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
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
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at McMaster University specialising in histories of environmental health and contamination. She/her
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
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. 
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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/
Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social Publisher @University of London Press | Humanities research and publishing | Open research
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
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.
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & 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)
Iona Murphy @ionamurphy.bsky.social 🌸Lecturer at University of Huddersfield🌸
🌸Disability studies scholar🌸
🌸V&A Taylor Swift advisor🌸
🌸UoH Women's Network Chair🌸
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!
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.
Middlesbrough FC Women @borowomen.bsky.social The official BlueSky account of Middlesbrough FC Women
Middlesbrough FC @mfc.co.uk - 𝟏𝟓𝟎 𝐘𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐒 -
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
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)
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
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.
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!
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/
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
Robert Piggott @rpiggott.bsky.social Historian. Researching a disparate mix of voluntary action, medical, religious, and media histories in modern Britain.
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.
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/
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