Siobhan Poole @siobhanmup.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Medieval Studies, Premodern History and Law at Manchester University Press. She/her
Amya Agarwal @agarwalamya.bsky.social Teach & Research at University of Sheffield
Book: Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir (Bloomsbury, 2022); associate editor, IFJP; lover of autumn light🍂🔆
Views my own
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
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
David Arditi @davidarditi.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Author Digital Feudalism, Getting Signed, Streaming Culture and more. Editor Fast Capitalism 
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)
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
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/
Warwick EMECC @emeccwarwick.bsky.social The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
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.
Allan Kennedy @allankennedy.bsky.social Lecturer in Scottish History. Social and political history of early modern Scotland. Find me via the University of Dundee: https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/allan-kennedy
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
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.
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.
Elizabeth Newton-Jackson @lizzienj.bsky.social Avid crafter and PhD student. I write about early modern women, textile history, and material culture. Through textile re-construction and re-creation projects, I explore the possibilities of embodied learning as a way to unlock the past.
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
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
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)
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/
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
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
Helen Hanson 🗃️🎞️🎥🎬📚 @helenexeter.bsky.social Prof in Film History Uni of Exeter, UK | Research #FilmHistory, #WomenFilmmakers #Adaptation #FilmSound #FilmNoir. Books: Hollywood Soundscapes & Hollywood Heroines #FilmSky 🗃️🎥🎞️🎬
PI: @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
https://womensscreenwork.exeter.ac.uk/
Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social I had a marvellous time ruining everything.
Professor of Genetics @UCL, Public Humanities Fellow @SAS. Ex-President of @Humanists_UK Genetics, race, eugenics, books, cricket, +–=÷×
@kbjmanagement
adamrutherford.com
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social & Hon Fellow, STIS, Uni of Edinburgh. President @bshsnews.bsky.social #histSTM. Views own.
Formerly known as @beckyfh
https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
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! ✝️
David Olusoga @davidolusoga.bsky.social British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
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
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)
Hannah Barker @historyhannahb.bsky.social Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
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 
Alex Drace-Francis @alexdrace.bsky.social Cultural historian of modern Europe. Associate Professor @uvahumanities.bsky.social
Books: "The Making of Mămăligă", "Networks, Narratives and Nations", “Un boem la Bucureşti” &c.
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
David Luck @dluckarchivist.bsky.social Archivist at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, London, UK. Don't leave the visual world. All poorly thought out views his own, don't blame his peers/employers. Contact at 'archives' on https://tinyurl.com/58tkxrb7
He/him.
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/
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.
Emma Martin @tibetcurator.bsky.social Senior Lecturer Museology and 2026 British Academy Mid-Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. Practicing & researching Tibetan museology & material culture, past & present #Tibet #Museums #MaterialCulture #Archives #Colonialism #Provenance
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
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Louise Falcini @louisefalcini.bsky.social Interested in co-production, archives and public histories. Historian of 18thC poverty, marginal communities and cleanliness. Currently researching 19thC prisons. I did a thing here www.thomasturner.org.uk #18C
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 
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
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
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
🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴
Kate Simpson @kilmun.bsky.social Programme Convenor MSc Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow. Digital Humanist. Specialist in 19th C digital creation and curation.
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/- G Dr Gillian Williamson @georgianfun.bsky.social 18th-century British history especially reading, Gentleman’s Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
Victorian Commons @victoriancommons.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Commons 1832-1945 project, currently researching MPs, elections and parliamentary history between 1832 and 1868. Find more details on our website: https://victoriancommons.wordpress.com/
The Georgian Lords @georgianlords.bsky.social The History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the history of the Lords, Parliament and society across the 'long 18th century'.
https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
https://historyofparliament.com/the-georgian-lords/
UCL Early Modern Exchanges @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/ 
Levi Roach @proflroach.bsky.social Professor of Medieval History and Diplomatic. Deputy Head of Arch & Hist @exeter.ac.uk. Editor of charters @monumenta.bsky.social. Monographs with CUP, Yale UP and @princetonupress.bsky.social. Medievalist + Germanophile.
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!
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
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
Dr Anna Jamieson @annafranjam.bsky.social Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
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.
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social Lecturer in early modern literature at 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.
Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social Historian of class, labor, and gender in 19th century Britain, Ireland, and Empire. First-gen, non-traditional, DEI advocate. Also, old-school D&D nerd. 🏳️🌈
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
Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social Early modern historian, University of Exeter. Research Fellow: @materialwills.bsky.social. Former fellow @ihr.bsky.social; History Wrangler #HorribleHistories
https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/41880-emily-vine
NEW BOOK: https://www.cambridge.org/9781009457231
Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
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
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.
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 Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
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/
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.
Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social Associate Professor of Digital Humanities and author of 'Technology and the Historian' (Illinois, 2021).
Oliver Walton @oliverwalton.bsky.social Historian, archives and digital humanities.
Naval, maritime, royal, social; Britain and Germany. History in academia, museums, archives and beyond.
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) || Political friendship in Britain 1760-1837|| 🇦🇺 || PG Co-Convenor IHR British History in the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar
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
Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯
Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
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
Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
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 | Leverhulme ECR 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.
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.
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).
UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social UCL Press is the first fully #openaccess #universitypress in the UK. We are UCL's #openaccess publishing house. Reposting or liking ≠ endorsement.
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.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF.
🔗 https://hopenothate.org.uk