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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social The national charity campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built Heritage. Join us! linktr.ee/victoriansociety Non-Governmental & Nonprofit Organization in England and Wales
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Spode Museum @spodemuseum.bsky.social On the original Spode Works, Elenora St, Stoke. Exhibitions, tours, art gallery and huge vintage china shop. Free entry.
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
Claire Titley @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social Archivist. Shropshire lass in Leytonstone. Interests include London history, books, hills, art, architecture. 🐈‍⬛ 🇵🇸
Christine Cipriani @christinecipriani.bsky.social Architecture and history / Biography of Ada Louise Huxtable forthcoming (Norton, Mar. '27) / Coauthor, CAPE COD MODERN (Metropolis)
Ian Martin @ianmartin.bsky.social The Thick of It. The Death of Stalin. Veep. The Hartlepool Spy. Epic Space. Broken English. Avenue 5. Unhinged, and other books. Guardian, Architects' Journal, iPaper, Observer, whatever. Grandpa. STATE PENSIONER.
Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Historian of capitalism, pollution, Marseille, farming, land use, plastics, climate, and economic growth; misanthrope; hockey player; expert baker; amateur gardener; works at St Anne's College at Oxford; lives in York (the old one).
Freya Marshall Payne @fmarshallpayne.bsky.social Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | 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).
Emma Dwyer @edwyer.bsky.social Historical Archaeologist & Brummie-in-exile. Head of Grant-Funded Research at MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology). Hon. Research Fellow at @archanchistleic.bsky.social
Malcolm Russell @malcolmrussell73.bsky.social Historian of 20th century Britain / PhD researcher in drug history (from Sept ‘26) / Author of Mudlark’d (Princeton University Press)
Miles Glendinning @milesglendinning.bsky.social historian of mass housing (global + HK). New HK housing history: https://www.routledge.com/Hong-Kong-Public-Housing-An-Architectural-and-Policy-History/Glendinning/p/book/9781138680227. Global housing archive: https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2927
Fern @fern-nesme.bsky.social
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick Writing a global history of urban disasters for @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Gareth Millward @millieqed.bsky.social Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK 19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
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
Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Senior Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge. PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Dr Rosamund Lily West @rosamundlilywest.bsky.social Lecturer | Historian | Curator Lecturing @unioftheartslondon and @westdean | PhD on post-war LCC sculpture and housing @KingstonSchArt | Fellow @RoyalHistSoc (she/her)
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
Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social Artist; have written, and curated, also. Head of Programme, Writing MA, at the RCA, London. jeremymillar.org Profile: https://jeremymillar.org/Notes-on-Gesture-for-H-C-2015 Header: https://jeremymillar.org/Neutral-Diluted-2007
Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast. Latest book - MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY (2024) - Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary Website: https://www.kieranconnell.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
Harriet Richardson Blakeman @harrietrichardsonb.bsky.social Architectural historian, formerly at the Survey of London, long standing interest in hospital buildings. University of Edinburgh PhD ‘Medicine and Modernity’. Living in Scotland. Website: https://historic-hospitals.com/
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com she/they
Alexandra Lange @langealexandra.bsky.social Design critic, author, 1970s, malls, kids, Marimekko // more at www.alexandralange.net
Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social art historian, Aberdonian https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-craig-clunas https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/craig-clunas-FBA/
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester http://andrew-seaton.com
Lynn Pearson @lynnpearson67.bsky.social Architectural historian and early portable buildings enthusiast, working on a book about 'tin tabernacles' (and suchlike) and their wooden friends
@gkt-wales.bsky.social @gkt-wales.bsky.social BBC Journalist. I’m interested in science, history, art, folklore, music, sport, food and drink. Also MW7GKT in my spare time.
Jonathan Woods @jonathanwwoods.bsky.social Operations manager, @c20society.bsky.social Editor Here for theatre, books, art and food London 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain @thesahgb.bsky.social Bringing together all those interested in the built environment's history. All Periods, All Places, All Welcome. www.sahgb.org.uk
Isobel Muir @irmuir.bsky.social enthusiast.
Jamie Muir @jamiembrixton.bsky.social The world viewed from Brockwell Park in South London.
the modernist @themodernist.bsky.social magazine, bookshop, gallery, publisher, events. 20th century architecture & design. a non profit social enterprise. https://the-modernist.org/ https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/themodernist
Coco Whittaker @cocowhittaker.bsky.social Heritage Consultant at Purcell | Shropshire born & Walthamstow based
Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social 'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
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
Pär Hedefält @prhedefalt.bsky.social pedestrian architect, Malmö
Jo Nightingale @musicandmuseums.bsky.social South Manchester/North Cheshire Britpop goth in South London, guide at John Soane's Museum, former PR, copy-writer and Gothic MA. Expect music, architecture, history, place, ceramics and other old tat, art, screen and my cats. Left and proud.
lAwReNcE bLaCk @lawrenceblack.bsky.social https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or the history of where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
Mike @mikeyashworth.bsky.social Ex-London Underground and retired back to "The North" - transport, design history, things industrial, architecture & heritage - all tickle my fancy. Postings often link to my Flickr account for more things!
Joss Durnan @jossdurnan.bsky.social You want to know about Irvine New Town? Of course you do.
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/
VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023) ... new book out soon 'Covent Garden: A People's History' (Yale, 2027)
India Wright @indiawright.bsky.social Cambridge PhD candidate examining the architecture of the Inns of Court during the C17 • Editor of the London Topographical Society Newsletter • Mother to small children
Isokon Gallery @isokongallery.bsky.social This iconic 1934 apartment block was once home to emigré Bauhaus masters, Agatha Christie, Soviet spies, and more. Open from March to the end of November, 11 am - 4 pm, Saturdays and Sundays, and on the last Friday of each month. https://isokongallery.org/
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social Architectural historian based in Cambridge (UK). Interested in early modern history, especially Venice, the Veneto, eastern Mediterranean. Gardens, landscape, cultural geography. Venetian painting.
gillian rose @profgillian.bsky.social digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
Karen Averby 🌊 @karenaverby.bsky.social karenaverby.co.uk Buildings Historian/Consultant Seaside Heritage, House History, Hotels, Architecture, Local History, Archaeology, Other Delights Director ArchangelHeritage.co.uk FRHistS ACIfA Extreme Seagazer/ex-Archivist Rep PastPreservers Brum/London
Traffic in Towns @trafficintowns.bsky.social I'm Traffic in Towns - also known as The Buchanan Report – I was published Nov 25th, 1963. I shaped how much of the UK looks and how you move around. OGL V3.0 https://trafficintowns.uk - now digital from Nov 25th, 2024 in 250+ languages.
Ellie Brown @elliebrown.bsky.social Researcher, writer. Looking at twentieth-century architecture and design (shopping centres, public art, urban space, interior design). emadeleinebrown.com
Tom Goodwin @tomgoodwin.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying the architectural and urban history of Britain in the 1990s and early 2000s https://www.midlands4cities.ac.uk/student_profile/tom-goodwin/
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
Jack O'Connor @jackstanoconnor.bsky.social Cultural Historian New project researching 1980s Hulme, Manchester - https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/about/our-people/institute-staff/hulme-manchester/ History PhD from Sussex Uni on the New Universities of the 1960s.
Dr Emma Nuding @eknuding.bsky.social Lancaster-based medievalist working on this Southampton project: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=UKRI4381 📍🌊🌎 Author of this book: https://boydellandbrewer.com/book/writing-st-guthlac-hb/ 📖
will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social historian of witchcrafts, tarot, folklore, France 18-20th century ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic also #CreativeHistories yes, that’s an actual photo of me. never had ebola. yet
Dr Tom May @dreamcargoes.bsky.social Television historian, writing a book about Play for Today (BBC1, 1970-84). Associate Lecturer, Northumbria University. Book Reviews Admin for Critical Studies in Television journal.
Kit Kowol @kitkowol.bsky.social Recovering academic turned parliamentary clerk. Author of Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War. Brisbane, Australia. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/blue-jerusalem-9780198868491?cc=us&lang=en&
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/
Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly. Chair @seasidenetwork.bsky.social Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social Media agent @pastpreservers.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry
@C20Cymru @c20cymru.bsky.social Campaigning to save modern architecture and design heritage in Wales / Ymgyrchu i achub pensaernïaeth a ddylunio fodern yng Nghymru http://c20society.org.uk
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social Producer of arts docs, screen performance; posts by John Wyver, Professor of the Arts on Screen, Univ of Westminster; expect broadcasting history, esp early TV, theatre, film, visual art Images: Magic Rays of Light / de Stael, Le Saladier (detail), ‘54
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Kathryn Holliday @kehcalling.bsky.social Architecture and landscape history, Historic preservation, museums, and cultural heritage. Biallas Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Transplant from Texas and New Orleans. Working on Telephone City 📞
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social Buildings (mainly post-war) & politics. Insightful musings stolen? Procrastinator. Cornish/living in Edinburgh. Attempting PhD on New Labour and built heritage.
David Lawton @davidlawton.bsky.social
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Sadie Levy Gale @slevygale.bsky.social Fellow in Applied History at the Institute of Historical Research. Research interests in social welfare, urban reform and visual culture in early twentieth-century Britain. Associate editor at @the-polyphony.bsky.social
Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social Music, architecture, photography, design etc. Sharing my concert photos taken in Birmingham in 81/82 (hence the name). Plus other stuff I've hoarded
Mark Kirby @markkirby.bsky.social Architectural historian, C17 church architecture & furnishings. Chairman of Council of the Ecclesiological Society.
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Modernism in Metro-Land @modinmetro.bsky.social Art Deco, Modernism and Brutalism in London's suburbs and beyond. https://www.modernism-in-metroland.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
Emily Cole @emilyvcole.bsky.social Senior architectural historian at Historic England. Expert in early modern country houses, C20 pubs and various things in between. FSA. Book on the Woolwich Rotunda forthcoming. Own views.
Saima Nasar @saimanasar.bsky.social Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. No access to DMs. PI: Welfare, Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
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/
Kathryn A Morrison @kathrynmorrison.bsky.social Architectural and Retail Historian (FSA FRHistS). ‘Chain Stores’ published May 2025. Website: buildingourpast.com Also expect posts about Romanesque sculpture (CRSBI fieldworker, Hampshire) and the Western Isles.
Miri Rubin @mirierubin.bsky.social Historian, study the ‘Middle Ages’, work at the great School of History at Queen Mary University of London.
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Effie Gee @k8iosk.bsky.social Urban Planner. Lover of modernist architecture and the K8 kiosk. Currently researching the history of the BT's disappearing range of KX Phoneboxes. Woke. Whovian. Dad.
Susie Fielding @susiefielding.bsky.social Historic Buildings Investigator @ Royal Commission Wales | Nonconformist Chapels | C20 Built Heritage | Digital Technologies in Heritage | Countryside & Dogs | O Gymru - Dysgwr | Personal Account
Paul Williams @paulwilliams207.bsky.social Academic with a passion for culture, crafts, heritage, tourism, football and all things place. Also potty about ceramics and plate-turning to check out backstamps! Nil Satis Nisi Optimum 💙
Dave 'Him Over There' Proudlove 🏴‍☠️ @daveproudlove.bsky.social Writer - urbanism, place, football, buildings, music | Published by Pitch Publishing | Appears in Tribune, Football Heritage, Brum Dispatch, & others | Socialist | #MDANT | LM ♥️ | Dad to Dylan 'King of obscurity' - KFC
Douglas Murphy @entschwindet.bsky.social I spend my days in an architecture school I've written some books Chatting about music, culture, politics etc etc
Tom Wilkinson @tmowilkinson.bsky.social historian of art and architecture tmowilkinson.com
Olly Wainwright @ollywainwright.bsky.social Architecture and design critic of the @theguardian.com oliver.wainwright@theguardian.com https://www.theguardian.com/profile/oliver-wainwright
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain. https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons https://historyofpublicspace.uk Croydon and Rochdale @ruralmodernism on Insta. 🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ ally. She/her
John Grindrod @grindrod.bsky.social Social historian of modern places. Tales of the Suburbs, on LGBTQ+ history, out now. Wrote Concretopia and Outskirts. Disappointingly unserious. Podcast: Monstrosities Mon Amour Find out more: https://linktr.ee/johngrindrod