Jon Pountney @jonpountney1.bsky.social ONLY AN EYE, BUT MY GOD WHAT AN EYE!
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
ERB @sp28.net Observer | Hudson Valley and NYC
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Frans Saraste @franssaraste.bsky.social Architect, DSc. asking
how heat got out of hand. PhD thesis on the architecture of thermocultures in Helsinki, Aalto University 2026.
www.franssaraste.com
Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social “Hilarious.” - Stephen Fry. “Made me laugh out loud.” - David Sedaris. “Very funny.” - Kate Atkinson. "Psychedelic." - The Guardian. “Not humerus at all.” - Amazon reviewer. https://www.tom-cox.com/
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Neon Deutschland @neondeutschland.bsky.social Germany’s finest neon.
A project of @berlintypography.bsky.social
Stiles @lakesstiles.bsky.social 'That bloke that does stiles'; also clouds and general nonsense.
'gradually the sense of disappointment wears away'
Shap, this account, etc
'Diplomatically tight-lipped about fluvial processes'
205TF @205tf.bsky.social TF, two letters that stand for Type Foundry and Typographie Française (French Typography).
https://www.205.tf/
Rainer @kraikrasni.bsky.social Photographic magpie looking for the extra in the ordinary.
www.rainerroth.net
Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social Buildings, signs, and symbols collected by keyword. Original photographic documentation since 2010.
Chicago, IL — www.ruralindexingproject.com
Daily Rothko @dailyrothko.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/dailyrothko?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a6cc688f-88d8-4dbb-a7df-75f3b74d02be
Mike Henry @onlyveesaz.bsky.social Columnist for Birding magazine & award winning bird photog. SE Arizona
https://mikehenry-photography.smugmug.com/
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD @greenleejw.bsky.social Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval things. Talkin’ eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps and artwork on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
LeftLion Magazine Nottingham @leftlion.bsky.social Where Nottingham Meets.
Shouting arts and culture in the home of Robin Hood since 2003.
Henry Sweet Society @henrysweetsoc.bsky.social Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas
Spoon & Tamago @spoon-tamago.bsky.social Japanese art, design & culture
Colin Steer @colinphoenix.bsky.social Music, culture, the arts, my niche tastes & occasionally stories
Dunfermline, Fife
MDANT
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Jon F @jonnyfox81.bsky.social
Brent Rademaker @imaginationquota.bsky.social Tell us a bit about yourself…ok
curationrecords.com , Beachwood Sparks and more music…
@andybtravels.bsky.social @andybtravels.bsky.social
Richard Buckner @bucknerblue.bsky.social ACAB
All new & unreleased music/writing is posted exclusively on EXTRACTIONS: https://richardbuckner.substack.com/
Robert Gumpert @ragumpert.bsky.social Documentary audio and photography. robertgumpert.com. Author of "Division Street" photos of living unhoused on the streets of San Francisco with words and stories. Published by Dewi Lewis. Co-Editor the Stansbury Forum (https://stansburyforum.com)
AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org A team of scientists & activists, in & around Yellowstone National Park. 501c3. Posting photos, ideas & solutions, because together, we can change the world.
Please report malicious trolls & imposters.
We are AltYelloNatPark™️
Ben Dinnery @bendinnery.bsky.social Founder of @PremierInjuries | https://www.premierinjuries.com/
𝙄𝙣𝙟𝙪𝙧𝙮 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙩 | Contributions @TheAthleticUK @SkySports @BBCSport among others.
Enquiries 📧 ben@premierinjuries.com
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social Associate Professor in History @uninorthampton.bsky.social, Departmental Tutor @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social. Current research interests: late medieval family, gender, literary culture; medievalism and the extreme right.
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
Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
Susan Stryker @susanstryker.bsky.social Biological Boomer, GenX-identified, but sometimes I get passed as even younger because of my sassy attitude and tastes in music and film||I do trans stuff||susanstryker.net
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.
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
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.
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.
LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History @laborlawchajournal.bsky.social The official journal of @lawcha.bsky.social. Published by @dukepress.bsky.social
To access all issues of LABOR visit https://read.dukeupress.edu/labor
Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social Not going to be invited to a UN xmas party any time soon
Senior Lecturer in foreign policy & security at City St George’s, UoL. Historian of UN peacekeeping and humanitarianism. Author of Blue Helmet Bureaucrats: http://shorturl.at/aoxzM. she/her
Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting
Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social Sowing seeds 🌱 Making sensations 💫 (Dr, she/they)
Design historian, educator, image maker.
Hong Kong, design history, material/visual/spatial culture, everyday.
@iias.bsky.social Asia in the World Fellow.
https://vivienchan.co.uk/
marral @marralsham.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/mshamshiri
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
Dr Mary Katherine Newman @maryknewman.bsky.social PhD in Colonial Spanish American Literature @Oxford
Incoming Quirk Postdoctoral Fellow @UCL
🏴/🇺🇸
https://linktr.ee/maryknewman
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India
Jamey Jesperson @jameyj.bsky.social SSHRC Post-Doctoral Research & Teaching Fellow @ UBC History
Historian of trans womanhood before the 20th C | Indigenous & colonial Western North America | 🏳️⚧️
https://www.uvic.ca/humanities/history/people/graduate-students/profiles/jesperson-jamey.php
Claire Holliss @claireholliss.bsky.social Lecturer in History Education at UCL's Institute of Education/History teacher/PhD student researching the representation of LGBTQ+ history in the KS5 curriculum. She/Her
claireholliss.wordpress.com
David Turner @profdavidturner.bsky.social Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Disability: A History of Resistance out now from The Bodley Head / Vintage.
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century
ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic
also #CreativeHistories
yes, that’s an actual photo of me.
never had ebola. yet
Fraser Raeburn @fraserraeburn.bsky.social Historian interested in foreign fighters, transnational solidarities, emotion, anti-fascism and the Spanish Civil War. Currently based at @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Author 'Scots and the Spanish Civil War' (EUP, 2020). He/him.
Hannah Elias @hannahelias.bsky.social Historian working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. Advocacy & Academic Engagement Officer at Royal Historical Society. Lecturer in History @ Queen’s College, Oxford. FRHistS. All views my own. 🇨🇦🇱🇰🇬🇧
📧 hannah.elias@royalhistsoc.org
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
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.
Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
Mark Crail @markcrail.bsky.social Chartism and other #C19th stuff, chartistancestors.co.uk. Author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors and Chartist Lives, EC member @sslh.bsky.social. Science fiction reader.
Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social Prof. in French, U.of Surrey, UK. Views own.
Transnational anarchism & print culture (19thC); Anglo-French exile & migration; women & feminism. Posts in 🇫🇷&🇬🇧.
"Un premier exil libertaire" (Libertalia, 2024); “Femmes de révolution” (Seuil, 2025)
Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social Digital History, Radical History, Social History.
Dadaists, Anti-Artists, Cultural Deserters.
Coin clippers, Debtors escaping and imprisoned, Londoners.
Critics and Critiques of Political Economy.
Open Access, Public Domain, Hacking Around.
And Cats.
David Feldman @dmf101.bsky.social South of the Thames, south of the Yarra. Rootless cosmopolitan. Historian. Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism and University of Melbourne. Racism (against). Arsenal.
Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions.
Wellcome Research Fellow @ Strathclyde, researching the history of activism around HIV/AIDS denial.
They/them
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/
Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social Outreach and research centre devoted to encouraging the widest possible participation in historical study and debate.
George Severs @georgesevers.bsky.social Historian of health, violence and activism in modern Britain. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Usually found reading or swimming.
Dr. Alexandra F. Morris @disabledarchaeo.bsky.social Egyptologist & Disability Activist w/ CP. ♿ #DisHist of Ptolemaic Egypt & inclusive museums. Co-Founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social. President @museumedrt.bsky.social. Co-Chair @cripantiquity.bsky.social. New Yorker in the UK. She/Her. Opinions mine.
EHN. @envhnow.bsky.social EHN showcases the environment-related work + expertise of grad students and ECRs who identify as women, trans and/or nonbinary people in #EnvHist #EnvHum 🌱🌍
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
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.
Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com Award-winning historian #HistSTM & #DisHist. Author of "Hearing Happiness: Deafness Cures in History" (2020) and "Echoes of Care: Deafness in Modern Britain." Associate Professor at University of Victoria. Deaf & forever a radical
Learn more: jaivirdi.com
Ole Birk Laursen @olebirklaursen.bsky.social anticolonialism / antifascism / anarchism / author of 'The Indian Revolutionary Movement in Europe, 1905-1918: Exile, Internationalism, and Resistance to Empire' (2026) https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781807810153
Abusablepast @abusablepast.bsky.social The Abusable Past is the digital companion to the Radical History Review, presenting unique and original content related to the praxis of radical history.
https://abusablepast.org/ and more at linktr.ee/theabusablepast
English Radical History @englishradical.bsky.social Quotes, facts, images and videos about England’s radical past.
Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social A podcast on radical politics, critical theory, and history. Hosted by @redandinexpert.bsky.social
Listen: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Katherine Mackinnon @kamack.bsky.social Writer and PhD researcher interested in oral history, migration and methodology. Also radical history walking tours, books, social history, Glasgow kmackinnon.org radicalglasgowtours.com she/her
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.
Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social History is for everyone. Every way of doing history is worthwhile. Historians should be paid for their work. www.contingentmagazine.org
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 💫
Migration Museum @migrationmuseum.org Building the UK’s Missing Museum. We explore how the movement of people to and from the UK has made us who we are.
Community guidelines → https://www.migrationmuseum.org/community-guidelines/
The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Insurrect! Radical Thinking in Early American Studies @insurrecthistory.bsky.social Insurrect! publishes writing related to the historical and cultural legacies of colonialism in the Americas and Atlantic World, broadly defined.
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Stef Dickers @stef-dickers.bsky.social Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute. Rather passionate about London, Activist, LGBTQ+ & Fetish Archives. Bass Player.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Waseem Ahmed @waseemahmed98.bsky.social UCL History PhD Everyday politics in 1650s England, PGTA UCL Institute of Americas and EISPS, KCL History, Interests: EM popular politics/political culture and practices, Left radical traditions
Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
Dr Kate Gibson @kategibson.bsky.social Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain
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)
Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
@iciaurriz.bsky.social @iciaurriz.bsky.social Teaching Fellow at the University of Leeds. 20th Europe-Communism (esp politics & ideas) and political violence / Formely at Durham Univeristy. PhD from Edinburgh University. LGTBQ+He/Him 🏳️🌈.
Marc Palen @mwpalen.bsky.social Historian. Editor, The Imperial & Global Forum. Author, Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691199320/pax-economica. New Yorker “Best Books” list. Financial Times “Best Books.”
Tim Jerrome @timjerrome.bsky.social Doctoral student at Brighton researching gay and lesbian histories in rural England. Also a writer, gamer, enthusiastic but hopeless tennis player, and fan of all dogs with facial hair
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
Barb Drummond @barbdrummond.bsky.social Self publishing historian mostly on 18th century Britain. Books on wife selling, machines of the Enlightenment, and much more. Latest book The Great Flood of 1607 published September 2024. Love photography, churchcrawling, curiosity
Tom Peters @tbtpeters.bsky.social Policy and public affairs for a trade union.
Former shadow treasury advisor.
Boxing record - W0 - D0 - L1 (retired)
Dr. Jude Seal - 'Unfunded Hobbyist' @judeseal.bsky.social
PhD. from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Repost ≠ Endorsement / All views my own.
Primary Research: History/Archaeology of Medicine, Disability, Disease, Trauma. Palæopathology. Religion. 'Theorist' & 'Massive Autodidact'
Hannah Cusworth @hannahcusworth.bsky.social Historian, curator, former teacher, toddler mum.
Arunima Datta (PhD, FRHistS) @migrationhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Professor.
Studies: Britain, British Empire, South & Southeast Asia, women’s history, migration history
Author of:
Waiting on Empire: Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023)
Fleeting Agencies: Coolie women in Malaysia (CUP, 2021)
Dr Priya Atwal @priyaatwal.bsky.social Historian of empire, monarchy & cultural politics in UK/S Asia. Community History Fellow @ Oxford Uni. Views are my own.
Book & contact info here: https://linktr.ee/drpriyaatwal
Rohan Deb Roy @rohandroy.bsky.social Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent