James Connolly @drjamesconnolly.bsky.social Historian at UCL SELCS specialising in modern France and Europe, the First World War, and military occupation. Other interests include film, TV, gaming, and comedy (especially puns). Very occasional stand-up comedian (13 performances so far).
Lurig Drama Cushendall @lurigdrama.bsky.social Christine for a tiny drama group in the beautiful Glens of Antrim
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
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Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
Dr Felicity McGeown @fmcgeown.bsky.social Anthropologist, Historian and Researcher, Consultant with Disabled Students UK, Project Officer with Pride Cymru for the Stronger Together Project
Ogechukwu Williams @ogewilliams.bsky.social Associate Professor of History of Medicine and Health (Africa). Researcher on maternal health, childbirth, indigenous med., and health advocacy. Website: drogewilliams.com
Swen Steinberg @swensteinberg.bsky.social Coordinator www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc / teaching @queenshistory.bsky.social / affiliated @ghiwashington.bsky.social / co-founder migrantknowledge.org & transit.hypotheses.org / Ambassador for www.daad-canada.ca/en/
Website: drswensteinberg.academia.edu
Malik A. Hussain @malikaltaf.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Economics | IIM Amritsar | Economic history & public health in colonial India
https://malikahussain.github.io/
Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social Bridging Fellow in Medical Humanities
@durhamimh.bsky.social | ECR Visiting Fellow @thejohnrylands.bsky.social | Currently working on cancer and the senses in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Elizabeth Austin @elaustin.bsky.social Social and medical historian | pt PhD 16thC English medicine, networks and recipes. Tudor living history with Linstock and Pledget and garden enthusiast.
Harriet Cooper @harrietcooper.bsky.social Lecturer, UEA Medical School, #DisabilityStudies, #MedHums
Associate Editor, @bmj.com Medical Humanities journal
Research/writing on:
the figure of the disabled child, shame and stigma in health and illness, lived experience and memoir culture.
She/her
Cansu Degirmencioglu @cansu-de.bsky.social Historian of in-betweens: architecture, health, and modernity. Writing on hygiene, sanatoria, domesticity, TB culture, childhood, and everyday life in the 1920s–50s. PhD, based in Berlin.
Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
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
Pratik Chakrabarti @pratik-hstm.bsky.social Historian of Science and Medicine. Forthcoming book, Science as White Epistemology. Director "Health is Politics" https://uh.edu/class/history/about/project-on-health-is-politics/
Dr Stephen E. Mawdsley @smawdsley.bsky.social Historian of modern American medicine and disability
Faculty of Arts, Law and Social Sciences, University of Bristol
https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Hilde Bras @hildebras.bsky.social Chair of Economic & Social History | Historical demography | Histories of medicine, health, and healing | Netherlands | Suriname | sub-Saharan Africa
University of Groningen
@dvassiliadou.bsky.social @dvassiliadou.bsky.social
@despokritsotaki.bsky.social @despokritsotaki.bsky.social
Beatrix Hoffman @beatrixh.bsky.social Historian of US health care and immigration; author, Borders of Care
Aisling Shalvey @ashshalvey.bsky.social Author of ‘Paediatrics in the Reichsuniversität Straßburg’ - MSCA postdoc project UCARE 1945 (unaccompanied children’s access to healthcare 1945-1950) - historian of medicine - COST Action HIDDEN Vice Chairperson
Oana Sorescu-Iudean @oana-sorsk-id.bsky.social Researcher at Centre for Population Studies, @Babes-Bolyai University
Postdoc @New Europe College in transcorr.eu
Co-lead of WG3 @eurohealthhist.bsky.social
Social hist, demogr, econ hist on the side. Transylvania, East-Central Europe.
@kfinnan.bsky.social @kfinnan.bsky.social
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
@kindkovacs.bsky.social @kindkovacs.bsky.social 20th century historian, history of childhood, transnational history
Cllr Richard Kemp CBE @cllrkemp.bsky.social Lib Dem spokesperson on Housing. Former Lord Mayor of Liverpool and Councillor for the fabulous Penny Lane ward. Married to Ald. Erica Kemp CBE with three children and five grandchildren
Joe Harley @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much
Harriet Barratt @harrietbarratt.bsky.social Researcher of objects & spaces of healthcare (the psychosocial, material culture, co-production; PhD on Winnicott). Postdoc at the Visual and Material Lab at @durhamimh.bsky.social 2025-29, researching materialities of donor conception treatment in the UK.
Dr Louise Creechan @louisecreechan.bsky.social Wellcome Early Career Fellow, Durham University. BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker. Ginger. Dyslexic. ADHD. She/her 🏳️🌈 Neurodiversity. Victorians. Musicals. Interrupting people.
Ben Doyle @bendoyle.bsky.social Senior Publisher for STS, Digital/Medical Humanities and Literary Studies at Bloomsbury Academic. All long-winded, rambling views are my own.
Dr Paige Donaghy @paigedonaghy.bsky.social Historian of reproduction, sexuality & medicine | she/they | Based on Wurundjeri country, in Naarm | Postdoc Fellow, University of Melbourne | views my own 🌻🏳️🌈🍉
paigedonaghy.com
Anna Greenwood @profannagreenwood.bsky.social Prof of Modern Health History @ University of Nottingham. Health Humanities, history of 20/21C health consumerism, and public health. Now researching the history of unhealthy sports sponsorship. Used to write on Empire. Account personal.
LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health @lshtmhistory.bsky.social CHiPH is part of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social and at the forefront of historical research into public health and health services
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-history-public-health
Geneviève Massard @genmass.bsky.social Historienne, professeure émérite à l'EHESS
Pollution industrielle. Justice sociale et environnementale.
Soutien indéfectible à tous les droits des Palestinien.nes
Lyon ("Tout l'monde y peut pas être de Lyon. Il en faut ben d'un peu partout !")
Alex Mold @alexmold.bsky.social Public health historian @London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
James Coverley @jamescoverley.bsky.social Roman history with the potential to be quite interesting. Subscribe for updates 👇
Substack - https://jamescoverley.substack.com
Tip Jar - https://ko-fi.com/jamescoverley
Michael George @mikeyjgeorge.bsky.social PhD candidate studying social and cultural history in 1960s and 70s: sex, secularism, suicide and The Samaritans. University of Huddersfield.
Gerard DeGroot @groovydegroovy.bsky.social Historian, journalist, dad, dog lover, Emeritus professor. Writes book reviews for The Times. Exile from Facebook and Twitter, still getting the hang of Bluesky. https://gerarddegroot.substack.com, www.begurvilla.net
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History
#18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust
Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
Francesco Buscemi @francescobuscemi.bsky.social Historian at the University of Groningen. Here for all things history and occasionally venting about EU and Italian politics.
The Age of Revolutions and the History of Emotions are a few of my favourite things.
María Pilar de Lara-Castells @accosycost.bsky.social Chair of the COST Action CA21101: Research network in Europe dedicated to COnfined Molecular SYstems (COSY). Permanent Researcher at IFF-CSIC.
https://cost-cosy.eu
https://www.cost.eu/CA21101
@cosy-action.bsky.social
Christine Grandy @christinegrandy.bsky.social Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social An interdisciplinary environmental history journal, showcasing how archival, documentary evidence and oral history testimony can contribute to reconnecting historic activities with the legacy of environmental challenges in the present and future #envhist
Steve Thompson @stevethompsonaber.bsky.social Hanesydd Cymru yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg a'r ugeinfed ganrif, Prifysgol Aberystwyth.
Historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Wales, Aberystwyth University.
Stefan Couperus @scouperus.bsky.social Academic working at the intersection of modern history and the social sciences. University of Groningen
Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social #Stillbirth #Perinatal #DeathStudies | #Grief #Bereavement | #Qualitative #SocialScience #Skystorian #Interdisciplinary | #EuroHistHealth Science Officer | #TCD #ASDS #IAPH #IHS #RHS #HSTM | #HistMed #History #MedHum #Maternity #Cillíní #DigitalHumanities
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social
COST @costprogramme.bsky.social European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) enables researchers and innovators to set up their own interdisciplinary research networks in Europe and beyond. Funded by the European Union. #COSTactions
Inequality & History @ineqhist.bsky.social Research, reviews and opinion on inequality in historical perspective. From the Inequality and History network, Cambridge. Maintained by @pramospinto.bsky.social
Older posts in twitter.
Longer posts on https://inequalityandhistory.blogspot.com/
Dr. Lara Freidenfelds @larafreidenfelds.bsky.social Historian of Reproduction, Health, and Parenting in America www.larafreidenfelds.com
Current research on history of complicated pregnancies
book: The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America
Regular contributor @ Nursing Clio
Dr Becca Watterson (she/her) @rebeccawatterson.bsky.social *Personal account
(find me @drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social for all things work)
Historian. Working class academic.
Ruled by a three-legged pug named Uncle Waldo.
Neurodivergent and mad.
Lift weights, love dinos, collect rocks, play games.
Nerd and menace.
Janet Weston @janetweston.bsky.social Historian in London for money (histories of modern British health, mental illness, law, and such: I wrote a book called 'Looking after Miss Alexander').
Mediocre musician & gardener in north Wales for fun. Vegan, cyclist, ask me about my chickens.
Tim Farron @timfarron.bsky.social Proud to be the MP for Westmorland & Lonsdale. Former leader of the Lib Dems.
Promoted by M Barwise on behalf of T Farron both at Acland House Yard 2 Stricklandgate Kendal LA9 4ND
Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social Historian at Swansea Uni. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of Sport in Wales.
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Today In History with The Retrospectors @theretrospectors.bsky.social What happened #OnThisDay?
Ten minute, DAILY HISTORY PODCAST with your hosts @ollymann.bsky.social @rebeccamessina.bsky.social & @arionmcnicoll.bsky.social
1,000 episodes and counting! 👇
💰 patreon.com/Retrospectors
🎧 pod.link/Retrospectors
Paul Ward @profpaulward.bsky.social Former history professor. Co-production of historical knowledge. Critical study of Britishness. Working with Kirklees Local TV on military veterans of African descent in the UK since the 1960s. Free Palestine.
James Martell @professeurmartell.bsky.social French Literature professor. He, his, him.
(If you google me I’m going to find out through academiadotedu)
https://lyon.academia.edu/JamesMartell
In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social The life and times of Steve the otter...
Dr Jen Farquharson @jenfarquharson.bsky.social Historian of mental health and WW1. Heritage professional. Author and editor. Content Officer at The Engine Shed. IM of the CIEP. PhD.
Dr Claire Martin @claireplmartin.bsky.social #Historian of gender, sexuality, health & the life cycle in modern Britain.
Research Fellow, Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980, University of Birmingham.
Queer | Feminist | French | Vegan | She/her
Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social Edinburgh. Newfoundland. Canada. Political Scientist. African Politics; Authoritarianism. Maybe some cycle campaigning. "low waffle threshold". Previously @srdorman and @afr_pol
Valerie Wright @vawright10.bsky.social Historian of modern and contemporary Scotland: deindustrialisation, regional policy, housing, new towns, women and work | Feminist, mum and Paisley Buddy | she/her
https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-valerie-wright
Sophie Waring @atinybitwaring.bsky.social Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum.
Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL.
Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine.
Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear.
Own views.
Cultural & Social History @cultsochistory.bsky.social Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of 7000+ historians - please join us: https://royalhistsoc.org/
Stephen Pemberton @stephenpemberton.bsky.social Historian of medicine, health, illness /educator / professor / music & art curious / always already peripatetic / a work in progress
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
Routledge History Research @routledgehistory.bsky.social We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
Luka Ivan Jukic @ljukic.bsky.social Reading and writing
https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/central-europe/
Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
American Association for the History of Medicine @aahmhistmed.bsky.social The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. #histmed
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social Global Healthcare venue for tracking & trending⏩Rx ,recalls, technology, studies, treatments, outbreaks, and more💗💊💉🚑 💥 RN - RESEARCHER 💥 PRO-Science 🚫 DMs
Nuala Doyle @nualadoyle.bsky.social Advocacy Manager @opportunitygreen.org
Talking aviation and shipping decarbonisation ✈️🛳️
Anne Kveim Lie @ahlie.bsky.social Physician-historian with passion for social medicine
Marcos Cueto @marcoscuet.bsky.social Historian, Science, Medicine, Latin America & the Global South from Peru/Brazil
Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social Historian of occultism and science, Victorianist, anthropologist, associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and bass player. Lover of classic videogames. 🎮 Views own. (https://www.eframserashriar.com)
- D Jacalyn Duffin @drugshortage.bsky.social hematologist, historian, and drug shortage activist
Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social Researches artificial limbs in #ww1 and #ww2 | Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social | co-founder @ukdishisthub.bsky.social | goes to a lot of gigs | she/her
Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UniHeidelberg/EHESS Paris on Slavery, Medical & Legal History 🌎 Part of the ERC-project "Fever - Global Histories of (a) Disease"
SAHMS @histmedsouth.bsky.social Southern Association for the History of Science and Medicine (SAHMS) is a professional organization founded in 1999 to further the mission of Professor L. M. Barnett (University of South Mississippi) to promote #histsci #histmed #histpsych #histSTM
The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret @oldoptheatre.bsky.social A medical museum housing the oldest operating theatre in Europe (1822) in the heart of London Bridge. Likes and retweets are not endorsements. #OldOpTheatre
www.oldoperatingtheatre.com
Chris Parsons @chrisparsons.bsky.social Historian of Science, Medicine, and the Environment in colonial North America at Northeastern. Author of A Not-So-New World: Empire and Environment in French Colonial North America (UPenn, 2019).
Neil Gregor @neilgregor.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe. The Symphony Concert in Nazi Germany (University of Chicago Press, May 2025). Things German, musical, historical, political, with some bicycles and mountains https://bit.ly/3ZwwJlM
Michael Brown @medhistoryman.bsky.social Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my Co-I @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
Dr Kimberley Pager-McClymont @kpager1.bsky.social Academic English Skills Coordinator and Research in Linguistics - University of Aberdeen's ISC.
Prof Janina Ramirez @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social Oxford historian, best-selling writer fiction & non-fiction, documentary maker, cat lover, vegetable grower, unrelenting optimist. https://lnk.to/LegendaPB
Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social Director of @britishfuture.bsky.social
Author How to be a Patriot https://harpercollins.co.uk/products/how-to-be-a-patriot-why-love-of-country-can-end-our-very-british-culture-war-sunder-katwala?variant=40518936559694
Evertonian
Jamie Taylor @jamiethecurator.bsky.social Director of Collections, Programming and Learning at Thackray Museum of Medicine.
Museums are my jam but I’m also into making music, guitars, football and NBA. I was recently into painting minis but I’m not so interested in that now.
Sławomir Łotysz @lotysz.bsky.social History of technology, environmental history, medical humanities, disability studies. Professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences. ICOHTEC. SHOT.
Manuel Merkofer @manuelmerkofer.bsky.social historian trying to grasp how we made sense of our minds and tried to cure them #histmed phd student in history of #neurosurgery @UniversitätZürich