James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social 'Fiercely hetrosexual for bluesky'
Outdoors. Politics. Sport. Not always in that order. Labour. Trade Unionist. Trying to do community things. Views entirely my own
Tom Hunter @onelifestand87.bsky.social Ruth’s husband, Andrew, Harriet & Owen’s dad, Unison member & Newcastle fan
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk Commentator, writer, corporate/political strategy. Undertaking an MSc in International Security and Global Governance at Birkbeck.
The only Tory on Bluesky, but that's why you love me.
Newsletter at: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk
Patch Thompson @patchthompson.bsky.social 🌹✊ 📸 | academic researcher | average photographer | all views my own etc.
John Walsh @nuachainteoir.bsky.social Sociolinguist at University of Galway:
language policy, Gaeilge, Cymraeg, language revitalisation, multilingualism, media, archives, politics. Posts/reposts in GA/CY/ES/CA/GL/EN. See @pirate.ie for radio history project.
Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar
kabcommons [at] gmail [dot] com
President Greater Manchester Association TUC @presidentgmatuc.bsky.social Bringing together all the Trades Councils of Greater Manchester
Erin Cunningham @erinmcunningham.bsky.social 🪬AP news director in Jerusalem; former Mideast editor + correspondent at WaPo. Previously in Cairo, Kabul, Gaza, Istanbul, Baghdad. All the pieces matter.
Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social Asst Prof, Berkeley, Political Science: 1/ Agenda Seeding http://j.mp/agenda-seeding 2/ Race as a Bundle of Sticks http://j.mp/bundle-of 3/ Text as Behavior https://cup.org/4cUmoXi 4/ Plutopopulism http://cup.org/4cfm0Az
Robert O'Sullivan @rosulli.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford and Jesus College
Historian of Immigration, Race and Nationalism in 19th Century USA.
Finishing book on Irish-American views on imperialism and anti-slavery 1840-1865
Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies @ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social CRWS is dedicated to the study of right-wing movements in the 20th and 21st centuries. crws.berkeley.edu
We publish the Journal of Right-Wing Studies, free and open access: jrws.berkeley.edu
Institute for the Study of Societal Issues @ucberkeleyissi.bsky.social Catalyzing transformative social change research at UC Berkeley & beyond
🏠 issi.berkeley.edu
Berkeley Federation of Teachers @bft1078.bsky.social CFT/AFT Local 1078
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Hugh Brechin @hughrbrechin.bsky.social Scotland's answer to some question nobody was in much of a hurry to ask. Canal photography enthusiast.
Nicola Camilleri @camilleriana.bsky.social historian of modern europe global / citizenship, colonies, militarism / postdoc in the ERC project COLVET @maynoothuniversity.ie / former fellow @italianacademy.bsky.social / PhD @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
Páraic Kerrigan @paraickerrigan.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Author and hoping for a plot twist
Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social Asst Prof. of US History at UNC Chapel Hill.
Basketball, running, cats. Go celtics go heels.
Political liberal, hoop reactionary.
Posting goodreads reviews regularly.
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social Assistant Dean of Research and Professor in English at the University of Limerick. Fan of all things Gothic. Views mine. She/her.
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Juliane Röleke @jroeleke.bsky.social Historian, Phd on West Germany and Northern Ireland during the Troubles @zzfpotsdam @huberlin
Educational Work for various Memorials & Football Clubs 
Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social Historian & curator at the Imperial War Museum in the UK - history of war, conflict and IWM collections, with digressions into #judo and #videogames. 日本語を勉強している。Posts are personal views.
Dr Emma J McAlister @emmajmca.bsky.social Belfast-based scholar & curator. APRIL 2026 Fellow. Researches sacred spaces, material religion and ritual in museums. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries.
Distracted by the casualised job market.
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review @studiesirishreview.bsky.social Studies is a cultural journal of the Irish Jesuit province, founded and in continuous publication since 1912. It examines Irish social, political, cultural and economic affairs.
www.studiesirishreview.ie
Instagram: @studiesirishreview
Gabriela Greilinger @gabrielagreilinger.com Doctoral candidate, researching what happens when the far right is in power | Radicalism/extremism & democracy, pol behaviour, "gender stuff" | Rooted in 🇦🇹🇭🇺, now in 🇺🇸 | views mine but often based on research | #firstgen Arbeiterkind gabrielagreilinger.com
Prof Alfredo Saad Filho @alfredosaadfilho.bsky.social Professor of International Political Economy, Queen’s University Belfast; visiting appointments at U of Johannesburg, LUT, U della Campania, SOAS, AU Cairo and U of Brasilia.
Political Studies @polstudies.bsky.social Flagship journal of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/home/psx
Andrea Felicetti @andreafelicetti.bsky.social Wondering about democracy, in theory and in practice. Senior Assistant Professor University of Padua
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
Melissa Shiels, PhD @melissashiels.bsky.social Early Modern Irish Historian, Dress/Fashion Historian, Dress Recreation, Living History.
Recreating historic dress since 2002 from 10th century Viking, Normal, Medieval, 1530s-1570s, late 18th-century, Regency, and mid-Victorian.
Isidora Grubački @szidora.bsky.social Historian based in Ljubljana. I research women's interwar feminist and antifascist activism and intellectual history in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and transnationally. I love 📖 🏊♀️ 🎥 & traveling.
Dr Susie Deedigan @susiedeedigan.bsky.social ARINS Programme Manager, University of Notre Dame
Research Fellow @ Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, QUB
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Historian: gender & politics modern Ireland and Britain.
PhD from QUB.
Formerly: Oxford, TCD, UC Berkeley.
Maddy Goodall @madeleineog.bsky.social heritage.humanists.uk
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)
Martine Brennan @saytheirnamesir.bsky.social Public historian #IrishSlaveholders #SouthCarolina & beyond. https://irishhistorians.ie/members/martine-brennan/ and https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/stained-and-bloodied-cloths-of-ireland-9781350445703/
Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies @usihs.bsky.social Promoting Irish History in Ulster since 1936.
https://usihs36.com/
Katy Hayward @katyhayward.bsky.social As it turns out, a Professor of Political Sociology at Queen's University Belfast working in & on the island of Ireland.
Own my own views.
http://go.qub.ac.uk/hayward 
Emily Mark-FitzGerald @emilymfg.bsky.social Professor of Art History & Cultural Policy at University College Dublin (UCD). Irish studies; art history; museums; photography; cultural omnivore. Angeleno by birth, Dubliner by choice. Mildly interesting at times.
https://people.ucd.ie/emily.mark
Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham
Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Recently also thinking about Lough Neagh. UCU rep. #firstgen
Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social Boston College Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books. Irish studies, Jesuitica, British Catholic authors, Boston history, and more
Nicholas Barnett @njbarnett.bsky.social Historian of postwar period. Cultural Encounters in the Age of Globalism, out now https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68797-6 ; occasional runner, coffee snob
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
Rory Cormac @rorycormac.bsky.social Professor: Subversion & Secret Statecraft | Author: Fakers (coming 2026); Disrupt & Deny; How to Stage a Coup; Crown, Cloak, & Dagger
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/
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Cambridge Group for Irish Studies @irishstudiescam.bsky.social Cambridge Group for Irish Studies | Seminar group exploring all aspects of Irish culture, literature and history based at the University of Cambridge | Account run by the CGIS secretary
Marianne Dhenin @mariannedhe.bsky.social crip journalist, historian, editor, organizer
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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
UC Berkeley Institute of European Studies @ucberkeleyies.bsky.social Connecting UC Berkeley and Europe | Title VI National Resource Center + Jean Monnet Center of Excellence 🇪🇺 | https://ies.berkeley.edu
207 Philosophy Hall, Berkeley, CA | ies.berkeley.edu/mailing-list
UC Berkeley @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social The official account for UC Berkeley. #GoBears 🐻
Main website: https://www.berkeley.edu/
UC Berkeley News: https://news.berkeley.edu/
Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. PhD in Religious Studies, University of Chicago. Globalist Elite, Ruthless Cosmopolitan, and Thing-in-Itself-hating Jew. Husband of @petticoatshrink.bsky.social. He/Him/הוא/ער
Michael Bell @mbellcoop.bsky.social Used to be a somebody in the Co-op Party
UK politics, NUFC & non-league football, playlists, chess, Eurovision, conlangs, cribbage
Chess Dot Com username: Heaton Bellington
FPL team: Bellwich Albion
(he/him)
James Moules @jamesmoules.bsky.social Journalist • Local Democracy Reporter covering Surrey • Bylines in The i Paper, PoliticsHome, Foreign Policy, Byline Times, Telegraph, Big Issue, New Statesman & more • Moules rhymes with roles, not rules • DM for email/WhatsApp/Signal • Views own etc.
Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social Senior Correspondent at Vox covering the crisis of global democracy. Author of The Reactionary Spirit, a book on that topic, and a '25-'26 distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.
Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.
Subscribe here: https://renewal.org.uk/ 
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/
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/
Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social Director of Research, @dairinstitute.bsky.social
Roller derby athlete
https://alex-hanna.com
Book: thecon.ai
Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k
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🏳️⚧️ she/هي
📸 @willtoft.bsky.social
Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
Anoosh Chakelian @anooshc.bsky.social Britain editor, New Statesman. Lead host, New Statesman Podcast (Publisher Podcast Award winner '21-24) & co-host Westminster Reimagined with Armando Iannucci.
Huw Bennett @bennetthuw.bsky.social Professor of International Relations, writing on British defence since 1945. In south Wales, an archive or a military museum. Permanently grateful to archivists and librarians.
Sophie Cooper @sophcocooper.bsky.social Social historian of gender, migration & public space | Nuns | Ireland & its diaspora | Senior Lecturer @QUBLiberalArts | Forging Identities in the Irish World @EdinburghUP 2022 | She/her.
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Shannon Devlin @shannondevlin.bsky.social Historian of siblings, the family, gender and sexuality, and 19th-century Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway. All my own thoughts. She/her
Thomas Leahy @thomasdmleahy.bsky.social Senior Lecturer British/Irish Politics & Contemporary History, Cardiff Uni. Research Irish Republicanism, Irish Gov & conflict legacy. Also have RR Multiple Sclerosis and Cardiff/Vale MS Society group organiser. Mavenclad since 2025. Views own.
Open Research and Public Engagement Roadmap @engagedroadmap.bsky.social Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Irish | Content Creator - 300k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕
https://theunchartedpast.com/
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire and Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
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)
Ulster Museum @ulstermuseum.org A place to inspire wonder, spark creativity, and explore our shared humanity.
🌍 Art, nature, and history to make sense of the past, present & future.
📍 Part of National Museums NI | 🔗 ulstermuseum.org
John Merrick @johnmerrick.bsky.social Deputy editor: @the-breakdown.bsky.social
johnphilipmerrick@gmail.com / john.merrick@break-down.org
https://www.johnmerrick.co.uk/
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORY’S SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
James Chalmers @jameschalmers.bsky.social Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow School of Law. Nothing should be inferred from the absence of unnecessary disclaimers on this profile.
David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social Historian, researcher, and co-editor of @renewaljournal.bsky.social
Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social Centre-left politics. Fan of AS Roma and the New York Mets, for my sins. Nerd stuff
Edward @fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social Nobody very important. Ferrets, greyhounds, poorly thought-through opinions. Englishman living in rural Northern Ireland. he/him
Theo Bertram @theobertram.bsky.social Director of the Social Market Foundation
Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social Think tanker, political speechwriter, historian.
Dr Viviane Gravey @vgravey.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in European Politics, Queen's University Belfast - #Brexit #Environment #Devolution #Agriculture #Trade #EuropeanStudies and #teaching polsci/EU
Secretary @uaces.bsky.social
Co-chair @brexitenv.bsky.social
Also music, knitting and cats..
Morgan Jones @morganj0nes.bsky.social i work for persuasion uk and i edit the journal "renewal"
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).
Steven Fielding @polprofsteve2024.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Political History. The Labour Party and other currently lost causes.
“'Tis a muddle, and that's aw.”
Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland promotes an inter-disciplinary approach to Irish studies.
ssnci.org
Duncan Morrow @duncanmorrow0.bsky.social Speaking for myself here-so all the problems are my own. And in my day job, I am Director of Community Engagement and Professor of Politics at Ulster University.
Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
Elodie Fabre @elofabre.bsky.social Lecturer in Politics at Queen’s University Belfast. Political parties, devolution. French politics and the puzzle of Macron’s party. Slow but committed knitter
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com Historian of intimacy and revolution in 1920s-40s Europe. New project: anti-Nazi vegetarians.
Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats:
archiverats.substack.com
Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social Colonial Historian, Interested in colonial veterans and all things Algeria. Proud Dub .
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.
Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social https://www.routledge.com/Britain-and-Ireland-from-the-Treaty-to-the-Troubles-Independence-and-Interdependence-c-1921-1973/Carr/p/book/9781032879871
History/politics lecturer. My views only.
Books about British-Irish relations, Blair/Clinton, Chaplin etc
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism @tbij.bsky.social The UK’s largest not-for-profit newsroom. Exposing injustice and sparking change 💪