UK Parliamentary Constituencies (since 1885) @parlconst.bsky.social Mapping the changing evolution of the UK's Parliamentary Constituencies
parlconst.org
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social The Friends of The Women's Library support The Women's Library at LSE in acquisition, preservation and education. https://friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS).
No General But Ludd, No Ipswich #10 but Chaplin
Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs
Stuart Jones @stuartjones.bsky.social Researching lost time, Manchester UK 🏳️⚧️
New book: https://tinyurl.com/26fx4h8j
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Anne Etienne @annedecork.bsky.social Academic in drama/theatre and censorship; loves drama, theatre, films, fiction - but not censorship; mother of dog and teen.
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
David S. Moon @daimoon.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics, teaching and writing about politics, ideology and pro-wrestling, with a bit of Wales 🏴 when I can. https://www.davidsmoon.co.uk
@merynbrown.bsky.social @merynbrown.bsky.social 
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Dr Emily Stacey @dremilystacey.bsky.social Account Director, Chelgate | ‘Becoming Thatcher’ Routledge (2026) | PhD on Thatcher as Leader of the Opposition
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
Lauren Pikó @booklearning.bsky.social Sometimes historian, evaluator, writer, researcher. Always about disability justice and lying down. Exhortations for slowness, process, practice.🥄 Views own. laurenpiko.com
Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social Political Ideologies, 20th Century Centre-Right, Neoliberalisms, Thought in Political Parties of UK & DE, Transnational discourses and the conjuncture
benjaminjthomas.net
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Rachael Maskell MP @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social Labour & Co-operative MP for York Central. Working hard for you and York. To contact me Rachael.Maskell.mp@parliament.uk or call 01904 623713
Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social Freelance Historian | PhD on English print trade networks 1600-45 📚 Research Assistant, Historic Towns Trust 🗺️ Trustee, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors 🎓 Co-editor @howtohistory.bsky.social. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Jon Mellon @jonmellon.bsky.social Co-director British Election Study. Political Scientist and Data Scientist. Political science methods/political behavior/causal inference. Posts do not represent employer.
Katie Milliken @katie1973.bsky.social Historian of law, lawyers and modern Britain.
Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures.
https://archives.chu.cam.ac.uk/
Chris Moores @mooresci.bsky.social Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
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)
Edd Mair @edwardmair.bsky.social Historian of slavery in the Native South. Also interested in empires and anti-slavery. Lecturer in Early American History at KCL.
Anna Devereux @annadevs.bsky.social PhD on Doris Lessing's archive: communism, decolonialism & literary practice, University of East Anglia & the Harry Ransom Center, CHASE-funded
interested in postcolonialism and global anglophone literatures
https://mountainsbound.substack.com/
she/her
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Matthew Taunton @matthewtaunton.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature and Director of Research in the School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing at UEA. Co-editor “‘The People‘ and British Literature” (CUP) out now. Writing “The Collective Voice” for Stanford UP. Literature & Politics.
Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social 'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
Grace Heaton @graceheaton.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain 💫 interested in all things women, activism, and religion. Based at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Housmans Bookshop @housmansbookshop.bsky.social Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social The home of Political Studies since 1950. We advance, support & promote the global study of Politics & International Relations. psa.ac.uk
Become a PSA member http://psa.ac.uk/members
D J Lewis @toastfacekilla80.bsky.social Of course, the internet was in black an white when I was a kid. 
Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History at the University of York.
Research and teaching website: jonhowlett.com
Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social He/him. Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at University of York. Books on 'Smell in Eighteenth-Century England' and 'Smell and the Past'. Sniff: A History of Smells out 8th September #smellhistory #smellstudies #sensoryhistory
Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
Left Book Club @leftbookclub.bsky.social ⏳ Est. 1936
📬 A not-for-profit book club for everyone on the Left
📚 Reading groups, events + community
🤜 Join us today! www.leftbookclub.com/join- G Dr Gillian Williamson @georgianfun.bsky.social 18th-century British history especially reading, Gentleman’s Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social Researching histories of anti-imperialism and Black radicalism.
Author of: *Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation*: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4073-making-the-revolution-global
Aidan Beatty @aidanbeatty.com History Lecturer, Carnegie Mellon University // President, American Conference for Irish Studies @acirishstudies.bsky.social
Current research: Capitalism and Irish nationalism
Old research: aidanbeatty.com/books/
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Dr Emma Casey @emmahcasey.bsky.social Reader 📚 University of York. Home cultures and domestic economies.‘The Return of the Housewife: why women are still cleaning up’ out now! https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526170972/
Anna Bocking-Welch @abiedoubleyou.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, activism, charity, everyday politics and international engagement.
She/her
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
Ana María Otero-Cleves @amoterocleves.bsky.social Historian of Latin America at the University of York || Global History || Nineteenth-Century Colombia & Latin America || Consumption & Material Culture || Legal Culture || #Runner. 📕 New Book! Plebeian Consumers (CUP) http://cambridge.org/97810094355c
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
Jennifer Davey @jhdavey.bsky.social Historian and Director of The History of Parliament (@histparl.bsky.social). On substack https://historyofparliament.substack.com/. Views are my own.
Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social Mieskeit; Historical Lexicography & the Emoluments Clause (CUP '25); lexicographer; linguist; Edgeworth; #18thc; #CUNY; #NJ; down the shore; serial commas
Rebecca Brenner Graham @theotherrbg.bsky.social Brown postdoc writing a book on the American Revolution in female millennial pop culture for St. Martin’s www.rebeccabrennergraham.com
Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social Founder of Tax Policy Associates Ltd. Tax realist. @danneidle on Twitter
Leon Trotsky @dailytrotsky.bsky.social Daily (or more) Leon Trotsky quotes.
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
Marzia Maccaferri @marzmac.bsky.social Attempted Political and Intellectual Historian @Queen Mary University of London. Real expertise: James Bond and shoes.
In English e italiano.
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow at KCL, working on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
Dr David Jeffery @drdavidjeffery.bsky.social Senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool. Expect academic work, parkrun/triathlon spam, and graphs. Views my own 🏳️🌈
Book: Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool? Free ebook (& other links)--> https://linktr.ee/david_jeffery
Lee David Evans @leedavidevansuk.bsky.social Podcasting and writing about post-war British politics. Ramsden Fellow at Mile End Institute.
Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America is the largest and fastest growing socialist organization in the USA. 🌹 Posts are not official statements.
www.dsausa.org
Join today at dsausa.org/join
Graeme Bandeira @graemebandeira.bsky.social Winner of Britain's Best Political Cartoon 2025, 2020. Runner-up 2021, 2023, 2024. I also produce bespoke cartoons, caricatures, editorial illustration and pet portraits.
graemebandeira.co.uk
Anna Koch @annakoch.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe and author of Home after Fascism. Interested in histories of home, exile and displacement. Also, dams, floodings, antifascism and Holocaust memory. Just a tad eclectic.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Snarky Puppy @realsnarkypuppy.bsky.social We are a band of musicians playing music on instruments.
Dr Cherish Watton-Colbrook @cherishwatton.bsky.social 📦 Community Research Initiative Coordinator, UCL
📚 PhD in the history of scrapbooking in Britain during the twentieth century.
🚜 Founder http://womenslandarmy.co.uk
Views own.
Richard Vytniorgu @rvytniorgu.bsky.social Researcher / writer / lecturer. LGBT+ belonging | gay culture, sexual identity & wellbeing | autobiography & narrative. Author of Effeminate Belonging.
It's the Marx Brothers Council Podcast! @marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com The preeminent Marx Brothers appreciation forum. Hosts: Matthew Coniam & Noah Diamond. Producer: Bob Gassel. All episodes: marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com. Join The Marx Brothers Council Podcast on Patreon. Now stop following us or we'll have you arrested!
The Woody Allen Fan @thewoodyallenfan.bsky.social Woody Allen is the best living director. Let's celebrate all his films from What's Up, Tiger Lily? to Coup de Chance.
My favorite: Stardust Memories
#WoodyAllen
Hannah Jewell @hannahjewell.bsky.social writer/host of The 7 newsletter & podcast from the washington post | author of silly books | not quite here yet
Anna Sanders @annasanders.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of York. Interested in gender, elections and public policy.
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
@radiohead.bsky.social @radiohead.bsky.social 
Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow @ University of Cambridge // My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN (Verso) is out now 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Jacob Bohé @jacobbohe.bsky.social Research Assistant and PhD Student | The Constructing of Expert Knowledge on German Real Estate Valuation #SFB1288
Ralph Nader @nader.org The official Bluesky page of consumer advocate, author and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader. (Posts by Ralph signed with -R)
Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social Archaeologist | Orienteerer | Wanderer. Professor of Funerary Archaeology at the University of York, specializing mostly in the central European Neolithic.
UCU Left @uculeft.bsky.social Fighting for an active-member led trade union.
https://uculeft.org/
Caroline Slocock @carolineslocock.bsky.social Director of think tank Civil Exchange, expert on government and civil society, political commentator, ex senior civil servant and Private Secretary to two PMs, author of People Like Us and Bad Government, published 30 June. Also on X.
Ariane Mak @arianemak.bsky.social Lecturer in British history, Université Paris Cité
Miners, Mass-Observation and Oral History
📖 En guerre et en grève. Enquêtes dans les cités minières britanniques (1939-1945), Ed. EHESS, 2025
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/mak-ariane-fr/
Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann @benwwk.bsky.social Dr of London's murals & 'the Left', 1975-86; Lecturer; Socialist; OU PSG; UCU; Lambeth TUC
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https://profiles.open.ac.uk/ben-wiedel-kaufmann
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/early-career-network/reading-groups/marxism-culture
Rhodri Lewis @rhodrilewis.bsky.social Literature, ideas, history, the arts | Reading & writing & teaching | Bylines here & there | At work on a life of Frank Kermode | bit.ly/2vbBoIN
Catherine Liu @bureaucat.bsky.social author of Virtue Hoarders, working on a book on trauma culture, cliuanon.substack.com, tennis fan, views all my own, 
Simon Kuper @simonkuper.bsky.social Financial Times columnist, and author of books including Chums, Good Chaps, Impossible City: Paris in the Twenty-First Century, Soccernomics and out in late 2025, World Cup Fever. British and now French too, lives in Paris with wife and kids.
Rachel Collett @racheljcollett.bsky.social PhD on the Merseyside Women’s Movement 1969-1990s + teaching history at University of Liverpool 🎓
Keen rambler, morris dancer, founder of Common Folk Collective 🌞
Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwaf017
Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
Streatham Rovers Football Club @streathamrovers.bsky.social Non-league football club in South London. Proud founder members of the Xtermin8 Rat Poison Football League. #SRFC #UpTheGreyhounds #NeverStopNotGivingUp #TurboMotivation #WhatAClubWhatAnEthos #COYBIPAG #AubergineArmy #ThinkAboutGoals #FootballFamily
Classic.Retro.Modern. @classicretromodern.bsky.social Classic car mag. 42 issues and counting.
W. David Marx @wdavidmarx.bsky.social Author of Blank Space, Ametora, and Status and Culture. Newsletter at http://culture.ghost.io. Tokyo, Japan.
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
Dr Kevin D. Tennent @kevindtennent.bsky.social Reader in Management at the #University of York and general business history expert. Research interests include corporate governance, sport, transport and teaching and learning using history. Opinions expressed are mine, not the University's.
Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann.bsky.social Michigan State political scientist & IPPSR Director; Hooked bookstore/cafe Co-owner; Science of Politics Podcast; New book: Polarized by Degrees
Dr Pauline McGonagle @pgmcgonagle.bsky.social Lecturer in Mod Lit, University of Groningen, Netherlands. Donegalian. AHRC PhD at Exeter/BL on archive of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.@unigroningen@bsky.social
Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social Wordy emigre. Means well. Talks to microphones. Writes. Wokish.
Carlton FC victim. he/him
https://greenworlds.substack.com/
Anne Deighton @annedeighton.bsky.social Emeritus Prof European International Politics, Oxford University. International History. European security
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc