Susan (Sue) Bishop @suezelenybishop.bsky.social Found women's history, changed my life ❤️. Partial to geographical features and urban walking. Former NHS Finance.
👨🏽🍳🤌🏽Chef Don Wallace🍷 @chefdonmichigan.bsky.social Michigan based Chef with a passion for American Fusion Cuisines. Love to make people happy. No judgement just delicious food, fun, laughter and friendship. Great protector to those I love. 🇺🇸 DMs are open.
🌐 www.DiamondSweetness.com
Dr Kathleen McIlvenna @kathleenmcil.bsky.social A lecturer and historian. I work on histories of work and welfare including occupational pensions, occupational heath and family, specialising on 19th century post office and civil service. Currently working on a book looking at retirement before 1930.
Dr Emma Lyons @ehlyons.bsky.social Historian of c17th&c18th Ireland: female inheritance, Catholic landownership & education during the Penal Laws. Also Irish horse racing, and Irishwomen & WWI war effort.
Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of History, TCD.
Website: emmalyons.ie
Emma Melody Bradley @emmamelodybradley.bsky.social Historian of twentieth-century English Mother and Baby Homes and adoption practices
@beyondchaz.bsky.social @beyondchaz.bsky.social Blue-state girl, cares about social fairness, environmental protection, and the little joys in life.
The Dead Sleuth Ancestral Researcher and Storyteller @deadsleuth.com Tee Bylo Hitching. Sleuthing Hawkshaw. Research Fiend, Obit Crafter. Ancestral Storyteller. Writer. TEE TALK Speaker.
Grave Hunter @graveyardsquirrel.com
True Crime Scribe @politetourist.com
Founder @teebylo.com
Dead Botherer - deadsleuth.com
Sue Wilkes @suewilkesauthor.bsky.social FRHistS. Europhile. Author of Regency Spies, A Visitor's Guide to Jane Austen's England, and more. Young Workers of the Industrial Age, out now! Please be kind. https://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Sue-Wilkes/a/1893
Jo Laycock @jolaycock.bsky.social Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Sidelines in histories of Rochdale and of the Manchester Guardian. UCU Manchester equalities (disabilities) officer. Tired.
Gaiutra Bahadur @gaiutra.bsky.social Wrote Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture. Other words in The NYT, The Nation, The New Republic, The Boston Review, Dissent et al. Teach some words, too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K3l6Gqddnj0&t=512s&pp=ygUPZ2FpdXRyYSBiYWhhZHVy
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Joshua D Moore @chinecheremdaniel.bsky.social Official page of CMSgt Joshua D. Moore, the fourteenth Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air National Guard. He represent the highest level of enlisted leadership and is the principal advisor to the Director of the Air National Guard
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Alice Hicklin @alicehicklin.bsky.social Historian of medieval Europe, currently researching trouvères through their representation in documentary culture @ MUSLIVE, KCL. Wolves fan 🐺🐺🐺 embroidery enthusiast. She/they 🏳️🌈
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Hannah Parkes @hannahparkes.bsky.social Social and Oral Historian | Early Careers Researcher | Leeds
Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at McMaster University specialising in histories of environmental health and contamination. She/her
Freya Marshall Payne @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | she/her
Waterstones Gower Street @gowerst-books.bsky.social Europe's biggest new & secondhand bookshop, home to Gower Records, Art Supplies Shop, Fillongley Café and an award-winning events programme. London's local bookshop.
Prue @mspruew.bsky.social Social media girlie at RNIB.
Gender history and dance enthusiast.
Wannabe florist.
Cat wrangler.
Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
Dr Vikki Turbine @drvikkiturbine.bsky.social Left academia for Indie Author life. 🖊️ Non-fiction on Substack🖊️ Fiction as Vikki Jones.
👩💻Chronic illness; motherhood; class; memory; trauma. Qualitative & creative methods. Autoethnography & auto-fiction.
Dr Alexa Neale (she/her) @drlexxx.bsky.social Criminologist. Historian. Researcher. Writer. Talker. True Crime consumer, critic and crafter. Cat-Mum. AlexaNeale.com
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
Drs. Mark Beumer @markbeumer.bsky.social Historian of Medicine | PhD-Candidate Charles University, First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Voorzitter @medhistoddemoulin.bsky.social | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Dr Kat Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social Historian of medical photography, medicine, modern British social and cultural history. Lecturer in nineteenth century British history (Uni of Leeds).
Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher @ University of Leeds. Interested in Britain’s Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 'Liberated Africans', St Helena, Migration and Atlantic History. Currently teaching 'Global Empires'.
The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social ~ all about the archives ~
A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Kate Wilcox @katewilcox.bsky.social Librarian @ihr.bsky.social. Social, art, architectural, landscape history. Often wandering around random places.
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
Frank Finlay @frankjf.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of German, University of Leeds. Former Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures. Chair/Trustee Yorkshire Contemporary, Word Up North, Skipton Music. #bwfc
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Alison Twells @alisontwells.bsky.social History, 'creative history', life writing: www.alisontwells.com
OUT NOW! A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0461
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social English Language & Literature. Quondam Prof. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Helen Goodman @helengoodman.bsky.social Researching 19th-century literature, culture, medicine, & psychiatry ∣ health humanities ∣ mental health & the body ∣ 'madness' & masculinity ∣ gender ∣ history of emotions ∣ grief ∣ domestic abuse ∣ chronic illness & pain ∣ long Covid (she/her)
UK
Ali Bassam Zahid @alibassamzahid.bsky.social Historian of the Greek International Brigades │ University of Leeds.
Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social Postdoc in modern history at Linköping University (@liu.se), currently working on Scandinavian childhoods and the Cold War.
20th century Scandinavia| Childhood, civil society and political cultures| History education and teacher training
Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social Oral historian; cultural history of war and gender.
Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/
Jack Gann @jackgann.bsky.social Historian and curator. Museums, Victorians, and medicine.
Currently curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds
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
Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social Historian of queenship in early medieval England. Based in York UK.
Antiracist. Disabled. Non-binary. Marxist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Author of Ælfgif-who?, biographies of medieval women: florencehrs.substack.com
Agent: @tomkillingbeck.bsky.social
Rhiannon Garth Jones @rhigarthjones.bsky.social Lecturer in Global Medieval History at IMS, Uni of Leeds. Early Islamic architecture & shared traditions of West Asia. General geek, chronically ill, dreaming of boat life again. She/her.
Buy *All Roads Lead to Rome*: https://geni.us/AllRoadsLeadtoRomepb
Oxford Academic @academic.oup.com The official account for Oxford Academic, featuring Oxford University Press's academic news and insights.
Smalls @smalls.bsky.social Law Librarian | OSINT | Privacy Advocate | Competitive Intelligence
“A soul is of more value than work or gold” - George Mellor
I care about the truth.
Follows/Reposts do not necessarily equal Endorsement
Wim Burggraaff @wimburgg.bsky.social Altijd op zoek naar Erfgoedgemeenschappen I RCE I Vechtdal I strips I wil radio presentator worden
Heal the Planet @healamerica.bsky.social Trying to live life with a respect, honor, grace and dignity for all, except the orange turd. World traveler. Medicare for All. Army Veteran. Climate Defender. #FuckTrump #Resist #ProChoice #NoKings #FuckPutin #FuckMAGA
Print Play Protect @printplayprotect.bsky.social We make cool tabletop items :D
Caroline of Kalamazoo @thrawnjanet.bsky.social Scholaria et anachorita aspirans in civitate Londoniensi
Anna Walsh @annaannawalsh.bsky.social Contemporary historian. Interested in migration, cities and towns, visual and material cultures, 20th century buildings, photography, leisure centres, pubs, creative methodologies, Irish and British history and oral history. Liverpool.
Esin PC @esinpc.bsky.social Cinema, cats and witchcraft
@baldwinaxel.bsky.social @baldwinaxel.bsky.social
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
Nimisha Barton @nimishabarton.bsky.social Writer, Educator, DEI Practitioner. Starting fall 2026 Asst Prof at CSU Long Beach. Author of Reproductive Citizens & A Just Future w/Cornell University Press. Co-President of Coordinating Council for Women in History. Rogue scholar. Rage writer.
@matttbaines.bsky.social @matttbaines.bsky.social
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Amanda @amandastafford.bsky.social Accidental academic - underground newspapers, movies, yoga, all too infrequent writing, plants. 🌱 militant FE lecturer & PGR in US History at the University of Leeds. Green Menace.
Bridget Cox @bridgetkcox.bsky.social
Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds @leedsims.bsky.social The Institute for Medieval Studies at Leeds is a major centre for interdisciplinary medieval studies. Home of the International Medieval Congress and the International Medieval Bibliography. https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/medieval
Madison Bureaucrat @msbureaucrat.bsky.social Woke, human, retired glorified state service paper-pusher, happily surfing the daily reactions to the comedy that is government, working on my YouTube channel, and lending a helping hand or shoulder whenever and wherever I can.
treeskulltown @treeskulltown.bsky.social Artist Author • Make Subrealism • https://treeskulltown.com • Handmade art 🙌 : mixed media animation • Art for peace > culture against fascism 🌈
Gabriëlle La Croix @lacroixgabrielle.bsky.social Historian / PhD fellow at IN THE SAME SEA, University of Copenhagen / Family & Inter-island connections / Dutch & Danish in the 18th c. Caribbean
James Reath @jamesreath.bsky.social writer + researcher //
Wellcome Early-Career Research Fellow //
Anexact Form & Modernist Culture (EUP: 2025) ///
WIP: Molecular Dreamworlds
@thomasolsen18.bsky.social @thomasolsen18.bsky.social
Elena Mary @elenamary.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck.
https://elenamary.co.uk
https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2024.2423428
Katie Milliken @katie1973.bsky.social Historian of law, lawyers and modern Britain.
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
https://selenadaly.com
Deanna Lyncook @deannalyncook.bsky.social PhD: Caribbean children in the British colonial education system, 1940-1985. @QMUL History. Podcaster: The History Hotline. Isaiah 54:17 🇯🇲
HMML @visithmml.bsky.social The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) photographs, catalogs, & provides access to manuscripts—partnering with more than 1,500 libraries worldwide to preserve & share handwritten history. Learn more: hmml.org