LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
IHR Women @ihrwomen.bsky.social IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
Women Also Know History @womenknowhistory.bsky.social media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory
#HistoryBeyondTheBinary
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
Lynn Abrams @lynncabrams.bsky.social Feminist, gardener, knitter, cyclist. Professor of Modern History Uni of Glasgow, gender history, oral history, textiles esp knit
Sam Rutherford (he/him) @echomikeromeo.bsky.social Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow.
I wrote this book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/teaching-gender-9780198937494
Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social Prof of contemporary history, University of Glasgow.
Mum.
Left feminist.
Belgian/Italian/Scottish/Swiss.
Thalassophile.
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/
Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on.
Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social Social Historian | Glasgow dweller | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, oral histories, moral panics. And public history in a newspaper.
Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social Left feminist
Sue John @suejohn.bsky.social A Feminist Leader and Co-Director at Glasgow Women's Library - @womenslibrary.bsky.social | PhD Researcher in History at the University of Glasgow, studying Suffrage material culture | Runner | Views are mine | She/Her
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
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
Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Rebecca Jennings @rebeccajennings.bsky.social Historian of gender and sexuality - Modern British and Australian lesbian history; transnational networks; oral history. Associate Professor at UCL. Cake baker.
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
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
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Kate Davison @queerstorian.bsky.social Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
Jen Evans @jennifervevans.bsky.social historian | Humboldtian | FRSC | FRHistS | PI of Populist Publics on social media and online hate | latest book, The Queer Art of History (Duke, 2023) | currently writing, Full Frontal: A New History of the Sexual Revolution and Drag After Hitler.
Annalisa Martin @annalisamartin.bsky.social Historian of gender, labour, sexuality and welfare in modern Germany
Postdoc @ Univ of Glasgow
Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social BBC Verify senior journalist | verification, AI, disinformation, conspiracy theories, open source investigations | shayan.sardarizadeh@bbc.co.uk
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)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
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
HerStory Maps @herstorymaps.bsky.social NEW WEBSITE LAUNCHING IN 2026
A citizen-science project based at Aix-Marseille Université: help us map sites of feminist memory around the world!
https://framacarte.org/fr/map/sites-of-suffrage-memory-a-herstory-maps-project_82076#2/-21.1/130.8
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Jackie Clarke @jackieclarke.bsky.social Contemporary historian interested in France, work, consumption, class, gender, deindustrialization. Based in Glasgow.
Sarah Knott @sarahknott.bsky.social Writer, feminist, intersectional inclusive historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
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
Centre for Gender Studies @cgslancaster.bsky.social The Centre for Gender Studies at Lancaster University 🏳️🌈 ✊🏽✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/centre-for-gender-studies/
Centre for Gender History @cgh-glasgow.bsky.social World-leading interdisciplinary research and teaching at University of Glasgow. Women's and gender history; history of sexuality; queer & trans history. MSc Gender history (on campus and online) & PhDs. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/genderhistory
Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
Journal of the History of Sexuality @jhistsex.bsky.social Academic journal on the history of sexuality in all its expressions. Spans geographic and temporal boundaries. Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary.
https://t.co/KfX7n8lsAg
Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social Historian of revolution, pessimistic anarchist. Nobody else wants these views, trust me. 'His real face is a hat' - Fern Riddell.
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
Protests and Suffragettes @scotsuffragette.bsky.social A creative project led by artists, activists, & archivists. Recovering & re-voicing #herstories & Celebrating #Scotland's #Suffragettes
🗣@tsBeall @clarethompson & other P&S team members
https://linktr.ee/protestsandsuffragettes
✨support us -> shopP&S✨
Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social The Scottish History Society is a registered charity and the leading publisher of original sources relating to the history of Scotland. Founded in 1886, the Society has published over 170 volumes.
British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social Research network for literary & cultural modernisms | info@bams.ac.uk | Join http://bams.ac.uk/join-bams | The Modernist Review tmr@bams.ac.uk I #ModWrite
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
Tanya Cheadle @cheadletanya.bsky.social Lecturer in Gender History at University of Glasgow. Research: sexual radicalism, esotericism, masculinities at Victorian fin de siecle. Based in Glasgow.
Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social Lecturer, dress & textile history. Author of The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes. Amateur stitcher
Fellow of the Royal Hist Soc
Tina Brown @tinabrownlm.bsky.social Author. Journalist. Editor.
tinabrown.substack.com
sirharrysummit.org
Michael Taylor @mhtaylor.bsky.social Historian, cat-guardian, legal consultant, and diminishing cricketer
marybeard @wmarybeard.bsky.social Classicist
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov Fighting every day to deliver a city that working New Yorkers can actually afford. Mayor of New York City.
University of Glasgow College of Arts & Humanities @uofgartshums.bsky.social The College of Arts & Humanities https://bsky.app/profile/uofgartshums.bsky.social.
A World Top 60 university for Arts and Humanities.
For regular updates follow us @UofGArtsHums
https://www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/arts
Karen Boyle @profkarenboyle.bsky.social Feminist Media Studies, Head of Humanities University of Strathclyde.
Scottish Universities Press @scotunipress.bsky.social SUP is a fully open access and not-for-profit university press coordinated through SCURL and managed by 20 university libraries across Scotland and Northern Ireland.
https://sup.ac.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: http://eepurl.com/i0AoJA
Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
🏳️🌈
Promoted by Elfrede Brambley-Cranshaw on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales. c/I po box 78066, London. SE16 9GQ
British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Daisy Buchanan @notrollergirl.bsky.social I write novels, I host the You’re Booked podcast, I love Jilly Cooper and custard.
CharityComms @charitycomms.bsky.social CharityComms is the membership network for communications professionals working in and with UK charities. Find out more about us and our membership at www.charitycomms.org.uk
Channel 4 @channel4tv.bsky.social Channel 4 Altogether Different since 1982.
Difference starts conversations, it makes us laugh, makes us feel. It triggers change.
Holly June Smith @hollyjunesmith.bsky.social ✍ Indie rom-com author & spicy audio scriptwriter
📚 CAN I TELL YOU SOMETHING? & SEE YOU NEXT WINTER - Out Now
🌍 Herts, UK
Sali Hughes @salihughes.bsky.social Journalist & Author.
Bang in to clothes, films, cults.
Lauren Laverne @laurenlaverne.bsky.social Broadcaster. Slow eater, fast reader.
Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social In the culture wars, I want to be the bit on Christmas Day where they all knocked it on the head for a bit and played football.
Justin Ng @justin-ng.bsky.social Australian freelance photographer in NW London covering news, entertainment, music, arts.
If you like my Larry posts pls support me on my ko-fi link https://ko-fi.com/justinng/
Insta: justin_ng_photographer
Nigel Slater @nigelslater.bsky.social A cook who writes.
Observer columnist. Author. Gardener.
Books: The Kitchen Diaries,
The Christmas Chronicles, A Cook’s Book,
A Thousand Feasts.
Instagram.com/nigelslater
Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social Journalist. Author. Podcaster. Liberal extremist.
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
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
Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social Journalist and podcaster. Politics, social affairs and a little bit of Britpop. Once Independent, now independent.
Find me in The i Paper, The New World, Obs, The Lead, Yahoo and on Oh God, What Now? & The Bunker pods
https://muckrack.com/hannah-fearn
Victoria Macdonald @vsmacdonald.bsky.social Health and Social Care Editor for Channel 4 News. Chair of Validity.NGO. Kiwi in the UK
RNIB Connect Radio @rnibradio.bsky.social Europe's first radio station for blind and partially sighted people.
Freeview 730/Online/Smart Devices
ARIAS 2024 Community Station Of The Year
Email: radio@rnib.org.uk
Website: www.rnib.org.uk/connect-radio
Image: young boy with headphones on relaxing.
Annie-Mai @anniemai.bsky.social founder of girl power marketing 💜 social media updates are kind of my thing ⚡️community of 70k+ 👯♀️
Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana.bsky.social Your Party MP for Coventry South 🌹
coventrysouth@parliament.uk
Promoted by Zarah Sultana at CWU South Midlands, Coventry, CV1 3EG
SightlessKombat Not at #Gamescom this year @sightlesskombat.com UK-based, award-winning, multi-credited accessibility consultant and content creator. Certified audio describer, voice actor and BAFTA member. All with no sight whatsoever.
Always happy to talk and share my personal perspective!
Lara Marshall @laramarshall.bsky.social Bibliophile, library-lover, braille-student and cat-lady. Fond of hyphens and interrobangs. Treasurer for Share the Vision @ReadingSight and Libraries Engagement Manager @RNIB ❤️
Matt Eason @matteason.me Designer & developer working in digital government
ambiph.one / govukvue.org / matteason.co.uk/scotbeats / stationlifts.org.uk
He/him
Lisa @lisalouisea.bsky.social
Amelia Hilton @ameliahilton.bsky.social Content Producer at RNIB Connect Radio, cinnamon bun enthusiast and sometimes poetry and songwriter
Mind @mind.org.uk Fighting for mental health – for support, for respect, for you ✊
Jessica Turtle @jessicaturtle.bsky.social Director, Museum of Homelessness
Content most likely about homelessness, trauma, recovery, living on a boat in London, running a museum, cats etc
Museum of Homelessness @ourmoh.bsky.social We are a grassroots community museum in Finsbury Park North London led by people with experience of homelessness
We do direct community action, independent investigations, collecting and unforgettable art. Find out more:
museumofhomelessness.org
Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social Helping you better understand web accessibility for people with disabilities. Created by @patrickmgarvin.bsky.social.
RNIB Scotland @rnibscotland.bsky.social We’re the Royal National Institute of Blind People Scotland.
Profile pic: Our logo, bold black capital letters spelling RNIB Scotland, with a pink underline and See Differently.
Header pic: RNIB Scotland community outside Hillside
linktr.ee/rnibscotland
Serena Snoad - Good Community @serenas.bsky.social Passionate about connection, culture, and carbs.
Building online communities since 2008. Founder of Good Community: https://goodcommunity.co.uk/links
Fond of London, literature and liminal spaces.
Be excellent to each other.
(Image: SewCream Studios)
Mike Keating @mkeating121.bsky.social AD, Digital Experience at Art Fund. Trying this out for content, social, design and digital stuff in charity, arts and museums
Claire Warner (she/her) @clairewarner.bsky.social Work: freelance workplace wellbeing & culture specialist for Charity, Arts & Culture, Higher Education and Public Sector orgs
Home: Wife of one, Mum of two, plus 🐴🐴🐶 based in Lancashire
Loves: 🎭 🎶 🏡 🧑🧑🧒🧒 📺 🎬 🧀 😂
Nicola Barratt @nicolabarratt4.bsky.social Digital Culture Network's Tech Champion for Social Media. Mostly posting about social media news and updates for anyone working in arts and culture in England. Views my own
James Barker @jamesabarker82.bsky.social Head of Marketing & Planning NSPCC. Coach, www.jamesbarkercoaching.com London Marathon runner @ciofundraising Convention Board member. Views my own 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dance Professionals Fund @dancefund.org.uk Dance Professionals Fund (DPF). We are an award-winning UK grant-making charity for individuals working in dance. dancefund.org.uk/links
Fawcett Society @fawcettsociety.bsky.social UK’s only member-powered org fighting sexism and misogyny in all its forms.
💷 Revolutionising Work
🤖 Creating Feminist AI
🚆 Demanding Dignity and Safety in Public Services
Join us to build a feminist future. Est. 1866
https://www.fawcettsociety.org.
ATGENDER @atgender.bsky.social The European Association for Gender Research, Education and Documentation. Our members are scholars, students and activists. Become part of our community and join as an ATGENDER member: https://atgender.eu/
Lisa Mac 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴 @lisamac11.bsky.social Artist, writer, and trustee at Norwich Pride. she/her.
I can't keep up with DM's sorry.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
Michael Rosen @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor
Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk
YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen'
Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth'
Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
Sally Hines @sallyhines.bsky.social Gender Studies & Sociology Academic, UK. Proudly deflecting from the nasty place. She/her
RSPB @rspb.bsky.social Filling these blue skies with birds, and saving nature while doing it.
🦅🦆🦉🐦🐤🐧
Our Website: https://brnw.ch/21wQQ1O
Cover photo: Aintright 📷
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/