Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
VegPlotter: Online Vegetable Garden and Allotment Planner @vegplotter.com The best online Vegetable Garden & Allotment planning software to get you organised in the garden.
Fully featured garden planner vegplotter.com
Frost dates and growing zone calculator frostdates.com
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Holiday World @myholidayworld.bsky.social 🎄 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 HOLIDAY, 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞!
❤️ 𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝! #holidays365
🌏 #myholidayworld #holidaychannel
😻 #pawlidays365 pet & animal holidays
🍭 #holidaylicious food & drink holidays
www.myholidayworld.com
Joshua Shaw @joshuashaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, #USask College of Law | Legal theory and history | Medical law, ownership and use of bodies and biomaterials | He/him
Treaty 6 territory
https://linktr.ee/jdmshaw
Dr Zoe Screti @zoescreti.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow: Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford | Research Fellow: Harris Manchester College, Oxford | Historian of c.18th manuscript cultures esp. the intentional destruction of personal papers
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)
Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social Retired historian @UCMerced, early modern Britain and Atlantic world; gender, race and class. Old. Does not represent employer. What's in a name: How historians know Shakespeare was Shakespeare (Manchester 2026)
Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
Dr Imogen Knox (she/her) @imogenknox.bsky.social Historian of suicide, emotion & gender
Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/teaching_staff/knox/
Ellen Werner @ellenwerner.bsky.social Research associate in environmental histories at the University of Manchester | PhD research on "Early Modern Cultures of Reading in North West England" at the University of Manchester and Chetham's Library. She/her
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
jbessmor @jbessmor.bsky.social Ph.D., history of slavery & gendered violence. Moved here from the other place. Navigating finishing a book. In solidarity with other researchers who have lost funding. Dog person, obviously.
Kerry L @kerrymlove.bsky.social Can't be held responsible for terrible spelling or grammar in posts
I work in widening participation at a university.
Dr of political material culture in Britain 1780-1832
Interested in citizenship and radicalism
Dr Rita J. Dashwood @rjdashwood.bsky.social 🎓 Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries
📖 FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics
📚 Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen + Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
Moya Lloyd @profmoyalloyd.bsky.social Political theorist. Currently writing about embodied agency, resistance, corporeal politics, vulnerability, and marginality, drawing on feminist and critical theory. Own views.
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social 17th C maritime historian at University of Plymouth. interested in all things early modern and boaty - currently writing about women and the navy
Alasdair McNeill @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social CHASE-funded PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London. Researching women in the early modern English cheese trade. Was once a cheesemaker.
Haohao Zhang (they/he) @karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social 🔭 Early modernist | Victorian microscopy, glass slides & Blaschka models | material text, transatlantic circulation & repair | analogy as afterlife
Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com Historian of storytellers.
18th century to today & beyond.
J.W.Liles Prof of English
Words: Polygon (RIP), LARB, etc
Next book: THE ACTUAL HISTORY OF ACTUAL PLAY (MIT)
(#TTRPG digital storytelling performance)
(free) patreon.com/ecfriedman
Lynn Marriott @lynnmarriott.bsky.social A lover of all things interesting, historical and social. Midlands 4 Cities funded PhD student at University of Warwick. Enjoys studying religious nonconformity. Likes random facts and people! ✝️
Sarah Wieten @sarahwieten.bsky.social philosopher of medicine and social sciences, clinical ethicist, pedagogy enthusiast, plant lady
'pretty decent at puns'
Looking for philosophy, medicine, public health, economics, methods, meta-research, history, and bioethics people!
She/Her
@neilbaylor.bsky.social @neilbaylor.bsky.social 
Ayo Ra @irian26.bsky.social PhD International Relations (IR).
On Humans Podcast @ilarimakela.bsky.social Human origins | Global history | Econ history | Anthropology | Archaeology
Covering the story of humanity, from the evolution of apes to the making of the modern economy.
Posting as Ilari Mäkelä, host of On Humans.
https://onhumans.substack.com/about
Randy Browne @randybrowne.bsky.social Historian of Atlantic slavery & the British Caribbean | Professor | Author of THE DRIVER'S STORY: LABOR AND POWER IN THE WORLD OF ATLANTIC SLAVERY (2024) and SURVIVING SLAVERY IN THE BRITISH CARIBBEAN (2017) | randymbrowne.com 
James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social Historian of work, knowledge and capitalism (C16-18th) | Lecturer at Uni of Exeter | Author of THE ENCLOSURE OF KNOWLEDGE (CUP, 2022)
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social Lecturer in Digital History at UCL. All things census related + agrarian/industrial development of Britain 16th-19th centuries.
https://www.joshuarhodeshistorian.com/
Benjamin Casey @benjamin-casey.bsky.social PhD candidate @Maynooth University - Picturing the Irish Professions, 1760-1830
Aurélien Goutsmedt @aurelien-goutsmedt.com Postdoc @UCLouvain | ICHEC Brussels | https://aurelien-goutsmedt.com
History economics, inflation, econ policy & energy
Political econ & central banks
#Rstats #nlp #data_viz
Managing editor journals.openedition.org/oeconomia
github.com/agoutsmedt/
Umut Guner @umuttgunerr.bsky.social Historian & Academic
Medieval History | Islamic Political Thought | Turk, Arab and Persian Worlds | Social History | Islamic Societies | Sufism
Jamie Gemmell @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in early modern London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | Assistant Director, KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
Newton Key @newton-key.bsky.social Among other hats, prof emeritus Eastern Illinois University. Historian of early modern plotting, sermonizing, politicking, gossiping, printing, and detecting before detectives. Mainly British archipelago.
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
Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social British historian. Author: Cornish Wrecking, 1700-1860 | Researching c18th-19th shipwrecks, the Royal Navy & coastal communities. #CoastalHistory #NavalHistory #MaritimeHistory #SussexCoast 
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴- G Dr Gillian Williamson @georgianfun.bsky.social 18th-century British history especially reading, Gentleman’s Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
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
John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social Irishman between Yorkshire & Addis Ababa. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Writing a book about multilingual London. Learning Amharic/አማርኛ እየተማርኩ ነው. Dad!
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
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.
Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social Early modern historian researching bodies, material culture & environments at UCL https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/106276-holly-fletcher/about
'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' (OUP, 2026) https://academic.oup.com/book/62409
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Lecturer in Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge and Shakespeare’s Globe. “Yes I am the metals person” ⚒️ Can also be found letterpress printing, slowly jogging, TTRPG-ing, and pasta-making ✝️
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
Mary Fissell @maryfissell.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, sex. Part time metalsmith. Book on the long history of abortion out now! US: https://bit.ly/4iwTsoL
UK: bit.ly/4aCNEqu Substack: https://maryfissell.substack.com/
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social On Maternity Leave. Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former researcher @ #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social Early modernist needing work; Oxford Lifelong Learning & study abroad lecturing ongoing. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London'. Suicide, crime, execution, dead bodies, burial, religious outsiders (esp Quakers) & London. Co-editor How-to History
Alun Withey @dralun.bsky.social BBCRadio3/AHRC New Gen Thinker. Award-winning historian of early modern medicine, the body & beards! Senior lecturer at Exeter Uni, loves guitars, drums & *good* coffee.
Blogs at DrAlun.Wordpress.com. TikTok & Instagram: @dralunwithey
Melissa Glass @melissa-glass.bsky.social PhD candidate studying early modern English history at the University of Calgary. Working on the intersection of property law and social status in the 17th century.
melissaglasshistory.com
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.
Dr Ioannes Chountis de Fabbri @chountisdefabbri.bsky.social New here: Historian of 18th-century politics, Empire, and ideas | Edmund Burke | Whig culture.
Think tanker, Demos | Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen | Adviser, House of Lords.
Words: Engelsberg Ideas, The Critic, The London Magazine.
Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social Quondam Prof. English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. 𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔦𝔠 𝔈𝔫𝔤𝔩𝔦𝔰𝔥. Editor, Shakespeare: New Voices. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Lauren Brand @laurenbrand.bsky.social Reviews Editor @ American Historical Review. 📚 Coffee-drinker. Cross-stitch enthusiast.
https://www.historians.org/news-publications/american-historical-review/
betancur . n @nelbeu.bsky.social art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
Manon C Williams @manoncwilliams.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
Alan Matthews #ClimateCrisis #FBPE @alan-matts.bsky.social Retired IT person that now dabbles in Linux and a website for our #Ramblers group Also leads walks. Supports local #Ealing #Wildlife group with #beavers #Christian🕊️ #ClimateEmergency #FBPE #IAmEuropean #autism end of empire history #Foodbank #Ukraine #NHS
Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
Evie Nash @evienash.bsky.social AHRC-M4C funded PhD student at the University of Warwick, studying vagrancy and religious dissent in the early modern Anglo Atlantic World
Brendan Tam @brendantam.bsky.social PhD candidate (History) University of Warwick (2022-2026) || The Discourse of Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social Celtic Revivals and Imperial Cultures. Research Fellow at University of Wales (CAWCS) on C18th/19th travel in Wales, Scotland, and India. Cymrawd Oddi Cartref
Book: 'Welsh Revivalism in Imperial Britain' (2025), Francis Jones Prize Winner
He/They/Fo/Nhw
Claire Ó Nualláin @claireon.bsky.social PhD student at the Courtauld Institute, researching fine art and Protestant identity in 18th century Ireland
IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social Seminar on the history of Britain and associated regions during the long eighteenth century. Join us in London or on Zoom every other Wednesday at 17.30 GMT https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/british-history-long-18th-century
Caitlín Rankin-McCabe @rankinmccabe.bsky.social All Things Early Modern Literature • Honorary Fellow at University of Melbourne • UKRI funded PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • Maps • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social Historian of Catholicism, Italy, and environments | Lecturer and Leverhulme Fellow at Uni of Manchester | Reviews Editor at Journal of Religious History. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/joshua-rushton/
David Evans @forthepoor.bsky.social professor of history and author of the forthcoming book Damned Whiteness: How White Christian Allies Failed the Black Freedom Movement
Dr. Chase A. Thompson @chaseathompson.bsky.social Podcaster, Historian, Writer, living in Salinas, California. Check out the Interesting Pod: https://pod.link/1826088946. Doctoral degree in counseling, pursuing a history PhD. I love hiking, mystery reading, & eating cereal in perilously unhealthy volumes.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social Historian of Georgian Britain, currently researching shoes. President of @BSECS.bsky.social. Views my own but not necessarily original.
Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers.
No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social Say - No To Racism 📣
❤️ Opposing hate, inequality, and discrimination
❤️ Justice, dignity, and equality for all
❤️ Be Kind
❤️ Stronger Together
❤️ Anti-War
❤️ F*uk ICE
❤️ F*uk Trump
🚫fascists🚫bigots🚫racists🚫evil🚫maga
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
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).
Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’. Author of: Readers of Erasmus (Brill, 2026). Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
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)
Shreya Gupta @shreyagupta.bsky.social AHRC CDP PhD student at Exeter and Ashmolean Museum researching the history of collecting coins in colonial India
https://linktr.ee/Shreya.gupta11
Helen Esfandiary @helenesfandiary.bsky.social Historian of early modern & long c18th Britain. Bodies, sex, gender, medicine, motherhood & domestic knowledge. Lecturer, Herts. IHR Fellow. Lead Convenor IHR seminars: Life-Cycles & British History in the Long c18th. Mothers of Sense forthcoming with MUP.
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
Ed Selkirk Ford @edselkirkford.bsky.social Historian of democracy and empire | University of Exeter & University of Southern Denmark | Finishing a PhD on the history of parliaments in the British Empire
Amber Flood (Ní Mhaoltuile) @amberflood.bsky.social History PhD student. Interested in associational culture and knowledge exchange. Funded by the SWWDTP / AHRC. Based at the University of Exeter & Devon and Exeter Institution.
I won't bore you with my other interests.
She/her
🇮🇪
Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past!
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/