Nancy MacLean @nancymaclean.bsky.social Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.
Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
XFR Collective @xfrcollective.bsky.social All-volunteer at-risk media crew working toward a mutual donation nation
xfrcollective.org
Chris Dixon @withmovements.bsky.social Alaskan | activist, writer, educator | author of For the Long Haul | member of Punch Up Collective | committed resident of Ottawa, Ontario, on unceded Algonquin territory | unrepentantly earnest | he/him | www.writingwithmovements.com
Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. Co-author of "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025)
Bert Russell @bertrussell.bsky.social Senior Fellow ICTA at UAB
Author "Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green and Democratic Future" (2025) & “Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services” (2025)
Preorder books: https://linktr.ee/Bertierussell
Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
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
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power @identitiesjournal.bsky.social Social sciences journal publishing new research on #identities, #race, #ethnicity & #culture since 1994. Published by Taylor & Francis. https://linktr.ee/identitiesjournal
Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
Vivien Chan @inoutofpractice.bsky.social Sowing seeds 🌱 Making sensations 💫 (Dr, she/they)
Design historian, educator, image maker.
Hong Kong, design history, material/visual/spatial culture, everyday.
@iias.bsky.social Asia in the World Fellow.
https://vivienchan.co.uk/
Workers Inquiry Dot Work @workinquirywork.bsky.social Workers Inquiry Dot Work is an initiative to conduct workers’ inquiries and first-person narratives of work in the US. Contact: workinquirywork@proton.me
dpr-barcelona @dpr-barcelona.bsky.social Independent research studio and publishing house which operates in the fields of architecture, political theory, and the social milieu. Co-founded by @ethelbaraona.bsky.social and @cerreyes.bsky.social
📍 https://dpr-barcelona.com/
BSA Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Study Group @bsa-asmr.bsky.social The Activism, Social Movements and Revolutions Group of @britsoci.bsky.social. See our website to join: https://www.britsoc.co.uk/groups/study-groups/activism-social-movements-and-revolutions-study-group/about/ #Sociology
Liam J. Liburd @liamliburd.bsky.social Historian who works on Black British history and the history of whiteness and the white supremacist movement in 20th century Britain. Views those of someone living through interesting times.
Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery @cslbs.bsky.social Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery
Department of History, University College London
ucl.ac.uk/history/cslbs
The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social The Funambulist is a magazine and a podcast engaging with the politics of space and bodies.
We have a francophone version as well!
https://thefunambulist.net/shop/67-diasporic-introspections
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social Researching racism, anti-racism and ethnic, racial and religious inequalities.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/codemcr
Website: http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Beth Gaskell @bethgaskell.bsky.social Lead Curator, News & Moving Image at the British Library. Researcher of press history, military-media relations, and social and literary history in the long 19th century. Views all my own.
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
Thea Kruse @theakruse.bsky.social PhD researcher, 20th/21st c history of borders (FR/UK/EU), mobilities, migration @ SFB 1604 Production of Migration (EUF / IMIS UOS)
Terry Dunne @peelersandsheep.bsky.social New documentary short ‘Land and Revolution’ out now - https://youtu.be/9KUqvXjlHts?si=Dhn-BXZTHQHbF51v
New edited volume ‘Spirit of Revolution’ - https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/spirit-of-revolution
Rachel Matthews @provnewshistory.bsky.social Journalist-turned-academic with a focus on all things local news. Currently working on the salvage and uses of local newspaper archives. Spare-time sculler.
George Padmore Institute @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social Community archive of black grassroots activist and cultural movements associated with John La Rose and Sarah White, co-founders of New Beacon Books, and many others. Testimony to the creativity and resilience of black resistance.
https://linktr.ee/thegpi
Alva Gotby @alvagotby.bsky.social Author of They Call it Love (2023) and Feeling At Home (2025)
versobooks.com/en-gb/products/3212-feeling-at-home
Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social Stay alive another week
patreon.com/deathpanelpod
Conjuncture @conjuncture.bsky.social Conjuncture is a podcast curated and co-produced by @jordantcamp.bsky.social and @cheatherton.bsky.social with support of the Trinity Social Justice Institute.
Watch or listen here: https://trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-podcast/
Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social A reader-funded newspaper that truly sits outside the established system and answers only to the public.
Subscribe for exclusive content in the Byline Times monthly print edition: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
Visit our website: bylinetimes.com
Libraries for the People @librariesftp.bsky.social A leftist library project
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow at KCL, working on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
we here®️ @wehere.bsky.social community for BIPOC library workers first. 🌿 community school + community study + we here press + we reads + we together.
The Social History Archive @socialhistarchive.bsky.social The Social History Archive empowers academic researchers, tutors and students with unparalleled access to British and Irish historical content.
The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT) @jrct.bsky.social A Quaker grant-making organisation supporting those who address the root causes of conflict and injustice.
https://linktr.ee/jrct_
Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Ian Hunt @ianhunt.bsky.social art, architecture, environment & politics | former UKHE worker | GPEW (but here as a civilian) | chief distractions: novels, poetry, botany, buildings | he/him | Green Light (2006)
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social i work across nyc’s libraries and archives; i was a full professor of media studies, art history + anthropology
architecture, archives, 🎨, cities, 🐕, infrastructure, libraries, 🗺️, sound++
nyc + upstate
wordsinspace.net
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social Editor & host of @the-breakdown.bsky.social
Fellow @cmmonwealth.bsky.social
Carolina Alves @cacrisalves.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics, IIPP-UCL. 🇵🇸 💔
Book: Labour, Value and Capitalism: A study of the Poverty of Philosophy (1847) by Karl Marx, 2024. Editora Dialética
Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/91802-carolina-alves/about
South Side Weekly @southsideweekly.bsky.social News, arts, and investigations by and for Chicago's South Side. southsideweekly.com
Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social MapReader, computational history, history of infrastructure and information. Writing a book about people & highways in 18th c. France. Based in Pittsburgh these days.
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
@leedsmuseums.bsky.social @leedsmuseums.bsky.social
Radical Poster Collective @radicalposters.bsky.social We are a non-profit collective of socialist trade unionists formed in 2022, united by our appreciation of radical posters.
https://radicalpostercollective.co.uk/
International Association of Labour History Institutions @ialhi.bsky.social IALHI brings together archives, libraries, documentation centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour and social movements from all over the world. More information: ialhi.org
intercomverlag @intercomverlag.bsky.social scholar-led publishing collective — history — STS | www.intercomverlag.ch
http://intercom-mono.com | http://cache.ch | http://aether.ethz.ch | http://entropie.ethz.ch
Global Environment. A Journal of Transdisciplinary History @globalenvironment.bsky.social A Journal of Transdisciplinary History published by The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social
#envhist #envhum
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.
CPERN @cpern.bsky.social The Critical Political Economy Research Network of the ESA
Subscribe here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=POLITICAL-ECONOMY-RN
Website: https://criticalpoliticaleconomy.net/
Prometheus Magazine @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social Renewing communist politics in the 2020s
Marxism in Culture @marxisminculture.bsky.social The Marxism in Culture seminar series was conceived in 2002 to provide a forum for those committed to the continuing relevance of Marxism for cultural analysis. We meet 3-4 times a term on Fridays at 5.30pm at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
History: Reviews of New Books @histbooks-reviews.bsky.social Publishes reviews of books on historical topics that covers all geographic areas and time periods, from ancient times to the present.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/vhis20
Working Class Movement Library @wcmlibrary.bsky.social Putting class back on the agenda.
History of Communism @historyofcommunism.bsky.social History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism 🗃️
otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social A magazine of storytelling and ethnography #openaccess
Long reads | Short Stories | Poetry | Visual Essays | Sounds |
ISSN 2752-3659
http://otherwisemag.com
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
@leedsanimation.bsky.social @leedsanimation.bsky.social
Bench Ansfield @benchansfield.bsky.social asst prof of history at temple // they/them
BORN IN FLAMES: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City (W.W. Norton, August 19)
https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324093510
@melindacooper.bsky.social @melindacooper.bsky.social
The Dig @thedigradio.bsky.social Daniel Denvir’s Jacobin podcast on politics, history, and economics everywhere.
Host: @danieldenvir.bsky.social
Producer: @alexjrlewis.bsky.social
Listen at http://thedigradio.com
Give $$ http://patreon.com/user?u=4839800
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Siobhán McGuirk @siobhan.bsky.social Researching, writing & teaching on immigration, LGBTQI+ rights, social movements, queer culture, art, film /// PhD Anthropology /// Editor Red Pepper magazine /// Book: Asylum for Sale
Left Cultures Publishing @leftcultures.bsky.social Left Cultures publishers magazines and zines celebrating and supporting all forms of culture creation across the Left, through personal storytelling and expressive illustration.
www.leftcultures.com - comrades@leftcultures.com
Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Bergis Jules 🇱🇨 @bergisjules.bsky.social Archivist for shiftcollective.us & archivingtheblackweb.org
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Cities Politics Economies Research Group, UoM @cperguom.bsky.social Cities Politics Economies Research Group, Geography, SEED, University of Manchester
AIU RACE Centre @aiucentre.bsky.social Library and archive of material on race, ethnicity and migration. Dedicated to fighting racism. Located in Central Library, MCR
Links- https://linktr.ee/aiucentremcr
The Hippies Now Wear Black @thehippiesnowwearblack.org.uk Supporting a range of projects on the history, culture, politics and practice of British anarcho-punk, 1977-1984
Lynne Segal @lynne-segal.bsky.social Left feminist
Justin Bengry @justinbengry.bsky.social Historian of Capitalism and the Pink Pound (he/him)
Writer | Speaker | Traveller
Editor: @historyworkshop.org.uk
Founder: @notchesblog.bsky.social
Convenor: @histsex.bsky.social
justinbengry.com
Semiotexte @semiotexte.bsky.social Semiotext(e) publishes works of theory, fiction, madness, economics, satire, sexuality, science fiction, activism and confession.
https://www.semiotexte.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
Luca Csepely-Knorr @lucaknorr.bsky.social Landscape architect, art historian, Professor at Liverpool School of Architecture interested in history, gender and climate futures. Mum of two great kids and a vizsla. PI Women of the Welfare Landscape https://www.virtual-lsa.uk/womenofthewelfarelandscape
LCC municipal @lccmunicipal.bsky.social London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc.
lccmunicipal.com
Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social Architectural historian, lecturer, author, specialising in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, esp 20s/30s; expert on women & architecture 1890s to the present. New book out now: https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/palace-of-the-ether
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
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
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
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
David Harvey @davidharvey.org Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social https://academic.oup.com/tcbh
Modern British History publishes peer reviewed work in modern British history. We skeet our articles, reviews, and the latest British history news. Formerly 'Twentieth Century British History'.
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
Rachel Collett @racheljcollett.bsky.social PhD on the Merseyside Women’s Movement 1969-1990s + teaching history at University of Liverpool 🎓
Keen rambler, morris dancer, founder of Common Folk Collective 🌞
Latest article: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwaf017
Eve Worth @evemworth.bsky.social Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS).
No General But Ludd, No Ipswich #10 but Chaplin
Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him)
Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
IHR Britain @ Home and Abroad seminar @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social Find our programme here: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/britain-home-and-abroad
MichaelLondonSF @michaellondonsf.bsky.social semi-retired / activist on London housing and planning / UCL Bartlett / grandfather JustSpace.org.uk michaeledwards.org.uk
I don't follow people with empty bios.
Forensic Architecture @forensicarchi.bsky.social Investigating state and corporate violence globally, presenting our findings from the courtroom to the gallery. Based at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Repeater Books @repeaterbooks.bsky.social We are alive and we don't agree.
linktr.ee/repeater_books
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social
Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
linktr.ee/common.wealth
Voluntary Action History Society @vahs.bsky.social VAHS aims to promote the study of voluntary action history and to develop an understanding of this history for the public, for academics, and for people working in the voluntary sector.