation | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
Jules Skotnes-Brown @julesskotnesbrown.bsky.social Historian of animals, health, science, and colonialism. PI of 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health' (Wellcome Trust), University of Liverpool: https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/jules-skotnes-brown
Matthew Smith @healthhistory.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine at the University of Strathclyde. I research mental health, food/nutrition, and immunology/allergy. Cycling, hiking, kayaking, nature, basic income, music, Gaidhlig, Scotland, Canada.
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Carsten Timmermann @ctimmermann.bsky.social Historian of Biology and Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the Humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Urban cyclist (& motorist). Owned by dog. More lucky than smart. 0 attention span. Here privately. He/him.
Dr James Brown @drjamesbrown.bsky.social Erstwhile early modern historian, now professional services at the Uni of Sheffield. Likes: intoxicants; the supernatural, folklore, folk horror; KE/impact; project management; 📸; 🥾; 🏋️. My photography portfolio and blog: https://darkframes.uk/
Dr Anne Hanley @drannehanley.bsky.social #Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums