Alex White @alexjwhite.bsky.social Historian-in-public focusing on African anti-colonialism and the global media. Editorial fellow at @historyworkshop.org.uk, freelance everywhere else!
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Rui Gomes Coelho @ruigomescoelho.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Historical Archaeology at Durham University. Decolonial archaeologies of capitalism, colonialism, and resistance in the Atlantic world
Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd (and, relatedly, Humberside). Professor at Sussex.
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.
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social History PhD at KCL on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
Alfie Hancox @alfiehancox.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain and empire, working in Adult Education |
PhD on Black Power and Anti-Imperial Solidarity in the UK at @unibirmingham.bsky.social (completed 2025) |
Contributing Editor of Ebb Books and @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social
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/
Robin Wilde @robinwilde.me InDesign in the streets, Photoshop in the sheets. Creative Director at @wildebeest.design
Londoner, via Vancouver, Seattle, and Sheffield.
Melanie Burkett @melb2001.bsky.social Historian of 19th century working-class immigration in the British Empire & settler colonialism. Author of "Opposing Australia's First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42." PhD from Macquarie Uni, die-hard Duke alum. Mother to a Muppet dog.
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Paul Jackson @pnjackson.bsky.social Professor in the History of Radicalism and Extremism who is particularly interested in examining the extreme right and anti-fascism - he/him. https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/persons/paul-jackson 
Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social We are a grassroots Jewish-Arab movement fighting for peace, equality and social justice in Israel-Palestine.
👉 https://linktr.ee/standingtogether.en
Kian Aspinall @caan2.bsky.social Writing on racial capitalism and fascism. Reader of WEB Du Bois, Cedric J. Robinson, Sylvia Wynter and the histories of fascism and race. PhD @ WSU, postdoc @cambridgesociology ☘️
Fintan Mallory @fintanmallory.com Philosopher at Durham University. fintanmallory.com
Gareth Roddy @grod.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain & Ireland, landscape, regional/national identities, borders, heritage, travel literature. 
Helen Foxhall Forbes @helenfoxhallforbes.bsky.social Cat lover. Late antique / early medieval history / theology / archaeology, especially environment and climate in the past. PI of ERC Consolidator Grant @SSE1K@bsky.social at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia. Despair at the state of the world
sean morley @seanmorl.com its just good stuff really
seanmorl.com
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
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
Mike Slaven @mcslaven.bsky.social Author of "Securing Borders, Securing Power" (Columbia UP, 2022) http://tinyurl.com/yeywvdaa Doing migration politics/policy research, currently @colmigproject.bsky.social. Political speechwriter of yore. Obscure academic in provincial England, AZ guy 🌵
Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
Jon Howlett @jonhowlett.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History at the University of York.
Research and teaching website: jonhowlett.com
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India 
Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social Historian of the social and cultural history of the body, labour, unfreedom, and the market in eighteenth-century Britain.
lAwReNcE bLaCk @lawrenceblack.bsky.social https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or the history of where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
James Vaughan @equusonthebuses.bsky.social Historian of UK-Israel relations, British decline, and propaganda. Hittites. Blues harmonica. Aberystwyth Cricket Club. Just posting stuff that interests me really.
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
📜Special Collections and Archives
🖼️University Heritage Collection
📚University Archives
tinyurl.com/unisheffSCHA
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social Community archive of black grassroots activist and cultural movements associated with John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books, and many others. Testimony to the creativity and resilience of black resistance.
https://linktr.ee/thegpi
Joseph Mulhern @josephmulhern.bsky.social Historian of the British in Brazil. Hon. Fellow, Durham.
Author of 'British Entanglement with Brazilian Slavery: Commerce, Credit and Complicity in Another Empire, c. 1822-1888' (Feb, 2026)
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
Diana Paton @dianapaton.bsky.social Caribbean and global history. University of Edinburgh. New here. Need a photo.
Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social Historian | Head of Collections Research at The National Archives (UK) | Maritime & colonial history | History of science & medicine | Currently researching Royal African Company/Company of Merchants.
Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social Historian of medicine (ish). Parent of small monsters. Enthusiastic Yorkshirewoman in Sheffield. RA in Creative Health at UoManchester. Project Manager at UoSheffield.
Leigh Jones @leighsus.bsky.social Freelance journalist. Investigations, writing, broadcast, newsreading, BBC Radio Newcastle etc
Editor, The Teesside Lead
🔗 https://theteessidelead.substack.com
Moby-Dick podcast:
🐳 @thewhale1851.bsky.social
Teesworks expert. Oh, and once I saw a blimp.
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. 
Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social Historian @ruhistorydept.bsky.social
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
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
Stu Hennigan @stuhennigan.bsky.social Writer, poet, editor, musician.
Ghost Signs (Bluemoose 2022)
Keshed (Ortac Press, 12.02.26)
Disappear Here: Bret Easton Ellis' America (Ortac, 2027)
#MDANT
https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/stu-hennigan
https://stuhennigan.substack.com/
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Rotem Giladi @rgiladi.bsky.social Historian of international law, laws of war, and all manner of political violence
Natasha Anson @natashaanson.bsky.social Collaborative PhD student (Durham) & museum person (Beamish) researching nostalgia and working class heritage, interested in all things open-air museums/heritage/memory 🪩 she/her, views own, sporadic skeeter
Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social Professor of European History at De Montfort University
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/panikos-panayi/panikos-panayi.aspx
Humanists UK @humanists.uk We advance free thinking and promote humanism to create a tolerant society where rational thinking and kindness prevail.
Ross Bradshaw @rossbradshaw.bsky.social Bookseller and publisher at Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham. Libertarian socialist. Scot. That's all you need to know.
Lucas Poy @lucaspoy.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Research fellow International Institute of Social History | Labour and social historian | History of labor, socialism, and internationalism | Latin America |
https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/lucas-poy
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Alfie Steer @alfiesteer.bsky.social Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History.
Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
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/
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Nelson Stanley @notasentence.bsky.social Romany. Angry. Stories in Ogerog Annual #1, Seize the Press, The Dark, Northern Gravy, Weird Horror #9, Old Moon Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, other places...
Trans Legal Project @translegalproject.bsky.social Analysis & commentary on UK law affecting trans people and their rights. Our work is unfortunately suspended at the moment.
Deeply opposed to UKSC/FWS ruling of 16/4/25 & to its blatant exploitation to hurt trans people by the EHRC, the media & others.
38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social People-powered campaigning for a fairer, more sustainable UK 🧡
Start your petition 👉 http://38d.gs/oOo
Media enquiries 📧 press@38degrees.org.uk
Mark Doyle @markdoyle.bsky.social Historian & writer. Britain, Ireland, empire, music. Latest book is on John Cale's Paris 1919 for 33 1/3. Next: histories of African people/music in Ireland. “Pipe-sucking radical” --Mail on Sunday. Views here are my own: my employer has no views.
pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social London radical histories & mysteries. Obsessions: open space, gentrification, strikes, riot, music, drink, spycops.
https://pasttense.co.uk/
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Na'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social We are a movement of Jews in the UK seeking to end our community's support for Israel's occupation and apartheid.
https://linktr.ee/naamod
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
Lort Burn Specials @lortburnspecials.bsky.social Newcastle's occasional night of books, politics and culture
digging countercultural modernism from its grave and watching it punch a police horse in the face outside St James' Park
on Insta as @lortburnspecials, on the fash site as @LortBurns
Tehila Sasson @tsasson.bsky.social historian at Oxford co-editor of Modern British History (OUP). author of The Solidarity Economy (PUP 2024) https://shorturl.at/qxFJ8
Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social Historian of work, knowledge and capitalism (C16-18th) | Lecturer at Uni of Exeter | Author of THE ENCLOSURE OF KNOWLEDGE (CUP, 2022)
Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social Campaigning collaboratively, locally and nationally, to transform asylum in the UK.
Shahnaz Akhter @shahnaz76.bsky.social Senior Policy Advisor at Warwick Uni . Research focuses on Muslim women and colonialism. Come for the politics , stay for the boxing chats. Views my own.
Histories of racialised communities in Britain @historyracebritain.bsky.social Showcasing new historical research on racialised communities in Britain by emerging scholars from racially minoritised backgrounds. Send work for us to share via dm!
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Northumbria IWW @northumbriaiww.bsky.social Northumbria branch of the IWW
Revolutionary animal of the month: leaf slug
Email: northumbria@iww.org.uk
TUC North East, Yorkshire & Humber @tucneyh.bsky.social The Trades Union Congress for the North East, Yorkshire, and Humber region. Changing the world of work for good.
www.tuc.org.uk/neyh
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social Norwich academic/lecturer in digital media/public archaeology/AI/multimedia storytelling/UCU/bassline junkie/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
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
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Rhiannon Firth @rhifirth.bsky.social Grassroots utopias, social movements & pedagogy. Mutual aid & anti-authoritarian organising in/against/beyond capitalist crises.
Tom Miller @tommilleruk.bsky.social solidarity, democracy, cooperation | politics for the public good | safc | views personal
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
-- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to five ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
@kennettaperry.bsky.social @kennettaperry.bsky.social Writer, teacher, historian, thinker
Iron Front UK @ironfrontuk.bsky.social A collective of Britons who campaign for compassionate, sensible policy.
Not as scary as we sound.
Sally Watson @salawatson.bsky.social Cities, cycling, planning and play. Often on a bike or in a museum.
Co-host - activetravelcafe.org.uk
Trustee - historictownstrust.uk
Britain Elects @britainelects.com Britain's leading aggregator for polling, forecasts and election results. Run by @bwalker.uk. Est. 2013 with the late, great, Lily Jayne Summers.
Jamie Callahan @profjamiec.bsky.social Storytelling feminist - learning, gender, emotion & activism. Equity Challenge Project creator. USAF Veteran. Former Co-EIC of @IJMR_BAM. She|Her
Far-Right Criminals @far-right-crims.bsky.social Documenting the criminal convictions of members and supporters of the far-right in the UK.
. All articles lead back to the original news org.
https://far-rightcriminals.com
admin@far-rightcriminals.com
John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk Podcaster.
I do Smersh Pod https://bsky.app/profile/smershpod.com
I co-do A Wheezing Groaning Sound.
1/3 Snake Boy
Author of Thunderbook, Explodobook and Superbook.
https://linktr.ee/itsjohnrain
www.patreon.com/SmershPod
shows.acast.com/smershpod
Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com Makes the most normal videos on YouTube.
Also a cohort on MinnMax.
https://jacobgeller.com/
Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social Journalist, podcaster (Origin Story) and author (33 Revolutions Per Minute, The Ministry of Truth, Everything Must Go, Origin Story books). Anti-doomer despite everything. www.dorianlynskey.com
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Two books published this year - Normally Weird & Weirdly Normal and poetry collection Ice Cream for a Broken Tooth
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance.
Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh
Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions
agent: @WatsonLittle
Friends In Common @friendsincommon.bsky.social 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘰𝘯: 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘱 & 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴
by @lauracforster.bsky.social & @joeljoel.bsky.social out June 2025
https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon
Clarisse Berthezène @clarisseberthezene.bsky.social 
Jon Bigger @drjonbigger.bsky.social A-Level Government and Politics tutor. Anarchist. Podcaster. Doctor Who fan. Watch a lot of motorsport. Rock n Roll. Support Lincoln City.
Recovering from Long Covid - I think!