Dr Hope Doherty-Harrison @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social Lecturer in Medieval Studies at Birkbeck.
Writing a book on Judas for Cornell UP.
Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance (Manchester UP, 2025)
Towards An Accessible Academy ed. Lee, Champion, Doherty-H (MIP, 2025)
She/her
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
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Medieval Manuscripts @blmedieval.bsky.social Posting about The British Library's marvellous medieval manuscripts.
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Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
Philip Lewis @pslewis.bsky.social Head of Global Strategy, Policy & Engagement at The British Academy. Previously at the European Parliament and the UK House of Lords. Working on EU & global research and innovation policy | global (dis)order | humanity, climate & nature
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Andrew Prescott @ajprescott.bsky.social Hon Senior Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow. Writes and researches on medieval history and manuscripts, archives, digital humanities, and the history of freemasonry. Heavily involved with the 'People of 1381' project: www.1381.online.
Gresham College @greshamcollege.bsky.social Free public lectures across the Arts & Sciences | Since 1597
http://gresham.ac.uk
David Eldridge @deldridgewriter.bsky.social "Astute social chronicler" (Time Out). Writer, lecturer & dad dancer. Thoughts on family, the arts, WHUFC, books & politics. Rep Michael McCoy at Independent Talent, London.
Patrick Wallis @patrickwallis.bsky.social Professor of Economic History, LSE; Apprenticeship. Health. Pharmacy. Work. Wages. and all kinds of history. Plus a bit of running. New book: market for skill coming out with Princeton in March 2025- S @shoebob.bsky.social @shoebob.bsky.social
Lesley McFadyen @lesleymcf.bsky.social archaeology, art, heritage ecologies, drumadoon, ardeer
Sarah Dickenson @sedickenson.bsky.social Playwright and Dramaturg
Neurodivergent
Boscastle/Bath
Rep: Alexandra Cory at Berlin Associates
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
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Claire Titley @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social Archivist. Shropshire lass in Leytonstone. Interests include London history, books, hills, art, architecture. 🐈⬛ 🇵🇸
@reedproject.bsky.social @reedproject.bsky.social
Callan Davies @callanjd.bsky.social early modern leisure, play/s, culture | books: "What is a Playhouse?"+"Strangeness" + new intro to Shakespeare’s Merry Wives | MCFC⚽️| FSA, FRHistS | he/him | Lecturer at Uni of Southampton
https://www.callandavies.com
Mai Sato @drmaisato.bsky.social Prof & Director, Institute for Crime & Justice Policy Research, Birkbeck, University of London @icpr.bsky.social @worldprisonbrief.bsky.social
UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran
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British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
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
Sarah Churchwell @sarahchurchwell.bsky.social Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.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.
Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr Founded in 1929 by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre
Presenting the most innovative research in the field of history and social sciences.
👉 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annales-histoire-sciences-sociales
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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social Writer, academic, medievalist, queer
Nick Millea @milleanick.bsky.social Map Curator at the Bodleian, University of Oxford; Hon Fellow, Royal Scottish Geographical Society; Chair, Charlbury Beer Festival (2020); Cyclist ...
Argula @argular.bsky.social Project Curator (Cataloguing Lead), SOAS Library
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
Ian Gadd @iangadd.bsky.social Bibliographer; book historian. Opinions are my own.
(Header image is cartoon by Stephen Collins: http://www.stephencollinsillustration.com/)
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Andrew Riley @andrewriley-001.bsky.social Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
Leo Baeck Institute London @lbilondon.bsky.social The Leo Baeck Institute London is a research institute dedicated to the study of German-Jewish history and culture, organising research projects, fellowships and public events. Affiliated with Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.lbilondon.ac.uk
Cultural & Social History @cultsochistory.bsky.social Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
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/
David Wilcox @davidwilcox.bsky.social Living in the City of London, exploring Smithfield and neighbouring Clerkenwell with maps and media https://connections.commons.london/
Humap: the digital humanities map platform @humap.bsky.social 🗺️ Bring your collections, data, and research to life with geospatial storytelling
https://humap.me/
#GLAMA #DigitalHumanities #EdTech #CitizenScience #CitizenHumanities
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
Drew Gray @drewdgray.bsky.social Historian of crime and London;
Arsenal fan and member of the Arsenal Advisory Board, Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
Green Anarchist, and wannabe photographer
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
Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social (Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
BISA at Birkbeck @bisa-bkk.bsky.social The Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, University of London, is a centre of innovative research and teaching, and contributes to public policy.
https://bisa.bbk.ac.uk/
Jessica Reinisch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social Modern historian at Birkbeck, working on UNRRA, relief & humanitarianism, internationalism. I edit the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series & direct the Centre for the Study of Internationalism.
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Naomi Smith @naomiruthsmith.bsky.social journalism/media studies researcher | writer | nerd 🏳️🌈💜🍉 (she/they)
researching: journalism; intersectionality; depictions of Black, queer & Indigenous Americans in television news
events coordinator at the Birkbeck Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Caroline Shenton @dustshoveller.bsky.social Archivist, Historian and Author of The Day Parliament Burned Down and National Treasures. #RCEWA member. Secretary to Council at Girton College, Cambridge. TLDR: PenPusher.
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
Vanessa King @vanessaking1066.bsky.social Honorary fellow of Birkbeck College. Slowly writing a book on early English Queens for Routledge. https://queenshipinpreconquestengland.wordpress.com/
Amy Helen Bell @amyhelenbell.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
Lucy Munro @lucycmunro.bsky.social Professional literature geek. Theatre history and weird old plays. Leyton Orient aficionada. Writing a book about the Globe and Blackfriars Playhouses. she/her
Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social Soon to be ex-Associate Prof of Early Modern History | English History | Objects in Wills | Reformation | angels & ghosts | she/her | brownish | 1st gen
Wills Project: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Blog: manyheadedmonster.com
Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social Prof. of English Literature, Jesus College, Univ. of Oxford.
E-m British & European literature, history, & political thought; succession; parliamentary culture & Indigenous assemblies.
Pole in GB; pro-Ukraine; contra anti-Semitism. All views mine alone.
Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research group at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/
Follow our blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social Vice Chancellor at Buckinghamshire New University and Professor of Education #academicsky
Emma Bashforth @ejbashforth.bsky.social Livery company archivist • PhD student @ihr.bsky.social (apprenticeship during periods of crisis in early modern London) • Pen and ink artist www.instagram.com/ejb.ink
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social https://www.layersoflondon.org/ Mapping London's history & heritage through time using maps, images, films & Londoners' stories. Part of @chppc.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social
Heike Bauer @heikebauer.bsky.social Prof at Birkbeck & canicrosser. LGBTQI+ pasts; modern history of gender & sexuality; literary & cultural history; visual cultures; animals; pet history. Owned by 3 dogs & a cat. She/they.
London & the Surrey Hills via Wales. 💙 in Scotland
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
@curlyclarey.bsky.social @curlyclarey.bsky.social London-based, Kernow-born. Failed knitter. Limited nihongo. Dream of opening a home for goats.
MarineLives @marinelives.bsky.social Lives touched by the marine, 1574-1688. A volunteer led collaboration publishing to the Commons. See also: https://generativelives.substack.com/
Prof. Louise J. Wilkinson @medievalfemina.bsky.social Professor of Medieval Studies, Lincoln, formerly at Canterbury. Passionate about medieval women, queenship, the thirteenth century, English medieval government, medieval aristocratic life styles, medieval records, and Magna Carta. Views my own.
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
Annie Gray @dranniegray.bsky.social Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranniegray
Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter
Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536
Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
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~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social Historian (early modern & true crime). Teaches at Oxford University. Author - 1666 (out now), GOD’S THRONE (out soon).
Also… co-host BURIED EVIDENCE. Director of HistFest.
@historianmemory.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social Historian
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
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/
Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
Dr. John Price @jpaprice.bsky.social Public and Community Historian; Director, Museum of Everyday Life; Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. Historian, educator, author, walker, talker, academic, freelancer, wild swimmer, taphophile.
www.drjohnprice.net
www.moel.org.uk
buildingstories.co.uk
João de Castro e Brito Aldegalega @joaoaldegalega.bsky.social PhD researcher at KCL.
Unfreedom in medieval Northeastern Iberia is my current jam.
Birkbeck alumnus 🦉
Born and raised in 🇵🇹🇪🇺, aspiring world citizen.
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Craig Spence @cspence.bsky.social Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
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
Heather Knight @heather1576.bsky.social Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA and Faversham Society Trustee 🎭🏺
James Cummings @jamescummings.bsky.social Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature at @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Expertise in: Text Encoding Initiative (Chair of #TEI Board of Directors), digital #editions, #medieval #drama, #REED, #DigitalHumanities #DH #DHAwards, #HTR, #AI
Dr Janette Leaf @janetteleaf.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2023-2026. Weird cats, Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Hypnotic Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Shop Girls; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social Historian, archivist and researcher, College of Arms and the Vintners’ Company. Secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art.
Dennis Chao-Yo Cheng @londonmeow.bsky.social Data nerds studying governance and development at Birkbeck, University of London. https://ccheng11.github.io/. #datascience #rstats #firstgen 🏳️🌈
Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
Fellow @ihr.bsky.social.
Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies.
VF @openuniversity.bsky.social
https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
Ali Harman @alihar.bsky.social Retired library and information specialist. Volunteers at Brent Museum and Archives.
Into local and family history. Sings with the amazing Cecil Sharp House Choir.
Plays piano. Spins, dyes, knits, reads. Bit of gardening.
She/her.
Erika Hanna @erikahanna.bsky.social Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
Institute of Historical Research Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
Helen McCarthy @historianhelen.bsky.social Cambridge Historian, London-dweller, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.
Karen Colbron @kcols.bsky.social Subject Matter Expert Digital Collections focusing on access and use of digital content in learning, teaching and research.
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
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
Ella Howard @ellakhoward.bsky.social Professor, first gen, historian of cities, current book project on history of historic preservation districts
Author of Homeless: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812244724/homeless/
ellakhoward.com
Alexis Litvine @alexislitvine.bsky.social C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist.
Stephen Gadd @docuracy.co.uk Assistant Research Professor @camunicampop.bsky.social
Technical Director, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org
Research Associate & GIS Consultant @ihr.bsky.social & @layersoflondon.bsky.social