Ridings of Yorkshire Society @roysociety.bsky.social Exploring Yorkshire's past since 2021.
ROYS 2026 will take place at York Explore Library, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th June.
Contact us at help@ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk or visit our website at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk
Jenni Collins @jennicollins.bsky.social DPhil English Local History student at Oxford Uni, researching interwar council housing. A trustee at Newbury Almshouse Trust, and also I love the Manics
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Carro 🇸🇪🌊 @carolinesweden.bsky.social Swedish. AuDHD. PTSD. Middle-aged, early retired. Atheist .Lifelong radical left scum. Democratic socialist.💙🇨🇦🇩🇰
Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at McMaster University specialising in histories of environmental health and contamination. She/her
Rye Hashiguchi @ryehashiguchi.bsky.social History PhD student at King's College London, researching urban history of modern London around the River Thames.
kingschostm.com/pgrs/rye-hashiguchi
🏳️🌈 (he/him)
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
Cyberflaneurs @cyberflaneurs.bsky.social 
Moa Carlsson @moacarlsson.bsky.social Historian of 20th-century Britain, esp. landscape planning and rural modernism. Lecturer at University of Edinburgh. Book on landscape architects and the post-war industrialisation of rural Britain forthcoming with CUP. 
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social Landscape architect, art historian, Professor at Liverpool School of Architecture interested in history, gender and climate futures. Mum of two great kids and a vizsla. PI Women of the Welfare Landscape https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/womenofthewelfarelandscape
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/
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Gareth Roddy @grod.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain & Ireland, landscape, regional/national identities, borders, heritage, travel literature. 
Crimeajewel @crimeajewel.bsky.social Creative Artiste. London and Venice.
With small creative shop Crimeajewel on www.
No DMs please as 99.99% are spam or scammers. I send no DMs. Thank you.
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
VOTE BLUE!!!! @aporter.bsky.social Committed to equal rights for all!
I’m a scientist, mom, wife, writer, walker/runner, reader, Desert Dweller, NJ expat. Not necessarily in that particular order.
Ben Clifford @benclifford.bsky.social Professor of Spatial Planning. Geographer-Planner based in London. Cities, housing, environment, government. Enjoys travel, hiking, cycling and lots more.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social Publisher @University of London Press | Humanities research and publishing | Open research
Adam Sharron @atomics.bsky.social A crow beaking around shiny objects. An enthusiast of the built environment and an engager of nature. Bay Area presently.
Guy @carrot-guy.bsky.social Some guy called Guy.
Justine Pick @justinepick.bsky.social Historian of 19/20 c, sanitation & public health; social & political history of Birmingham (UK); Exec Sec for https://sshm.org/; admin for Midland History https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ymdh20/; trustee https://www.archiveswestmidlands.org.uk/
Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Psychologist
MOVING MOUNTAINS
PhD candidate at Centre for Place Writing, Manchester Met Uni.
Exploring the Romney Marshes & its coastline through post-viral illness. https://louisekenward.substack.com
Rep'd by @portyliterary.bsky.social
Jonathan Prior @jprior.bsky.social Human Geographer at Cardiff University. Environmental aesthetics | sonic geography | ecological restoration & rewilding.
Currently working on a cross-cultural analysis of wildlife & environmental sound archives.
https://12gatestothecity.com/
Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham
Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Recently also thinking about Lough Neagh. UCU rep. #firstgen
Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social natural + supernatural histories 1750-2000 🗃️ | editor + essays Dutch Review of Books | RAAF (2022) | WOLF (2023) | SUPERNATURAL BODIES (2024) | UITDRIJVEN (2025) | PERFORMING MAGNETISM (2026)
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily queerness in Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
Lisa Taylor @lisajt67.bsky.social Reader in Cultural Studies at Leeds Beckett University. Deindustrialisation, creative methods, class. New book: Threads of Labour: tapestry of an ex-industrial community (2025) MUP.
University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social Opening up humanities research.
Passionate advocates for the humanities, we are a collaborative, non-profit and predominantly open access publishing partner to researchers and institutions, creating award-winning scholarly books.
https://uolpress.co.uk
Iona Murphy @ionamurphy.bsky.social 🌸Lecturer at University of Huddersfield🌸
🌸Disability studies scholar🌸
🌸V&A Taylor Swift advisor🌸
🌸UoH Women's Network Chair🌸
Edward Hasbrouck @edwardhasbrouck.bsky.social Anti-fascist, author, journalist, consumer & human rights advocate, ally to youth liberation, bicyclist, consultant to the Identity Project.
https://hasbrouck.org
edward@hasbrouck.org
Signal +1-415-824-0214
Mastodon: https://urbanists.social/@ehasbrouck
Living With Water @livingwithwater.bsky.social Online seminar series coming May 2025, organised by Sam Grinsell (UCL) and Giulia Champion (University of Southampton). More details coming soon!
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Geneviève Massard @genmass.bsky.social Historienne, professeure émérite à l'EHESS
Pollution industrielle. Justice sociale et environnementale.
Soutien indéfectible à tous les droits des Palestinien.nes
Lyon ("Tout l'monde y peut pas être de Lyon. Il en faut ben d'un peu partout !")
Katrin Kleemann @katrinkleemann.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher at the German Maritime Museum/Leibniz Institute for Maritime History. Environmental historian working on volcanoes, earthquakes, oceans, history of science, and of course #Laki1783🌋🇮🇸.
www.katrinkleemann.com
Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social Environmental Historian of Modern Britain | Heatwaves, Overheating & Environmental Change | Cities, Urban Childhoods & Play | Heritage, Public Engagement & Policy- R @richar111.bsky.social @richar111.bsky.social
Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
Lance Racey (aka CranesfootLance) @cranesfootlance.bsky.social Family historian & genealogist. Wrestles with history. IHGS Student. Background in HR, Wellbeing, Disability, Mentoring & FE. Europhile. Father, son & cousin. Researching New, Cammish, Atkinson, Martin, Gale, Higginbotham and Unknown. Racey by name....
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.
Daniel Terdiman @greeterdan.bsky.social Sr. Editorial Writer. Was: Writer/Editor @roblox @Meta Reality Labs, Editorial dir. @thisisoutcast, Senior Writer @fastcompany, @cnet, writer @wired. @ColumbiaJourn MS. Cats. Burning Man. Planes. GSW. #BLM Always With Her. And her! Team Blue. Pro voting.
Sam Grinsell @samgrinsell.bsky.social Historian trying to help build better worlds 🇵🇸🌈✊🏳️⚧️
Blog here https://samgrinsell.hcommons.org/writing/
Buy me a brew https://ko-fi.com/samgrinsell
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
Tosh Warwick @toshwarwick.bsky.social Heritage Unlocked historian, heritage consultant, author, Researcher at the University of Sheffield. Historical contributor on TV, radio and newspapers on industrial heritage, urban history, football history and Middlesbrough FC!
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
Rob Ellis @re-histories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
alice @nononeko.bsky.social she/her
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Simon Briercliffe @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Sam Wetherell @samwetherell.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: www.samwetherell.com
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright 
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
Rob Ellis @rehistories.bsky.social Lecturer and (Public) Historian of Madness, mental ill-health and institutions. University of Huddersfield, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
Robert Piggott @rpiggott.bsky.social Historian. Researching a disparate mix of voluntary action, medical, religious, and media histories in modern Britain.
Shane Ewen @shaneewen.bsky.social Professor of urban history @lbu-rae.bsky.social, ed. @urbanhistory.bsky.social, trustee @historictownstrust.bsky.social
Before Grenfell - free OA https://uolpress.co.uk/book/before-grenfell/
Free resources - https://forged-by-fire.wixsite.com/home?fbcli