Jenny Gladstone @seainthestorm.bsky.social Many things - research support, security, disability, neurodivergent, parent carer, SEND crisis, EDI, gardening, embroidery, crochet... Many eclectic things.
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. π https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Marie-Louise Leonard @marielouiseleonard.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in epidemics, public health and occupational health in Italy
@david-s.bsky.social @david-s.bsky.social Disability, mental health, politics, technology.
Chronic Historian βΎοΈβΏοΈπ³οΈβππ³οΈββ§οΈππ€ππ¦π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ ΏππΊπββ¬π§βπΎπ±π³ @enbycriphistorian.bsky.social Disabled autistic antifascist queer nonbinary early modern historian and writer. Husky&cat pawrent. Chronically ill. Social Justice Druid. Disabled Not Disposable. Trans Rights are Human Rights. Free Palestine (They/them)
https://enbycriptid.wordpress.com
Alison Purnell is chasing that PhD! @14thcdisability.bsky.social Eternal doctoral candidate currently at University of Waterloo. Medieval disability stuff. Modern disability stuff. Occasional humorous history stories. Queer, disabled, joyful. She/They. Always check the alt-text for bonus jokes.
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social Historian addicted to premodern stuff, especially to bodies and knowledge...
Paul Long @paullongmedia.bsky.social Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at Monash University researching homemade, amateur and DIY creativity with thoughts about healthy cultures - see @HADIY.creative UTV
Ian Carmichael @icarm.bsky.social Retired pastor and teacher. Unretired theologian, advocate, ally, nerd. Interested in comedy, poetry, physics, philosophy, cosmology, acceptance, inclusion, justice, mercy and ecological worlds. Liker of nature, creation, and re-creation. he/him. Opinions.
Matt Lanark @mattlanark.bsky.social βοΈ probably not writing the Great American Novel
π Great-ish Books on @substack
π Undrafted NBA free agent since 2012
π Washington, DC
mattlanark.substack.com/welcome
Dr Danny Penman @drdannypenman.bsky.social Author of the bestsellers 'Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World' & 'Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World.' www.franticworld.com @DrDannyPenman
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Clare Bonetree @blooyonder.bsky.social poet; trees, radical hope, fairness, equality, Herefordshire, arthritis mental health, disability, anarchism. Join a union!
Alex Shepard @shepardalex.bsky.social Feminist historian
Widowed parent
Figuring out how to live well
Lover of good coffee and chocolate
Dr Juliet Roberts @julesmrobertsf1.bsky.social Former theatre sister. OU history graduate. MA and PhD from C2DH University of Luxembourg. Visual culture of facial trauma in WWI. The medical portrait. History of medicine/surgery. Social history.
Dr Philippa Earle @uncouthswain.bsky.social Miltonist | Research Associate at Uni of Exeter | FHEA
π https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/35461-philippa-earle
Nick Watson @nickwatson.bsky.social Professor of Disability Research, University of Glasgow.
Dr Jackie Gulland @drjackiegulland.bsky.social Social scientist, social work lecturer. Social justice/sociolegal/ disability/ageing/gender/care and a bit of history. Author award winning 'Gender, Work and Social Control' (2019)
Ali Messer @freereed59.net History. Trad music. Teacher Education. #HistoryEducation #TeacherEducation #UKteaching #SSChat #ContraDancing
ππ°ππΊ No DMs unless we talk irl.
https://intheoryandinpractice.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/and-then-the-bell-rang/
https://linktr.ee/Freereed59
Michael Rodriguez @michaelrodriguez.bsky.social Historian, Explorer of imagination, and Writer of contemporary romance, erotica, and fantasy
Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social Educator
Passionate about Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI)
Anywhere near Books, Music and Films
#SurfaceStudies
#Soil_Imaginaries
Adores Snails π
My personal views - not my employer's
Reposts &c not endorsements
Sam Read Bookseller @samreadbookseller.bsky.social Est. by Sam Read in 1887. Award-winning small bookshop in the Lake District. Posts from @likewinterblue.bsky.social and @pollyrowena.bsky.social Insta: samreadbookseller Browse a selection from our virtual shelves: www.samreadbooks.co.uk
disnewsyouknowUKpodcast @disnewsyouknow.bsky.social A disability news podcast in the UK
Dr. Rachel K. Bright @rachelkbright.bsky.social Digital Historian of global Britishness, empire, gender, migration, labour. Keele University Senior Lecturer. Social History Society committee. Deviance strand convener. She/her.
Accessing Archives UK Network @aarchivesnetwork.bsky.social We are an informal peer network by, and for, disabled historians (including those outside of academia!). Sign up at forms.gle/Bu1tptiefQ1K6B6CA.
Frank Mols (PhD) @fmols.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Political Science, University of Queensland, researching leadership, followership, populist parties, voter attitudes and political behaviour.
https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=GwUV0YAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Quality Trust for Individuals with Disabilities @dcqualitytrust.bsky.social Our mission is to be a force for change in the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families so they can succeed, thrive, and experience full membership in the community. Learn more: www.dcqualitytrust.org.
Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social Head of #Archives & #Records Mgt and Professional Lead for #HistNursing at Royal College of #Nursing
History, Heritage #DigitalArchives #WomensHistory
Ria Cheyne @riacheyne.bsky.social Neurodiversity, disability, access, medical humanities, genre fiction. "Divergent Minds in the Archive" project PI.
Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
Dr Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith.bsky.social Writing about books and 19th-20thc women's history in 'Cambridge Ladies' Dining Society' on Substack: https://akennedysmith.substack.com
Essays & reviews also in TLS, Slightly Foxed, ODNB & History Today etc
Ed Granter @edgranter.bsky.social Academic in the UK. Sociology of work and organization. Critical Theory. Gardening. Food. Miscellaneous. Posts views opinions links likes reposts comments strictly personal.
Creatrix Cymraes @creatrixcymraes.bsky.social Artist, maker and mother from Caerdydd, Cymru β¨
Queer, disabled, siaradwyr π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ ΏβΏοΈπ³οΈβπ
Join me for collage club events at Unstable Arts in Roath!
Following β support; Iβm doing social outreach at the moment x
Pam Wilson @pamw143.bsky.social Science, art, gardening, πΆ, Human Services Advisory Committee, Housing TF, Health, Inclusion. PTA Golden Acorn award! Brownie / GS co-leader, Cub Scouts, Campfire Kids.
Type 1 Diabetes and Down syndrome research and advocacy
Past life at DownSynAdvocacy
Glamorgan / Morgannwg @glamorganuk.bsky.social News and updates from Glamorgan / Newyddion a diweddariadau o Forgannwg
Schools History Project - SHP @1972shp.bsky.social Supporting history teachers to bring rigorous, accessible and life enhancing history into classrooms for all young people. Find out more www.schoolshistoryproject.co.uk #WeAreSHP #SHPUnderstanding #SHPCurriculumPATHS
AMEND - eArly Modern European NeuroDivergence @amendproject.bsky.social Researching neurodivergence in early modern literature and how neurodivergent people relate to it! Based at Swansea University and funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Christian Kleindienst @postkulturwissenschaften.de PhD Candidate @UniLeipzig.bsky.social | '22 @Harvard.edu Fellow | Theory and History of Antisemitism, Critical Theory, Women's and Gender History #TransnatHist
β https://postkulturwissenschaften.de/
β https://christiankleindienst.com/
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
Kerri Andrews @kerriandrewsuk.bsky.social Writer & academic at University College Cork, where I am also Director of Creative Writing. Author of Pathfinding and Wanderers. Editor of Way Makers + Nan Shepherdβs letters. Walker, reader and single mum. Signed copies of all books: kerriandrews.co.uk
Richard Batten @richardbatten.bsky.social Honorary Research Fellow at University of Exeter, Historian, Devon, WW1; Author; Farmerβs son; Views my own, reposts not endorsements;
Geoff Spink @gpspink.bsky.social Journalist, disability rights activist, Chair of Thalidomide Voice and Aerobility Ambassador
gpspink.com
Society for Disability Studies @disstudies.bsky.social SDS is a lively scholarly association made up of artists, scholars and activists who promote Disability Studies. #DSQArchives #Soc4DisStudies
Find out More At: linktr.ee/dis_studies
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Business Disability Forum @businessdisability.bsky.social The leading business membership organisation in disability inclusion.
@pfriendesq.bsky.social @pfriendesq.bsky.social
Stephanie van Dam @stephvandam.bsky.social Social and economic historian, writing global histories of disability and protest.
Lecturer @Erasmus University/ Postdoc @EHESP
PhD @Cambridge on disability & labour in British colonies. Likely to interrupt you to point at a tree.
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
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.
Dr Charlotte Holmes @ccholmes.bsky.social Historian of early modern Scottish medicine but interested in disability history. Still running on sitcoms and coffee.
Thoughts my own.
Radu Harald Dinu @raduhd.bsky.social Assistant professor of history
JΓΆnkΓΆping university - Sweden
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Daniel Blackie @danielblackie.bsky.social Disability history's my thing.
https://www.tuni.fi/en/people/daniel-blackie
Disability in the Industrial Revolution (OA): https://tinyurl.com/yxv23zpk
Jonathan Moss @jmoss88.bsky.social Political historian at University of Sussex. Currently researching ageing and political understandings in modern Britain.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture Β© Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social Independent global health news written by experienced journalists. Non-profit media company with HQ in Geneva, Switzerland.
Sign-up for daily email news alerts: http://healthpolicy-watch.news
Clare Chambers @reskeet.cc Education πΈοΈ Gerontology πΈοΈ Heritage
π ClareChambers.org
ππ¬π§ π¦πΉ π²π«
Charlotte Goodge @charlottegoodge.bsky.social βData Travelsβ Postdoc @UCC π§³ 2025-26 Visiting ECR Fellow @thejohnrylands π Researching women writers, travel and ecologies of the labouring class c.1750-1850 π Long-standing interest in the intersectionality of fatness βpre BMIβ π
Joelle McTigue π· @joellemctigue.bsky.social Artist examining memory as unstable matter shaped by movement, repetition, access, power, and erasure. Madrid. joellemctigue.com
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Ahana (she/her) @antisanitygirl.bsky.social insane transsexual borderline bunnygirl, essayist, Mad studies, transMad/crip studies, Foucauldian-Butlerian anarchocommunist, advocate for personality disorder liberation
Essays: https://tenderlyborderline.substack.com
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/ahana16698
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.
Department of History, Saint Maryβs University @historysmu.bsky.social Department of History at Saint Mary's University in Halifax / K'jipuktuk. Offering BA & MA degrees as well as minors in Applied History and British Studies. For info: history@smu.ca
CULT Cymru @cultcymru.bsky.social Creative Unions Learning Together Wales /
Undebau creadigol yn dysgu ar y cyd
https://CULT.Cymru
Library Research Support @sulibressupport.bsky.social Swansea University Library Research Support team with news and views on #OpenAccess #ScholarlyCommunication #Copyright #OpenResearch #RightsRetention
Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Devoted to vintage Ladybird books and the other work of their artists. My exhibition The Wonderful World of the Ladybird Artists has been travelling since 2018. Twitter: @lbflyawayhome
Michelle Mahoney @michellemahoney.bsky.social Neurodivergent Activist, Writer, Educator, Disability Advocate.
Author of Strange Fellow Bobby: The Neurodivergence of Robert F. Kennedy, Sr.
Substack: michellemahoneyautisticadvocate.substack.com
Helen Parish @helenlparish.bsky.social Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
@WorcCollegeOx @UniRdg_History
Emma Butler-Marr @19thcenturyem.bsky.social PhD researcher studying nineteenth-century (literary) seaside resorts β±οΈ | @bars.bsky.social PGR rep 2026-28 | 2025 BARS Visiting Fellow at Chawton House | chronically ill π (she/her)
Dr Lisa Gee @lis4g33.bsky.social Enthusiastic, neurodivergent, digressive, herded by cat (RIP Kooky)
Disability Daily Podcast @disabilitydaily.bsky.social
Discover a new figure or event in disability history each day!
Subscribe and tell your friends!
Katie Healey (she/her), PhD, CPACC β¨
AccessibleHigherEd.com
DisabilityDaily.podbean.com
https://ko-fi.com/disabilitydaily
Hannah Morgan @hannahnagrom.bsky.social
Toby Juliff @tobyjuliff.bsky.social Lecturer, researcher. Foster parent. Latin/x, EnvHist, cont Art historian and curious person. nipaluna Hobart. Often found walking.
https://discover.utas.edu.au/Toby.Juliff
Explore York Archive @yorkarchive.bsky.social Making over 850 years of the city of York's history accessible to all. Keep up to date with our latest projects and activities here.
Website: https://exploreyork.org.uk/archives/
Blog: http://citymakinghistory.org
The History Syndicate Podcast @historysyndicate.bsky.social A podcast for all with a common interest in history. Run and hosted by Mark Martin, the pod is his hobby. Heβs an Arsenal fan and Wargamer.
Listen on any podcast app: https://bit.ly/4huFXEJ
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Henrice Altink @henricealtink.bsky.social Professor of Caribbean history at the University of York. I work on the intersection between social inequalities and environmental /climate change in Jamaica post-1945.
Ryan Sweet @ryansweet.bsky.social Researcher and lecturer of Victorian literature, culture, and disability. Co-creator of the new role-and-move strategy board game Legless in London (www.leglessinlondon.com). All views my own.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to βunderstand the world and shape a brighter future.
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
Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social The Historical Association is the voice for history. For over 100 yrs we have brought, teachers, students, academics and enthusiasts together to explore the past and inspire future historians. We provide digital and in-person resources. www.history.org.uk
The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Boydell & Brewer @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Independent. Employee-owned. Publishing Medieval & Early Modern History, Musicology, Literature, African Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies and more.
SiobhΓ‘n Hearne @siobhanhearne.bsky.social Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
Simon John @simonajohn.bsky.social Historian of the Middle Ages and their reception, among other things. Cyclist, Germanophile and pun aficionado.
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
History at Swansea University @swanseahistory.bsky.social History and Heritage @SwanseaUniversity. Hanes a Treftadaeth @PrifysgolAbertawe
https://www.swansea.ac.uk/history/ -- Researching & Teaching the Past for the 21st Century
Adam Mosley @adamjmosley.bsky.social historian: early modern science & scholarship | book history | collecting & museums | networks | dh-curious |π³οΈβπ |πͺπΊ| ~he/him~
+ speculative fiction | games | other people's cats & dogs | octopodes | bears | personal views
Deaf Heritage @deafheritage.bsky.social Deaf historian and filmmaker
Eamonn OβKeeffe @1812andallthat.bsky.social Pratt Fellow in History, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Author of Musical Warriors: British Military Music and the Napoleonic Wars (McGill-Queen's, 2027).
Previously a Research Fellow at Queens' College, Cambridge.
https://eamonnokeeffe1812.com/
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
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
Julia Sittmann @normseite.bsky.social Academic Editor, Translator & Indexer at Normseite
Publications Manager at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Retired Historian
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
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.
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her