@miriammarkfield.bsky.social @miriammarkfield.bsky.social
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Nicola Harris Author 💙📚💙📚 @nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.social I’ve written three novels in my eight book Tudor Queens series, and I’m currently deep into writing Catherine Howard. No direct messages. Universal link: https://linktr.ee/Nicola_Harris_Author #KU #hisfic #wivesofhenryviii
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Becky Masson @easyrecipesdash.com Easy, #healthy & delicious #recipes to inspire your daily #cooking! 🍜🍽️👨🍳📸
🌐 easyrecipesdash.com
#food #foodsky #foodie #diet #dinner #lunch #breakfast #drinks #wellness #fitness #lifestyle #cats #birds #gardening #nature #photography 🌿🌱🌾
Peter Edwards @peedwards.bsky.social Retired CIO who is now pleasantly occupied by my fascination with early modern and modern history.
Late developer Birkbeck MA and MRes in British and European History.
Avoiding as much contact with the rogue state across the pond.
Dr Francesca Elizabeth Richards @ferichardsuk.bsky.social Asst lecturer & PhD in #coral
Materiality, medicine, family, relig, art, books
Mama x3, usually on the beach!
Publications ⏬️
https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2024.2360935
https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkae041
Ana Stevenson @dranastevenson.bsky.social anastevenson.phd | feminist historian + ISG @ UFS | ✍ social movements 🪧 women in politics 📚 AcLits 📐 evaluation | #VIDAblog @auswhn.bsky.social | 🗳 The Suffrage Postcard Project | archivingsocialmovements.com | 🗺️ Mapping Monuments | 🎼 blockflute ♫♬♫ | 😷
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
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
The Making of Maidstone @themakingofmaidstone.org A Victoria County History Project writing a new history of Maidstone, Kent (c. 1549-1660) alongside volunteer researchers and writers led by @jack-newman.com. https://themakingofmaidstone.org/
Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social 8 – 9 July 2025, University of Cambridge. Organised by Zara Kesterton and Lucy Havard.
https://sites.google.com/view/plants-and-people/home
VCH Oxfordshire @vch-oxon.bsky.social Researching and publishing the history of Oxfordshire places as part of @vchlondon.bsky.social - landscape, settlement, buildings, economy, religion, society and more: www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history/counties-z/oxfordshire
Streets Ahead Podcast @podstreetsahead.bsky.social Streets Ahead is a podcast dedicated to the world of active travel, liveable streets and urban design. Hosts: @nedboulting.bsky.social @adamtranter.bsky.social @lauralaker.bsky.social
Our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/StreetsAheadPodcast
Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Pride Ride London @prideride.co.uk The official Pride Ride since 2015. An inclusive social LGBTQ+ bike ride in London, UK.
https://www.prideride.co.uk
Hannah Booth @hannahbooth.bsky.social Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain & its North Sea neighbours | Historical linguist turned writer & editor
Writing: https://northseanexus.substack.com
Website: https://hannahmarybooth.com
Amy Miller @amy-pierce-miller.bsky.social Curator, Burgh House/Fashion & Masculinity/Textiles/History & Material Culture/ Half of Beadnell & Miller
@beadnell-miller.bsky.social
Fellow, Royal Historical Society
‘Dressed to Kill’ (National Maritime Museum, 2021)
Suze Zijlstra @suzezij.bsky.social Historian | Colonial & Maritime History | Assistant Professor in Public History of Slavery at University of Amsterdam | Research Curator at the Dutch National Maritime Museum, Het Scheepvaartmuseum | Author of 'De voormoeders'
Bob Pierik @bobpi.bsky.social Historian. Researching early modern space, gender, water and other things.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern Urban History at the VUB. Brussels based.
Posts in Dutch and English
https://linktr.ee/bobpierik
Dr Jenny Lee @jennyrlee.bsky.social Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
John Jenkins @armentarius.bsky.social Medieval historian working on cathedrals, pilgrimage, Thomas Becket, Yorkshire etc. Director, Centre for Pilgrimage Studies, University of York
Towards a National Collection (TaNC) @nationalcollection.bsky.social TaNC is an AHRC/UKRI-funded research and development programme to bring together disparate collections across the UK through collaborative research.
Henry Fowler @redhen90.bsky.social AGS @gftu.org.uk. Chelsea FC ST Holder. Co-founder @strikemap.org. @organisenow.bsky.social. Red Tourists. @iassc.bsky.social Board. National Piers Society. Views my own.
Strike Map @strikemap.org Putting struggle on the map across Britain and the Island of Ireland. Partnership with @gftu.org.uk. Submit a strike today #strikemap.
All our links: beacons.ai/strikemap
International Centre for Historical Research in Education @ichre-ioe.bsky.social Researching and teaching history of education, youth and childhood. Based at IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Runs History of Education seminar at IHR.
Kelly Cornwell @whoamiftr.bsky.social Who Am I? Professional Genealogist, Tutor (with Pharos Tutors) and Family History Speaker. Tells tales about Transportation to Tasmania.
Dr Llinos Brown @llinosbrown.bsky.social Transport/Energy Geographer at Institute for Transport Studies, @envleeds.bsky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social
Part of @edrc-uk.bsky.social
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain @thesahgb.bsky.social Bringing together all those interested in the built environment's history.
All Periods, All Places, All Welcome.
www.sahgb.org.uk
Findmypast @findmypast.bsky.social Findmypast helps you understand your family history. Delve deeper into your family tree by getting to know the world your ancestors lived in — their triumphs, setbacks, and heartbreaks — to uncover your family’s unique story. Here 9-5 weekdays.
Jack Newman @jack-newman.com Project Leader Victoria County History 'The Making of Maidstone'. Associate Fellow @ihr.bsky.social and Honorary Fellow @memsunikent.bsky.social. Formerly @ Antwerp Centre for Digital Humanities & Literary Criticism.
https://www.jack-newman.com/
Dana Celeste Robinson @dana-c-robinson.bsky.social Documentarian at Knox Robinson Films | Historian: The Crusades & U.S. History | PhD: RHUL | Documentaries: In Search of Doc Holliday & In Search of Bass Reeves | Current Projects: Doc on U.S. Marshals & book on The Crusades | imdb.me/danacelesterobinson
Amy Walker @amywalkerhist.bsky.social MA Student at the Institute of Historical Research. Interests in 18th and 19th century poverty as well as the 20th century home life and society in South East London
History of Catholicism @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social Updates and events from the History of Catholicism research cluster in the Centre for Catholic Studies at @durham-university.bsky.social
Michael Howcroft @michaelhowcroft.bsky.social UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
@civicimaginaries.bsky.social
University of Glasgow, Urban Studies and Social Policy.
Dr. Jacob Flaws @jacobflaws.bsky.social Assistant professor of history, author of Spaces of Treblinka: Retracing a Death Camp (2024, U of Nebraska Press), historian of the Holocaust, modern Europe, and genocide. www.jacobflaws.com
Claire Titley @clairelouisetitley.bsky.social Archivist. Shropshire lass in Leytonstone. Interests include London history, books, hills, art, architecture. 🐈⬛ 🇵🇸
Jamie Banks @milkwknives.bsky.social Drugs & Alcohol Historian | Research Fellow @lshtm.bsky.social
| "Kicking the Habit" - Addictive Sponsorship in British Sport | Managing Editor @History of Pharmacy & Pharmaceuticals
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
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
Dr Angie Sutton-Vane @angiesuttonvane.bsky.social Visiting history fellow and consultant at the Open University | #Orgreave inquiry panel member | researcher and writer e.g. the material culture of the archives, crime and police records | Find me at: https://angelasuttonvane.com/
Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social Historian of the Family @UL Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
Out Now! *Pious & Promiscuous. Life, Love & Family in Presbyterian Ulster* https://shop.ria.ie/products/pious-and-promiscuous
History Lab Plus @historylabplus.bsky.social We are the UK’s national network for early career historians. Are you #postdoc or writing up your #PhD? Did/does it involve historical research? Whatever sector you do/want to work in, the HistoryLab+ network is for you! 👉 https://historylab.plus/
Family History Federation @federationfhs.bsky.social The Family History Federation, supporting #Genealogy and the membership of #FamilyHistory societies worldwide 🌳 #FamilyHistoryFriday familyhistoryfederation.com / http://exploreyourgenealogy.co.uk
LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @wsguk.bsky.social Multi-disciplinary international group promoting the study of women and gender in the early modern period and long eighteenth century.
https://womensstudiesgroup.org/
Seminars | Workshops | Outings | Bursary Scheme | Mentoring | Newsletter | Reading Group
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
Ridings of Yorkshire Society @roysociety.bsky.social Exploring Yorkshire's past since 2021.
ROYS 2026 will take place at York Explore Library, Friday 19th and Saturday 20th June.
Contact us at help@ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk or visit our website at www.ridingsofyorkshiresociety.co.uk
BrANCH @branchuk.bsky.social Association of British American Nineteenth Century Historians 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
We welcome members from the UK, US & beyond
Affiliated with American Nineteenth Century History (ANCH)
Find out more about us: https://www.branch.org.uk/
Association for Art History @forarthistory.org.uk We believe that art history inspires people to think differently and see differently. Find out more about our vision, mission and work:
www.forarthistory.org.uk
Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social Encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain | #HlfSupported #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
British Records Association @britrecs.bsky.social The British Records Association is a UK charity, working for archives since 1932. Please become a member and support our work https://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/
Arts and Humanities Alliance @artsandhums.bsky.social AHA is an association of learned societies working together to promote the Arts & Humanities in higher education. Posts by @emmacayley.bsky.social and @TheaPitman.bsky.social Find us at: http://artsandhumanitiesalliance.org
Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
SHNH @sochistnathist.bsky.social The Society for the History of Natural History | https://shnh.org.uk/
Archives of Natural History published by Edinburgh University Press | https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ANH
National Humanities Alliance @humanitiesall.bsky.social The National Humanities Alliance is a coalition of organizations that advocates for the value of the humanities on campuses, in communities, and on Capitol Hill.
Learn more at www.nhalliance.org.
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org We are the UK’s learned society and professional body for geography, supporting geography and geographers across the world.
The English Association @englishassociation.bsky.social Founded in 1906 to support, promote, and celebrate the discipline of English Studies (registered charity 1124890). www.englishassociation.ac.uk/join-us/
The Folklore Society @folkloresociety.bsky.social Based in London, The Folklore Society has been collecting, studying, publishing and promoting the study of folklore in all its forms since 1878. Visit our website: https://folklore-society.com
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Museums Association @museumsassociation.org Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
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
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
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
Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social Design, Shakespeare, biscuit art. Senior Lecturer in Research & Innovation at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. Book: Shakespeare in Elizabethan Costume (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare). She/her.
James Fox @jamesafox.bsky.social Social historian of numeracy, communication, knowledge, books | Postdoc at Glasgow Uni researching early modern how-to books howtobook.eu | PhD from St Andrews on numeracy in early modern Britain | Writer and co-editor at scilicet.org.uk
Jonathan Woods @jonathanwwoods.bsky.social Operations manager, @c20society.bsky.social
Editor
Here for theatre, books, art and food
London
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Historical and Archaeological Studies at Lincoln Bishop 🗃️ @lbishophisarch.bsky.social Updates from the History, Military History, and Archaeology team at Lincoln Bishop University.
Find more information about our degrees here: https://www.bgu.ac.uk/course-types/undergraduate
Alana Rumley Rogers @alrogers.bsky.social Graduate Historian of 18th, 19th, & 20th century Imperialist Britain | Public History
*Searching for a PhD advisor*
Current Research: The British Museum and its Advancement of Great Britain's Imperial Identity
website: www.addressingthedress.org
Sophie Vohra @sophievohra.bsky.social Disruptor and heritage lover | academic in public history, digital humanities and railway history | former museum professional | Intersectional feminist | MHFAider
Sasha Engelmann @sashaengelmann.bsky.social Geographer of air+atmosphere | diviner of radio waves | half of open-weather | Reader in Geohumanities at Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️🌈 @catsporter.bsky.social Geographer @ULGeog.bsky.social | FHEA | IRC PI 'OS200' @IrelandMapped.bsky.social | Heritage Council PI 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' | Historical Geography | Digital | GIS | DH | Spatial | Early Maps & Texts
Tristan Sturm @tristansturm.bsky.social Reader in Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast
Research: apocalypse; geopolitics; Palestine-Israel; Christian Zionists; conspiracy theories; climate change
https://www.apocalypticgeopolitics.com/
Gavin Beinart-Smollan @beismo.bsky.social Public and digital historian. PhD candidate at NYU. Writing about Yiddish family letters and the Lithuanian Jewish diaspora. Very amateur genealogist.
Callum Sutherland @callumsutherland.bsky.social Geography(w/Religion+Desire+Postcapitalism)/Tattoos/Drums
Publications: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=mZgNrLYAAAAJ
Josep 🍉 Almudever Chanza @josepchanza.bsky.social Lecturer in Social Geographies, Newcastle University: religious innovation, gender, sexuality, ethnography, Europe's South. Poet. He/him. Posts my own.
Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social The Religious Archives Group (RAG) is a voluntary organization supporting the archives of all faith communities in the UK, including those of secularist organizations.
https://religiousarchivesgroup.org.uk
Michael Eden @michaeledenart.bsky.social Artist and researcher. Academic Lecturer at University of Arts London. PhD from Middlesex University.
https://linktr.ee/Michael_Eden
Helen Antrobus @helenantro.bsky.social 📚 Curator & historian working for a big conservation charity, nattering about 20th c women, political and landscape histories (sometimes all at once).
🎧 Presenter and giddy kipper of #BackWhen, the National Trust's history pod: https://shorturl.b
Sophia Nicolov @sophianicolov.bsky.social Environmental historian. Mainly whales, whaling, ocean and empire. Mostly 20th century and contemporary history.
AHRC ECR Fellow at the Natural History Museum, London. Leading the project ‘Cetacean (Re)Sources’
*Views my own.
Danielle Kinsey @daniellekinsey.bsky.social historian of 19C Britain & Empire, diamonds, history of the body, material culture, consumption, minerals & mining, teaching & learning, Carleton U, settler🏳️🌈 co-editor-in-chief @h-materialculture.bsky.social
Jim Cheshire @jimchesh.bsky.social Associate Prof. Gothic Revival, Tennyson, stained glass ; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2371-2142;
Co-Director http://www.lincolnconservation.co.uk;
Honorary Secretary, Tennyson Society https://tennysonsociety.com/
Dr Leona Watson (formerly Skelton) @infrastructuregeek.bsky.social Associate Prof in Environmental History, Northumbria Uni. Editor in Chief, Environment and History. Environmental, social and cultural impact of British water and transport infrastructure, 1500-2000. Authored Tyne after Tyne and Sanitation in Urban Britain
footprintsoflondon.com @footprintsoflondon.bsky.social Quality guided London walks by & for those who #LoveLondon delivered with care, professionalism, insight and enthusiasm.
@footprintsoflondon - Where Londoners Walk
Thomas Cauvin @thomascauvin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public history at C2DH at University of Luxembourg. International Federation for Public History. Co-production, citizen science. #publichistory #Citizenscience https://www.uni.lu/en/person/NTAwMzk5NTZfX1Rob21hcyBDQVVWSU4=/
Deaf Heritage @deafheritage.bsky.social Deaf historian and filmmaker
David Martin @davidmartin8293.bsky.social Misplaced Indo-Cantab-Historian.
Ph.D researcher, St. Catz
Christianity and the history of caste.
Substack: https://substack.com/@davidmartin8293
Lucy Haigh @lucyhaigh.bsky.social PhD on Queen Alexandra & the political press, 1863-1925 🗞 Femininity, & monarchy 👑
Currently working on an exhibition.
@historythroughher.bsky.social
https://www.lucyhaigh.com/
Andrew Rumsey @andrewrumsey.bsky.social Incoming Bishop of St Albans. C of E lead for built heritage, writer & musician.
Patricia Stoughton @patriciastoughton.bsky.social Mostly writing about the tidal Thames and concentrating on my blog: thetidalthames.com Occasionally writing about Brittany, France and Belgium, and their cultural links with the UK. Was writing for "hidden europe" magazine and others...
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/
LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
Dr Tanya Rideout (Hawkes) @tanyabluedog.bsky.social Historian on working-class lives, environmentalism, health. PhD coal gas, pollution & heritage. I also do radical HR systems to humanise workplaces. She/her. 🐇🏴
https://substack.com/@tanyahawkes
Cordelia Freeman @cordyf.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Geography at the University of Exeter. Interested in abortion access in Latin America, border geopolitics, and representation. She/her.
Patrick van der Geest @ideesdupasse.bsky.social British-Dutch PhD candidate @ Lund University 🇬🇧🇳🇱🇸🇪 | Researching Hope & Co. + the business of empire 🐙 | Colonial & global history | Husband of @hindenrijk 👬 | Committed 🐱 dad | He/him 🏳️🌈🇪🇺 | Views my own
Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social Sen Lecturer, Eng Lit, Bristol Uni & Dir. of MA in Eng Lit. I research alcohol in 19th Century. Co-Dir. Drinking Studies Network (https://drinkingstudies.wordpress.com/).
https://shop.bl.uk/products/dead-drunk-tales-of-intoxication-and-demon-drinks
David Lawton @davidlawton.bsky.social