Tom Chidwick @tomchidwick.bsky.social Historian | Author of "Now or Never! A History of the First Scottish Devolution Referendum" | Manager of @mileendinstitute.bsky.social
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Ellie Harwood @ellieharwood.bsky.social Attempting systems-thinking around social security in the UK. Currently working on narrative change to end stigma.
Interested in social security, systems change, co-production, narrative and framing, children's rights and devolution.
The Welfare, Citizenship, and Intersectional Feminism Project @wcifproject.bsky.social The WCIF history project foregrounds intersectional feminist responses to welfare disparities that impact Black & South Asian women. University of Bristol. Supported by The Leverhulme Trust.
Salvation Army International Heritage Centre @salvarmyarchive.bsky.social The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally.
https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social Co-editor of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2025)
#cpfc 🔵🔴
Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social Teaching Fellow in Early Modern History @historytcd.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social | Historian of the news, press, political cultures, and popular politics in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Dr. Thinking is fun @evenannaliese.bsky.social Assistant Prof. of English & Dir. of Academic Writing. Close Reader. Thinking is Magic. 🪄
LJMU History @ljmuhistory.bsky.social The account of the History Department at Liverpool John Moores University. A small but lively modern history department situated in the heart of Liverpool. We teach and research modern history with a global outlook. https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/academic-uni
Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social Historian of Caribbean slavery in the 17th & 18th centuries | Aspiring Presenter ⭐️
📸 Instagram: @historian_noor
#SkyStorian #SkyStorians #AcademicSky
Katherine Ingram @kating03.bsky.social PhD in History from QUB | Researching conflict and cooperation in the UK women’s suffrage movement, 1900-1918 | Studying suffrage militancy, suffragists’ relations with political parties, and feminists’ responses to war
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
Carve Her Name @carvehername.bsky.social Every day women have, and are, making history. Follow us to get daily posts on what women have done #OnThisDay. 🗃️
We check replies on weekdays, but not always at weekends.
https://carvehername.org.uk/ and https://linktr.ee/CarveHerName
Kelly Bosomworth @kellybosomworth.bsky.social Collaborative PhD researcher at the University of Birmingham with the Women's Library. Researching the Six Point Group (she/her).
Lydia Gray @lydiajgray.bsky.social Historian of the British empire, political activism and the Cold War. PhD researcher, University of Southampton.
Tom Kelsey @tomkelsey.bsky.social Lecturer in Defence Studies at the UK Defence Academy, King’s College, London. Writes on industrial strategy, British politics, and the history of technology.
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Caitlin @feminomenologist.bsky.social ✨️ Feminomenologist ✨️ (PhD student) researching pregnant embodiment, obstetric violence and UK law ⚖️ | MA & MScR in Philosophy from Edinburgh Uni 👨🎓
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/
Claire Pierson @clairepierson.bsky.social Reader in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
School of Advanced Study, University of London @sas-news.bsky.social News and events from the UK's national centre for the support and promotion of humanities research. We monitor our profiles, more here: http://bit.ly/3q8WHYm
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
Sign up to the MUP newsletter & receive 30% off all orders.
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N16Breda Corish @n16breda.bsky.social Post-Public History MA at UCL 2023-24 & "Finding Ireland in the History of London" is my thing ☘️ https://www.irishlondonhistory.com/
Irish in Hackney & Stoke Newington - used to be @N16Breda on Twitter
Maxine Beuret @maxinebeuret.bsky.social Creative Cultural Historian, Academic, Artist, videographer https://maxinebeuret.com and Oral Historian https://www.ohs.org.uk/creative/
Kirsty Peacock @ka-peacock.bsky.social History DPhil on women clerks’ opportunities and experiences of work in the City of London, 1873-1939 | she/her
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
Jonathan Moss @jmoss88.bsky.social Political historian at University of Sussex. Currently researching ageing and political understandings in modern Britain.
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
IHR Life Cycles seminar @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social A thematic history seminar series that addresses issues relating to the life-cycle including age, aging, childhood, youth, rites of passage, looking across the world and different periods
.https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/life-cycles
Kate McAllister @katemcal993.bsky.social Historian of sometimes medicine, sometimes psychiatry | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow | Writes about long illness, mental ill health and pain | Lover of old 📚 , moderately strong ☕️ and reality 📺
Views own
she/her
Dr Caitlín Smith @caitlin-smith.bsky.social PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
Kate Wilson @katekatewilson.bsky.social Historian of culture, care, class and the city. Research Associate, Newcastle University.
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 © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Jane Green @profjanegreen.bsky.social Nuffield College, Oxford
Director, Nuffield Politics Research Centre
President, British Polling Council
Election Analyst, ITV News
Voting, surveys, explanation, singing …
Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol
British politics, elections, public opinion and (a lot of) political values.
SubStack: https://pollingsnippets.substack.com/?r=4a6d0z&utm_campaign=pub-shar
Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social Roving Archivist @senatehouselib.bsky.social
Formerly Superintendent, Special Collections Reading Rooms @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Opinions mine
Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social The Friends of The Women's Library support The Women's Library at LSE in acquisition, preservation and education. https://friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
COST Action CA22159 Euro Hist Health @eurohealthhist.bsky.social #CA22159 National, International & Transnational Histories of Healthcare 1850-2000. Join https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159 #Skystorians #Heritage #European #History #HealthHist #MedHum #EuroHealthHist #COSTActions Managed by @chendirl.bsky.social
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
Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social Historian researching prison labour and citizenship in Britain & British Empire, 1750-1895. Leverhulme ECF & University of Leicester.
Alison Twells @alisontwells.bsky.social History, 'creative history', life writing: www.alisontwells.com
OUT NOW! A Place of Dreams: Desire, Deception and a Wartime Coming of Age: https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0461
Peter Farrelly @pfarrelly2025.bsky.social History PhD at QUB researching Thatchers Poll Tax | Irish | Content Creator - 300k TT followers (thedarkpete)|. Owner of 'TheUnchartedPast' website and podcast| Mental health awareness | LFC | Peace 💕
https://theunchartedpast.com/
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.
Lia Brazil @liabrazil.bsky.social Leverhulme Fellow, Uni of Manchester, on sexual violence and humanitarian actors. Interested in histories of international law, humanitarianism and imperialism.
Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde, researching Irish women and interwar anti-communism. Monograph, Revolutionary Connections (OUP, 2026)
Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/)
Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now!
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/
Lise Butler @lisebutler.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern History at City, University of London. Interested in the history of the British left and futures past. Co-editor, Renewal: A Journal of Social Democracy
Gregory Billam @gregorybillam.bsky.social Modern British Historian | PhD in British and Australian Communism | Articles and Book Reviews in Contemporary British History, Labour History Review, Labour History, and Twentieth Century Communism | Web and Social Media Editor @sslh.bsky.social
James Phillips @jjphillips94.bsky.social Historian of political cultures and the labour movement. PhD from Cardiff University on political traditions in Monmouthshire, 1918-29. Gwent Archives. Llafur Events. LFC, always #JFT97
Sinead Carter @sineadcarter.bsky.social AHRC funded PhD student (SWWDTP) | Space and feminism in the British Women's Liberation Movement | Virgo | she/her
Histories of racialised communities in Britain @historyracebritain.bsky.social Showcasing new historical research on racialised communities in Britain by emerging scholars from racially minoritised backgrounds. Send work for us to share via dm!
@louiseheren.bsky.social @louiseheren.bsky.social Social (often Scottish, frequently women's) history academic & writer; Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes, Sex & Violence in 1920s Scotland; coauthor Tanks on the Streets? & Glasgow 1919; also British Nannies & the Great War
Dr. Joanne Collins-Gonsalves PhD (History), FRHistS (UK) @jcollinsgonsalves.bsky.social Managing Director, Historical Research International | Canada’s Top 100 Black Women to Watch for 2025 | Fellow, Royal Historical Society-UK | Rotarian | https://www.historicalresearchint.com/
Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and colonial power, looking at race/gender/imperialism/sex work in North Africa and more. Based at University of Bristol and Oxford. Always nosy.
Selena Daly @selenadaly.bsky.social Historian of modern Italy, Associate Professor at UCL, researching history of Italian emigration, the First World War, and difficult heritage of Italian Fascism.
https://selenadaly.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
Clarisse Berthezène @clarisseberthezene.bsky.social 
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, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
Dr Amy Edwards @somsproject.bsky.social Historian at Uni of Bristol interested in cultures of capitalism, business, and finance.
PI on AHRC project: ‘The Secret of My Success’: Women and Self-Employment 1970-2000.
Book: https://www.ucpress.edu/books/are-we-rich-yet/hardcover
Jenny Crane @jennycrane.bsky.social Lecturer in health geographies at Bristol, treasurer of RGS Geographies of Health and Wellbeing Group; interested in activisms and feelings entangled in welfare states, "gifted" children, childbirth and trauma, participatory art.
Rebecca Goldsmith @beccagold.bsky.social Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Alexandra Wilson @amwilson.bsky.social Academic | Author | Cultural commentator
Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
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.
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
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
George Evans @georgedevans93.bsky.social Historian of the British Empire, Ireland and the Second World War, University of Edinburgh. 
Maria Cullen @mariacullen.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher on Solidarity, Sovereignty and Sanctuary (SOS) project in UCD School of History https://boatrefugeehistory.org/.
Interests in humanitarian history, human rights, migration and global health.
Sarah Hellawell @sarahhellawell.bsky.social Historian
A lost academic
Research on British women's history and transnational activism.
Writing a book on British women in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Currently on 👶🤱leave
Kate Barker @katebarker.bsky.social Literary agent. Always looking for something interesting. www.katebarker.net.
Jac St John @jacstjohn.bsky.social Lecturer @ University of Westminster / Senior Researcher @unredacteduk.bsky.social. Interested in histories of policing, counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, state violence and resistance. FOI busybody and deteriorating basketball player.
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social Change the rules. Share the wealth. Protect the planet.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
Find out more: massobs.org.uk
Sign up to our mailing list: https://subscribe.emailblaster.cloud/MjEyMjQ/122.html
Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social Medievalist 900-1200ish England and Normandy most of the time. Immigrant and misplaced Hoosier in the south of England when not in Wales. Usually tired. Trustee @castlestudies.bsky.social. She/her.
Insta @katherineweikert
Sarah Baxter @sarahbaxterstm.bsky.social Director, Marie Colvin Center, Stony Brook University, columnist at the i paper, ex-dep ed Sunday Times, IPSO member
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Katy Soar @kjsoar.bsky.social PhD. Senior lecturer in Archaeology @uniwinchester.bsky.social.
Writer for Hellebore. Editor 'Strange Relics' with Dr. Amara Thornton (Handheld Press), 'Circles of Stone' & 'Return of the Ancients' (BL Tales of the Weird). She/her.
I have a dog.
Niamh Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
The Cure @thecure.com THE CURE FORMED IN CRAWLEY, SUSSEX, ENGLAND. PLAYED ITS FIRST SHOW IN 1978.
Official account for The Cure / @robert.thecure.com
Eve Colpus @evecolpus.bsky.social Historian. University of Southampton. Researching children and young people’s telephone cultures in 1980s and 1990s Britain #telephonicyouth
pronouns are she/her 
Kit Kowol @kitkowol.bsky.social Recovering academic turned parliamentary clerk.
Author of Blue Jerusalem: British Conservatism, Winston Churchill and the Second World War.
Brisbane, Australia.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/blue-jerusalem-9780198868491?cc=us&lang=en&
Laura Fenton @soc-researcher.bsky.social Sociologist and researcher based at the University of Sheffield
Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social Archaeologist in North Wales. Currently studying PhD looking at death in Pre-Roman Wales. Other interests include making random stuff and scruffing my hounds.
Katharina Rowold @kathrowold.bsky.social Historian of infancy, childhood, motherhood, women and gender. Mostly modern Britain.
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Grace Heaton @graceheaton.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain 💫 interested in all things women, activism, and religion. Based at Mansfield College, University of Oxford.
Dr Vicky Randall @vrandall.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World. 
Temperance History @temperancehistory.bsky.social Temperance History PhD project which will, in time, become an educational resource for the Temperance Movement and the people involved https://temperancehistory.com @joannegenealogy.bsky.social #Temperance #TemperanceHistory
Dr Lauren Smyth @laurensmytg.bsky.social Historian of child welfare and poverty in early 19th Century Belfast. PhD from QUB and currently working as the historian of Clifton House.
Holly 🍓 Cooper @hollyscooper.bsky.social They/them 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
DPhil History student, University of Oxford
Researching 20C Black Caribbean community histories ✊🏽
Social Science History Association @socscihistory.bsky.social Official account of the Social Science History Association. Supporting social science history since 1974, we host an annual meeting and publish a journal. More about us can be found at www.ssha.org
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
Political Studies Association @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social The home of Political Studies since 1950. We advance, support & promote the global study of Politics & International Relations. psa.ac.uk
Become a PSA member http://psa.ac.uk/members
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
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/
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