Joy Dixon @jiddix.bsky.social History. Religion. Sexuality. Plus queer/ feminist politics & pop culture on the side. UBC Vancouver. https://history.ubc.ca/profile/joy-dixon/
Mary Burgess @cambliblife.bsky.social Local history author and researcher. Local Studies Librarian for Cambridgeshire Libraries - usually found in the Cambridgeshire Collection. Bit deaf π¦». She/they.
Iago Mora @iagomora.bsky.social PhD student KCL. Previously LSE & La Caixa Fellow. Political theory and queer history.
Dr Lena Ferriday @lenaferriday.bsky.social Research Associate in histories of wild swimming @ Newcastle University
Bodies, senses, environment, materiality, the more-than-human, rural and urban modern Britain.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/lena-ferriday
Maria Hymna Ramnehill @tramslobbyn.bsky.social Journalist & literary critic. Defending my PhD-thesis (KΓΆnets grΓ€nsland: trans som narrativ effekt i postmodernitetens svenska skΓΆnlitteratur) on the history of swedish trans literature in february. Irony & anarchy.
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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social Bluesky account of the British Association for Victorian Studies
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social The Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in all aspects of nineteenth-century literature, culture and media.
Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond.
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@kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social Professor, Dept. of English, Michigan State University. Aestheticism, Decadence, modernism. Editor, with Kate Hext and Alex Murray, of Cusp: Late 19th-/ Early 20th-Century Cultures.
International Walter Pater Society @walterpatersociety.bsky.social Promoting the study and appreciation of Walter Pater (1839-1894) | Aestheticism, Decadence, and Victorian studies
Dr. Christopher Wolff @respectthecows.bsky.social PhD scholar researching trans media histories https://concordia.academia.edu/ChristopherWolff
Incoming Fellow of the FU Berlin Program https://www.fu-berlin.de/en/sites/bprogram/fellows/files/fellows_final_41.pdf
Dr Milena Schwab-Graham @milenaschwabgraham.bsky.social ECR, Visiting Scholar at Uni of Leeds. Feminism, modern & contemporary lit, affect, activism in literature, env hums, med hums, place writing, transnationalism. She/her
Nick Hubble @thehubble101.bsky.social Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher & critic. Author: Culture Wars in Britain (May, 2026). Columnist at Vector. Incoming editor of Foundation.
Nonbinary (they/them)π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ.
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Dr Catherine Freeman @catgqf.bsky.social Sometimes a girls' education historian, at other times at work down the history mines, finding treasure.
IHR Life Cycles seminar administrator.
Allotment keeper and one of those annoying cyclists who uses cycle lanes and obeys traffic lights.
Lola Dickinson @loladickinson.bsky.social historian, PhD @BirkbeckUoL on sex work, public health and HIV/AIDS in late 20thc Britain ππΉ she/her π
Trans+ Solidarity Alliance @transsolidarity.bsky.social Fighting for trans+ rights, together.
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https://www.transsecretsanta.co.uk/
hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social Chancellor's Fellow, a university in Scotland / Lead Judge, a literature prize
Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social Bisexual history, queer history, cats. she/her
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
Amy Hall @amyh4ll97.bsky.social PhD student, history of medicine and psychiatry | illness narratives, experience, identity politics π
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Fraser Riddell @fraserriddell.bsky.social Teaches English. Research in Victorian literature, medical humanities, sensory studies, queer things, music π΅ π³οΈβπ Leads the Affective Experience Lab, Durham. 
Hilary Buxton @hbuxton.bsky.social Bodies, care + medicine in the British Empire // Associate Professor of History @ Kenyon College // Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain (U Chicago Press, 2026)
Perry Zurn @perryzurn.bsky.social Prof @AmericanU. Interested in political theory, social movements, LGBTQ life, and fungi. Author @UMinnPress @mitpress @dukepress https://www.perryzurn.com/
Thomas Dixon @profthomasdixon.bsky.social Year 6 teacher. Historian of emotions. Honorary Professor at QMUL. Author. Broadcaster.
samantha riedel @samanthawrites.net very tired freelance word girl | member, @transjournalists.org
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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.
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Alice Raw @aliceraw.bsky.social Historian of medieval gender and sexuality
Currently writing about pleasure and protests
Mark Kaplanoff Fellow in History, Pembroke College Cambridge
Errol π¦π³οΈβπ @eerieseymour.bsky.social Award-nominated Writer and Narrative Designer. Queer historian of queer history. Nightmare enthusiast. Editor. Bisexual. Cat owner. Listen, how long have you got?
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Elwin Hofman @elwinhofman.bsky.social Historian | Crime, emotions, sexuality & self 18-20C | Assistant Professor & MSCA fellow Cultural History Utrecht University | Latest books: The Business of Pleasure | Trials of the Self
Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) π³οΈβπ @benwt.bsky.social Literary Historian. Working on Women's Writing, Book History, Material Culture, Dig Hums, Race, & Heritage.
Senior RA and PI, 'The Remarkable History of Barley Wood' @bristolunienglish.bsky.social
RA, 'Inclusive Histories', @royalholloway.bsky.social
Alan β¨ @alanlee99.bsky.social 
Norfolk Record Office @norfolkro.bsky.social Norfolk Record Office collects and preserves unique archives relating to the history of Norfolk and makes them accessible across the world.
The Transexual Menace @transexualmenace.bsky.social Anyone can be a Menace!
Founded by @denisenorris.bsky.social and @rikiwilchins.bsky.social in 1992, it was the first trans-rights direct action group.
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Zoe Neubauer @zneubauer.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University, studying trans identity in the UK, 1970-2004
Joel White @joeljoel.bsky.social Friends In Common out now, come say hi on the tour : https://linktr.ee/friendsincommon @friendsincommon.bsky.social π³οΈβππ
GLARC tapes / Communal Leisure
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IHR History of Sexuality Seminar @histsex.bsky.social Tweets from the History of Sexuality Seminar at the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social), London | Web: https://t.co/9fxieQfFZ9 | Youtube: http://tinyurl.com/2784plj6
Tim Jerrome @timjerrome.bsky.social Doctoral student at Brighton researching gay and lesbian histories in rural England. Also a writer, gamer, enthusiastic but hopeless tennis player, and fan of all dogs with facial hair
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Modern British Studies Association @modbritstud.bsky.social The Modern British Studies Association offers a thriving, interdisciplinary space for debate and intellectual exchange relating to British history, society, politics and culture at its regular Modern British Studies conferences.
https://modbritstud.org.uk/
Ruari P-A @rulapeep.bsky.social PhD at Cambridge University on 'Outsider music,β listening, intimacy across time & radical creativity - convenor of Ambivalent Archives - queer utopian & abolitionist always π΅πΈ
They/them
Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social Activist, punk musician, event promoter, feminist academic. Illegal lesbian.
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IHR Black British History Seminar @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social 'Black British History: Concepts, Geographies, Debates' covers all aspects of Black British history from the ancient to the contemporary. @ihr.bsky.social
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
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Jonathan Moss @jmoss88.bsky.social Political historian at University of Sussex. Currently researching ageing and political understandings in modern Britain.
Celestine S. Kunkeler @celestinekunkeler.bsky.social Academic, historian, degenerate
I research the radical right, fascists, and reactionary nonsense about sexual and gendered deviance.
UK-based.
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
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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social 
Emily Calcraft @emily-calcraft.bsky.social History PhD Candidate - University of Sheffield- Inter-war pacifism. Editorial Assistant @ Immigrants & Minorities Journal.
Michael Ledger-Lomas @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social I write about kings and prophets. Vancouver, BC.
Jordan Windholz @jwindholz.bsky.social Prof at Shippensburg U, Shax and Renaissance Lit. Author of The Single Life, out now from University of Alabama Press, and the poetry collections Other Psalms (Vassar Miller Prize), and The Sisters (Black Ocean). www.jordanwindholz.com
Hannah S @hannahsto.bsky.social PhD student @ Oxford/Museum of the Home π―ββοΈπ―ββοΈ Researching youth, gender and queerness in the 19th/20th century (she/her)
Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social 
Meredith Carroll @historicalmeredith.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
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
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
Oxford History Faculty LGBTQ+ Network @hflgbtq.bsky.social critically rethinking queer history at oxford university π£π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈ
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Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
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.
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, β4 Genealogies of Careββ¦ all things CARE, really
Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social Author, speaker, and organizer. PhD researching political philosophy, social movements, and trans history. She/her
Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social A magazine of ideas, politics, and culture, committed to the power of collective reasoning and imagination to create a more just world.
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ROLES Sexuality & Gender Studies Network @rolesbham.bsky.social A postgraduate led and focused network for those researching in Sexuality and Gender Studies. Led by students at the University of Birmingham, but open to all researching in these areas, at any level!
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Jay Todd π³οΈββ§οΈ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social Non-binary researcher of trans lives in the UK. Human geographer. ABBA devotee. Geordie in Glasgow. they/them
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/staff/jaytodd/
Heather Sadiq @heathersadiq.bsky.social PhD historian studying Drag in Film 1945-1980. Funded by
@sheffielduniπΈ Lover of Gender, Sexuality and Queer Historyπ
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
David Amigoni @amigonidavid.bsky.social Prof of Victorian Lit @Keele University and Dir of Institute of Social Inclusion. Loves doing cultural stuff in Stoke-on-Trent and beyond
Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social Historian of identities, education and social movements in modern Britain. Interested in antiracism and pedagogy. Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Kings College London.
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
Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social A multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine with an enduring commitment to the written word. https://lareviewofbooks.org/
Jarett Henderson @jaretthenderson.bsky.social Historian of colonial Canada living in California.
Thomas JW (they/them) @thefivetonine.bsky.social An infrequent - and probably incoherent - miscellany. Scholar of fashion, dress and non-binary genders. Also lectures on sex, sexuality and social issues, and runs The Five to Nine Studio: a queer, peripatetic and generalist creative studio. π³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈπͺπΊπ΅πΈ
Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org We use the law to resist hate and bring hope. Injustice is not inevitable.
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Rosa Campbell @rosavcampbell.bsky.social Historian of global feminism & believer in ππ π¦πππββοΈ πΉ π
Author of The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared (April '26)
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College.
PhD from Cambridge. Homesick Australian.
www.rosa-campbell.com
What The Trans?! π³οΈββ§οΈ @whatthetrans.com News outlet for trans people, by trans people
Podcasts, articles and live reporting
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Sabrina Imbler @sabs.bsky.social charismatic megafauna at Defector
books How Far the Light Reaches & Dyke (geology)
newsletter Creatures NYC π€ https://buttondown.com/simbler/
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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social Author & queer historian. MY BAD: A PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE QUEER 90S AND BEYOND is available for preorders now! Previously: The Womenβs House of Detention (2022) and When Brooklyn Was Queer (2019) linktr.ee/HughRyan
Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social "Queer theory running riot," according to my detractors.
www.trickymothernature.com
Professor Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham. c18th history, letters, body and Mary Toft (the woman who gave birth to rabbits). PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
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
Trans+ History Week @transhistoryweek.com Official page for Trans+ History Week.
Key calendar week wordwide.
May 04-10 2026
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Chris Lloyd @cilloyd.bsky.social he/him. associate prof, poet, writer, host of βbooks up closeβ and coeditor of seaford review journal π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβππ΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώπ΅πΈ
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Christyn Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in history. Views my own. Historian of US politics and sexuality, especially Sumner Welles. Canadian. Non-binary (she/they) Fabulous.
Michael Waters @michaelwaters.bsky.social writer, THE OTHER OLYMPIANS (out now!)
Eve Colpus @evecolpus.bsky.social Historian. University of Southampton. Researching children and young peopleβs telephone cultures in 1980s and 1990s Britain #telephonicyouth
pronouns are she/her 
NOTCHES Blog @notchesblog.bsky.social NOTCHES is a collaborative and international history of sexuality blog that aims to get people inside and outside the academy thinking about histories of sex and sexualities in the past and in the present across regions, periods and themes.
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
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
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call βmental healthβ | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
Giugiu (they/them) π³οΈββ§οΈπ³οΈβππ΅πΈ @drgiugiu.bsky.social "Some are born to Sweet Delight" William Blake
Non-Binary Trans Genderfluid | Queer | Pansexual
Vegan | Neurodivergent
PhD Cambridge Uni '22
philosopher turned neuroscientist turned librarian. Jivamukti yoga teacher&buddhist. art lover. Unionize!
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
kyla piccin π @kylapiccin.bsky.social phd @ university of cambridge || researching policing and security in canadian resource extraction, and environmental governance || she/her
Julien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social https://julienporquet.org/
PhD Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
I study how people (and sometimes machines) look together and against each other.
π MontrΓ©al
Arunima Datta (PhD, FRHistS) @migrationhistorian.bsky.social Historian. Author. Associate Professor.
Studies: Britain, British Empire, South & Southeast Asia, womenβs history, migration history
Author of:
Waiting on Empire: Ayahs in Britain (OUP, 2023)
Fleeting Agencies: Coolie women in Malaysia (CUP, 2021)
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for womenβs history!
The Womenβs History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about womenβs & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
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American Historical Association @historians.org The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions.
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