Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Aaron Ackerley @aaronackerley.bsky.social Modern British History. Press and Media. Empire. Economics. Knowledge and Power.
Associate Professor in History, University of Stavanger
Helen Lewis @helenlewis.bsky.social Staff writer, The Atlantic | Author, Difficult Women (2020) and The Genius Myth (2025) | Podcaster, Page 94 | Doom scroller, the internet | uk.bookshop.org/shop/helenlewis
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
Richard Toye @richardtoye.bsky.social Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain. Co-host of Churchill: The Finest Half Hour (on Spotify, Apple, & YouTube).
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Richard Hall @hallymk1.bsky.social Works as a Professor of Education and Technology at DMU Leicester. Independent visitor. Primary PRU governor. #walsallfc #Foxes🦊 #freepalestine The Dissolution of the Universities https://tinyurl.com/ykwvr2ba
punkacademic @punkacademic.bsky.social Anarchist | historian | political culture and education policy | disabled | MS | he/him | Evertonian
Debating Anarchism
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/debating-anarchism-9781350118102/
punkacademic.org
Lauri Snellman @laurijosnellman.bsky.social I'm a philosopher and a researcher on the problem of evil. Author of Evil and Intelligibility and An Essay in the Logic of World-views.
Also follow progressive liberalism vs authoritarianism, animal and nature pics on BlueSky. :)
Independent Social Research Foundation @isrfoundation.bsky.social Dedicated to the promotion of interdisciplinary research in the social sciences. Likes/Reposts/Shared Articles are not necessarily endorsements.
Konstantin Tarasov @ktarasov.bsky.social Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham
Historian of the First World War and the Russian Revolution
https://nottingham.academia.edu/KonstantinTarasov
https://t.me/hist1914_1922
Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social Politics Professor, University of Manchester. Sky News Elections Analyst
Author of "The British General Election of 2024" & "Brexitland". All takes are mine only.
"The Swingometer", is here: https://swingometer.substack.com/
https://www.robertford.net/
Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social Political Editor, The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/pippacrerar
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Taj Ali @tajali1.bsky.social Journalist and Historian | Royal Society of Literature award-winning writer and Orwell Prize finalist 2026
Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social Interim Professor at Europa-Universität Viadrina and Senior Researcher at Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany | organization studies | critical management studies | higher education
he/him
Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social British Empire Professor, University of Sussex. Co-editor, MUP Studies in Imperialism series. Views here own.
Blogs on politics of colonial history here: https://alanlester.co.uk Editor https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-truth-about-empire/
Hugh Jones @hbsj.bsky.social I work with universities to help them work better. #HigherEducationPostcard #FreyaDog Liable to proselytize about #ClimateChange #HigherEducation #Consultant #Swansea #Deltiologist #SWFC
Ancom Reader 🇺🇦 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴🐆☸️ @intlibecosoc.bsky.social Author, Tolstoy's Search for the Kingdom of God: Gender and Queer Anarchism and Queer Tolstoy: A Psychobiography #1u @losangelesiww.bsky.social https://intlibecosoc.wordpress.com/
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
Raymond Craib @raycraib.bsky.social Historian at Cornell. Adventure Capitalism: A history of libertarian exit from the era of decolonization to the digital age; Países Privados: Historias del sueño libertario. Ipswich Town FC.
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
History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social an online historical social movement archive
historykeepshappening.wordpress.com
historykeepshappening.bearblog.dev
Stephanie Wanga @stephaniewanga.bsky.social :) happy human.
african politics, african philosophy, african history, african statehood and anarchy, aesthetics, african everything.
stephaniewanga.com
Torkil Sørensen @torkilsoerensen.bsky.social Historian interested in #Worldcommunism esp. in Germany and Denmark.
Danish Refugee Council 1986-2000. Nordic Council 2000-2017.
(Re-)posting about history-in-the-making and #history. Now and then photos. Posting in (not perfect) English / German / Danish
Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social Far-flung euro-🇩🇿 researching and teaching (hi)stories of science, animals, empire, and antifascist movements (FR and BEL) | my own views 🌱 | no dms
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Daniel Breeze @danielbreeze.com Historian of ideas and human-animal relations. Monograph in progress based on my PhD: Creeds of Kinship. Thinking about intellectual history as multispecies dialogue and animals as 'cousins'. He/him. danielbreeze.com
International Review of Social History @irsh-iisg.bsky.social IRSH | @iisg_amsterdam | @CambridgeUP | social and labour history from a comparative and transnational perspective |
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky
History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group @hpgrg.bsky.social https://historyphilosophyofgeographyrg.co.uk/
PSA Politics & History Specialist Group @psapolhistory.bsky.social We are the Politics & History Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association
(@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/politics-and-history
Anar @clemens-clemens.bsky.social Anarchist based in Amsterdam. With an interest in anarchist and social history, theory and organizing. Part of Anarchist Library Amsterdam, AGA and of the (still in construction) Organisatie v. Vrij Socialisme.
Tweets in Dutch and English.
Loughborough International Relations, Politics and History @irph.bsky.social We are International Relations, Politics and History at Loughborough University, part of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities. We offer seven undergraduate programmes, an MA in International Security, and doctorates.
Cusp @cusplate.bsky.social Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures. Journal published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Edited by Kate Hext, Kristin Mahoney, and Alex Murray
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/839
Georgios Varouxakis @georgiosvarouxakis.bsky.social Author of "The West: The History of an Idea" (Princeton University Press, 2025). Professor of the History of Political Thought, Queen Mary University of London.
Laura del Alisal @lauradelalisal.bsky.social Eterna estudiante. Cosmopolita de barrio.
DPhil candidate researching transatlantic conceptions of liberty among late-nineteenth-century Spanish and Cuban republicans.
Anthony Kevins @avkevins.bsky.social Political scientist studying how public opinion and policy interact.
• Senior Lecturer at Loughborough University
• UK Young Academy Member
• Loughborough UCU Branch Secretary
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
Leicester Museums & Galleries @leicestermuseums.bsky.social Leicester Museums & Galleries, free to all since 1849.
Exhibitions, events, learning and collections.
www.leicestermuseums.org
Leicester Gazette @leicestergazette.leicester.news The Leicester Gazette is a local, independent newspaper, free to access for all online and in print.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.leicester.news/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow
Jessica Field @jessicafield.bsky.social Writer, researcher, politics nerd. Interested in housing, gender and social justice. I run www.saveourhomesLS26.org on behalf of a community campaign.
My book *Eviction: A social history of rent* is due out with Verso in 2025!
Lilly Wachowski @lillywachowski.bsky.social Trans Giantess.
Loughborough University UCU @lboroucu.bsky.social Loughborough University UCU (University & College Union) Branch. Posts by Committee Members and Branch Staff.
Henry Brown @hdabrown.bsky.social Lecturer in modern European history at Cardiff University. Interested in modern Spain, military culture, and antifascism. Views own. Tired.
Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social Historian @ QMUL
Refugees, Migration, and Rights
Author of Making Refugees in India
@drjamesmcintyre.bsky.social @drjamesmcintyre.bsky.social
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |🏳️🌈 |🇪🇺| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
Sam @sam-11.bsky.social
Daniel Adams @dja79.bsky.social Usdaw Official | All views my own | ⚒
Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴 @kevincarson1.bsky.social He/him
Anarchist and freelance writer
kevinacarson.org
patreon.com/kevincarson
independent.academia.edu/KevinCarson
c4ss.org/content/author/kevin-carson
Latest book: https://www.amazon.com/State-Theory-Praxis-Kevin-Carson/dp/B0BKHPZTS8
@rachark.bsky.social @rachark.bsky.social
PM Press @pmpress.bsky.social PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. linktr.ee/pmpress
ESSHC.bsky.social @esshc.bsky.social The European Social Science History Conference will take place in Leiden, the Netherlands, from 26-29 March 2025.
Auréliane Narvaez @anarvaez.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. history @uparisnanterre.bsky.social ⎮Nineteenth century, Women's history, Freethought ⎮Believer in everything odd
Claire Dubois @clairedubois.bsky.social Associate Professor University of Lille. Irish history, memory studies…
Currently working on the French representations of the Irish revolutionary period.
Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social "End Times Fascism" book available now.
Doppelganger. This Changes Everything. The Shock Doctrine. No Logo. On Fire.
UBC Professor of Climate Justice.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/naomiklein
AK Press @akpress.org Your friendly anarchist publisher & distributor, worker-run and collectively managed since 1990. No bosses, no bullshit.
See what's new at akpress.org!
Rob Hawkes @robbhawkes.bsky.social Money happens; @moneyontheleft.bsky.social editorial collective; credit @wherecreditsdue.bsky.social; Former Chair @modernistudies.bsky.social; researching literature, money, and trust; he/him; https://linktr.ee/robhawkesMotL
Loughborough English @lboroenglish.bsky.social We are the Department of English in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University. We are a top 10 department with excellent teaching and world-leading research. More information here: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/english/
George Evans @georgedevans93.bsky.social Historian of the British Empire, Ireland and the Second World War, University of Edinburgh.
The London Walker @thelondonwalker.bsky.social Walker and history guide, Tim Lewis: filmmaker, storyteller, writer, mentor. Specialised guide exploring London's unique history and culture.
@litagencygmc
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/thelondonwalker
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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
Keith Lewis @drkeith11lewis.bsky.social Politics and IR: Post-anarchism, Mysticism, Psychoanalysis, Political Theology and Political Ecology
Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
History and Theory @histandtheojrnl.bsky.social H&T is an international journal devoted to the theory of history and philosophy of history. Est. 1960, located
at Wesleyan University, published by Wiley.
Our website: https://historyandtheory.org/
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
Midland History Journal @midlandhistory.bsky.social We are the principal academic journal covering the history of the English midlands, from Roman times to the twenty-first century.
Cultural Studies - Published by Routledge @culturalstudies.bsky.social Cultural Studies is a field-defining, peer-reviewed journal published 6x/year by Routledge | Nabil Echchaibi & Ted Striphas, Coeditors
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcus20/current
Contemporary European History @conteurohistory.bsky.social Published by Cambridge University Press. Edited by Emile Chabal, Siobhán Hearne, Michelle Lynn Kahn, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Journal of Women's History @jwomenshistory.bsky.social The official account of the Journal of Women’s History, edited by Sandie Holguín and Jennifer J. Davis. Book Review Editor, Ronnie Grinberg. Website: jwomenshistory.org journal site: https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/100
Eleanor Strangways @eleanorstrangways.bsky.social Historian researching post-war anarchist movements and their interaction with anti-imperialism.
Midlands Innovation @midlandsinnovation.bsky.social A world-class university research partnership, pooling the collective excellence of universities in the Midlands.
Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social Professor of democracy and international affairs. http://www.henryfarrell.net and newsletter at http://www.programmablemutter.com. Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy (Holt, Penguin). https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781250840554.
Tom Goyens @tomgoyens.bsky.social Professor of History, Salisbury Univ | Anarchism | Author of "Beer and Revolution" & "Johann Most" | Belgian beer lover
https://txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens | https://tomgoyens.substack.com/
Darin Self @darinself.com Assistant Professor of Political Science -- Researching democratization, autocracies, the military, and political parties.
Chair of Utah County Democratic Party -- making democracy work locally:
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Pincopallina 🍉 جووانعہ جولئ | जोवन्ना जोली @gioli.bsky.social
Erin Beeston (she/her) @erinbeeston.bsky.social Historian, writer, comedian, lived-experience autism researcher
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John Angus Spencer-Barnes 🏳️🌈 @johnbarnes.org Freelance who reads the news on BBC Radio 5 Live & all 40 BBC local radio stations from MediaCityUK in sunny Salford.
Bewhiskered ex-academic historian, folkie, morris dancer & geek.
Bellman of the City of Preston.
Husband of @davespenceruk.bsky.social.
Gaby Mahlberg @thehistorywoman.bsky.social Historian, journalist, utopian. Based in London & Berlin. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.
Association for Global Political Thought @gpolthought.bsky.social Dedicated to the study of political thought in international society and global contexts. Based at Harvard University and partner institutions. https://globalpoliticalthought.hsites.harvard.edu/
Adam Tooze @adamtooze.bsky.social Chartbook Substack https://adamtooze.substack.com/
OnesandTooze podcast https://foreignpolicy.com/podcasts/ones-and-tooze/
C******* University historian, Director European Institute, Chair Cttee on Global Thought.
Economics, history, theory, politi
aylon cohen @ayloncohen.bsky.social teaching feminist political theory at Oxford University & writing a history of manhood democracy through the lens sodomy
Vincent Harting @vharting.bsky.social Fellow in Political Theory at @lsepoltheory.bsky.social | Working on socialism, democratic theory, and economic justice.