British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Family Tree Plus @familytreeplus.bsky.social Family Tree has one simple mission: to help you discover your family stories. Find out more at www.family-tree.co.uk
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Manu @mmt-williams.bsky.social Standing strategically in front of the weeds.
Aviation Cultures Conference @avculturesconf.bsky.social A place where researchers and practitioners come together to share their knowledge and ideas of flight, and its place in history and society.
Posts by @tashheap.bsky.social and @jdkightly.bsky.social
aviationcultures.org
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Ariane Mak @arianemak.bsky.social Lecturer in British history, Université Paris Cité
Miners, Mass-Observation and Oral History
📖 En guerre et en grève. Enquêtes dans les cités minières britanniques (1939-1945), Ed. EHESS, 2025
https://echelles.u-pariscite.fr/membre/mak-ariane-fr/
AGRA Genealogy @agragenealogy.bsky.social Association of Genealogists & Researchers in Archives - We are professional researchers supporting the highest standards in family history and genealogy. www.agra.org.uk
Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social Polymath from politics, strategy, arts, humanities and business. Historian of Germany.
https://linktr.ee/PhilipWBlood
https://philipwblood.substack.com/
Dr Laura Eastlake @victorianmasc.bsky.social James Murray Beattie Lecturer in Victorian Lit | University of Glasgow | Co-founder @EHUNineteen.bsky.social Research Centre | #Classics | #Gothic lit | Author: Ancient Rome & Victorian Masculinity (OUP, 2019). FRHistS. She/her. #c19th
@cambrian-explorer.bsky.social @cambrian-explorer.bsky.social Half of the Elan Valley International Dark Sky Park events team. Assistant school exams officer. Mender, tinkerer, maker. No anti-car zealots or authoritarians of any stripe.
Society of Australian Genealogists @socaustgen.bsky.social Educating family historians since 1932: courses, events, library, community & more www.sag.org.au #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #findyourfamily
Dr Rosie Paice @rosiepaice.bsky.social Author of "Milton's Loves: From Amity to Caritas in the Paradise Epics" (Routledge, 2023). Thomas Fairfax; green and blue spaces on estates of 17&18C; ASLE-UKI Membership Secretary
Francis van Berkel @fvanberkel.bsky.social PhD Candidate. Researching India’s contribution to the First World War and its after-effects in the 1920s and 1930s.
Lucy Jameson @lucyanne.bsky.social History PhD Candidate | Researching disabled expertise and adaptations to technology in the British Post Office #histtech #histsci #histmed
Long-suffering NUFC supporter
Oxfordshire Community Rail Partnership @oxcrp.bsky.social 🚆 Connecting Communities
🌱 Promoting sustainable travel & car-free adventures
🛤️ Supporting local stations, tourism & accessibility
Richard M. Jones @wreckmasterjay.bsky.social Historian and author, writer of 24 published books on disasters, shipwrecks and history.
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Ciara Breathnach @ciarab.bsky.social Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en& 
Liam Johnston MBE @liamjohnston.bsky.social Working for Railway Mission, a UK charity and doing all I can to keep 'She Who Must Be Obayed' happy.
Railway Mission @railwaymission.bsky.social 
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Graham Mooney @histgeoghealth.bsky.social Historian of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Manc. Homebrew. Native American plants. Bees. Geography.
Transport for All @transportforall.org.uk The disabled-led group breaking down barriers and transforming the transport system so disabled people can travel with freedom, dignity, ease and confidence.
Join our community for transport justice: https://www.transportforall.org.uk
Laura Sellers @laurasellers.bsky.social Historian of medicine, science, forensics & prisons. Freelance curator and heritage consultant. Former curator at Thackray Museum of Medicine. She/her
Dr Mirjam S. Brusius @mideastineurope.bsky.social Heritage & History Professor btw Germany, the UK & the Mid East
Writes on Photography, Memory, Preservation, Destruction, Museums & Museum Storage. PhD Cambridge/HPS
Co-curates @100histories.bsky.social
https://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=542
Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre @lrfheritage.bsky.social The Lloyd's Register Foundation Heritage Centre explores the importance & development of maritime safety and classification.
Giorgia Tolfo @giorgiatolfo.bsky.social Collections Researcher, The National Archives (UK)
Interested in visual collections, walking, landscape and literature.
Writer and translator
Website: giorgiatolfo.com
Murray Tremellen @drmtremellen.bsky.social Historian and museum curator. #ActuallyAutistic. Views my own. He/him.
John Pullin @johnpullin.bsky.social Ex-journalist, new PhD, grandfather and father, AFC Wimbledon, cricket, Furzedown, sometimes Leicester, forever Bath.
Robert Dingwall @rwjdingwall.bsky.social Consulting sociologist, researcher, writer and entrepreneur. Medical sociology; sociology of law; STS; ethnomethodology; CA. Re-post does not imply endorsement.
Ant Dawson @railwayhobbit.bsky.social Historian, Archaeologist, and Museum Professional who is also an Organist, Christian Universalist, Rower, Geek. Into Boardgames, Reenactment, Heavy Metal and with a soupcon of Long-Covid.
BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social The British Society for the History of Science is Britain's largest learned society devoted to #HistSTM #HSTM #HistSci. Handled by Comms Officer: Alexander Stoeger
Cheshire Local History Association @clha.bsky.social A gathering of societies with an interest in and an understanding of the history of Cheshire. Reposts are not endorsements.
See more on our website: www.cheshirehistory.org.uk 
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
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
Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social Encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain | #HlfSupported #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
DGLaity @dglaity.bsky.social * Actor & Voice Actor 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺
* Irish Equity & Executive Team
* FIA Actors Disability Committee since '24
* SAG-E
* Freelance Crew 🎬🎭🪄🎼🌳
* Certified Adult Learning Tutor
* Founded MrsMouse '08
* Genealogy 🧱🌳📜🖥️🧬
* Handler of World's 1st 🦮 in 🎭 & 🎬
* 🦮 Partner
The Family Histories Podcast @familyhistoriespodcast.com The Family Histories Podcast is a show for and about #familyhistory addicts. A guest, a life story, a brick wall, and a bit of #timetravel. Host: @familytreeuk.co.uk
https://familyhistoriespodcast.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
Science Museum @sciencemuseum.org.uk Welcome to the home of human ingenuity. We curate a world-renowned collection & organise exhibitions and events for over 3 million visitors a year. Read our community guidelines: https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/smg-social-media-community-guidelines
David Stevenson @drdavest.bsky.social Trains, trams, beer, food, science, music, travel, history, cycling. Not necessarily in that order!
Retired medic, innovator and researcher.
Hampshire UK
@drfionamccall.bsky.social @drfionamccall.bsky.social 
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.
Catherine Esbester @gingerfig.bsky.social Former bricks and mortar retailer now online at www.gingerfig.co.uk
Jonathan Calder @lordbonkers.bsky.social Blogger at Liberal England. Expect Dickens, politics, Steve Winwood, canals, British films, Richard Jefferies, Shropshire, Englishness, chess, social history, Malcolm Saville, philosophy, Leicestershire and Rutland, comedy, railways... That sort of thing.
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
Mathias Seiter @drmseiter.bsky.social Historian of C19th Germany with an interest in port town cultures, national identities, spaces, borderlands, and Jewish Germans. Also VfB Stuttgart supporter & member (long-suffering)
Phil Marsh @marshrail.bsky.social 53 years a railway professional. Commercial, operations, media, marketing. Hogwarts fireman and guard. Olympic torch. East West Rail Alliance photographer. Special advisor to the Railway 200 project. And Royal Train stuff since 1997...
New Vic Borderlines @nvborderlines.bsky.social NV Borderlines is the award-winning initiative using theatre in social contexts. It works regionally, nationally & internationally.It uses theatre to help people find new & positive ways to understand themselves, their communities & their responsibilities.
Family Tree Magazine @familytreemag.bsky.social Discover, preserve and celebrate your family history. #familytreemag #familytreemagazine
Bimonthly magazine (published six times per year) with print and digital subscriptions. Monthly podcasts. Daily and weekly e-newsletters.
CheminsdeFerTC @cheminsdefertc.bsky.social Intérêts pour les Chemins de Fer, ferroviphile. Clichés trouvés sur le net pouvant être retirés sur demande. Soutien à l'Ukraine face à l'agression russe.
Alicia Barnes @aliciarbarnes.bsky.social Developing research at SSEES, UCL and (slowly) writing a book on trains.
Bruno J. Strasser @brunostrasser.bsky.social Historian of Science, Technology, Medicine. Just out: Bruno J. Strasser & Thomas Schlich, The Mask: A History of Breathing Bad Air (Yale U Press, 2025)
brunostrasser.com
Scarcerc @scarcerc.bsky.social SCARCE aka Sustained Concerns: Administration of Mineral Resource Extraction in Central Europe (1550–1850), hosted by @univie.ac.at, funded by ERC
PI: Sebastian Felten @sebastianfelten.bsky.social
https://scarce.univie.ac.at
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
Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social Reader in Romanticism at University of Surrey. Research interests in travel writing, Romanticism, women's writing, history of science, shipwrecks and environmental humanities. Fellow of Surrey's Institute for Sustainability.
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/
PACTS @pactsuk.bsky.social Leading transport safety charity advising Parliamentarians on multi modal transport safety issues. Secretariat to Transport Safety APPG.
Family and Community Historical Research Society @fachrs.bsky.social Promoting research in family and community history, with a particular emphasis on the contribution of locally based micro-studies, especially through collaboration. Our annual project for 2026 is on nursing, so expect a few posts supporting the research.
History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social Independent researcher/writer in the history, heritage and culture sectors. Former Editor, History and Heritage Yorkshire Magazine, Bylines Network. Passionate about community and inclusivity Hate racism. Servant to a Patterdale,
Transport Matters @transportmatters.bsky.social Transport Matters is a new YouTube channel designed to highlight important transport stories and events that matter to people and passengers. Oh, and the odd quirky story too! https://t.co/y54MB7Ah2b
Ian Dinmore @tarkaman.bsky.social Semi-professional railman, into humour, rural railways, community rail, otters, cake and coffee. A passing photographer, Scripophillist, Graphologist, Calligraphist and aged likes a good whine.
Old Thurles @oldthurles.bsky.social Wildlife, sport, old stuff, history and ephemera
Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social #Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors
www.mirandakaufmann.com
www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann
Mixed Messages @signsthereading.bsky.social Tony McGrath. Using signs, advertisements and messages as the inspiration for observation and comment - enlightened and otherwise
Commemoration. Memorials. Graves. Headstones.
readingthesigns.weebly.com
Dave Steele @drdavesteele.bsky.social HISTORIAN of 19th CENTURY REFORM CROWDS
Focus on mismatch between crowd size, reputation & power
Warwick Thesis: bit.ly/-PhD
Working on chapter in 2026 Parl. Hist. Sp. Ed.
& Editing Routledge Collection on 19th C. Sedition
Academic profile: bit.ly/ds-1-
Paula Bailey @auntiep.bsky.social Welsh woman living on the south coast of Englandshire. Learner of stuff, maker of things. Qualified genealogist. Love music festivals. Say hello, I don't bite 😎
📜 🧶 🧵 🎪 📷
Rob Bonser-Wilton @waterloosunsetrail.bsky.social Proof never too old for Politics & Contemp History 1st at University of Chichester.Backstage to stellar Helen Bonser-Wilton at Leeds Castle Kent. Charisma is a gift.Cornish Expat. Humanist.Research:UK Southern Railways for future multimedia Waterloo Sunset
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!
Emily C. Bruce @amocantare.bsky.social Modern European historian; Associate Prof. at the University of Minnesota Morris; author of Revolutions at Home: The Origin of Modern Childhood and the German Middle Class (UMass, 2021); SMC of twins; she/her. Views expressed here are my own.
German at Portsmouth @germanatportsmouth.bsky.social Come and study German at the TEF Gold-rated University of Portsmouth on England's beautiful South Coast! https://www.port.ac.uk/study/subject-area/languages
Factory Gothic / Bridget Marshall @factorygothic.bsky.social Sharing 19th-century Gothic industrial research
Dr. Bridget Marshall (she/her), Professor of English, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Books: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/industrial-gothic/ and https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/mary-elizabeth-braddon-marshall/
Catriona Haine - MarpleCat @marplecat.bsky.social Scottish Professional Qualified Genealogist (MSc Genealogy Strath.) investigating family histories & mysteries Involving Ireland & England as well as Scotland.
Director of RQG & AGRA Associate.
Citizen of 🏴 🇮🇪 & Lanarkshire lassie.
www.MarpleCat.com
Dr Laura Gray Blair @lauragrayblair.bsky.social Research Manager, Science Museum Group • rare books cataloguer, National Trust • Honorary Fellow, UCL • PhD on bibliotherapy in c.19th asylums • views own
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/
Kate @katesonanadventure.bsky.social Learning Disabilities Nurse and mum of two
Railway Enthusiast, History Lover, One third of the Wessex Ways podcast team
Let’s go on an Adventure!
Glamorgan Archives Archifau Morgannwg @glamarchives.bsky.social Darganfod y Gorffennol / Discovering the Past
https://glamarchives.gov.uk/
Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social Wildflowers; Nature; Genealogy; Retired Clinical Librarian; Wife, Mum, Grandma; Photos with mobile phone; WW1 - also posts @aftwf1418.bsky.social
Lichfield & Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust @lhcrt.org.uk We are a volunteer-led charity, restoring two canals in Staffordshire, and reconnecting them to the BCN and national canal network.
Follow our feeds: #WeDigCanals #UKCanals #FloatingTraders #Lichfield
Find out more: https://lhcrt.org.uk/
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
People's Collection Wales @pplscollection.bsky.social A website, full of fascinating photographs, sound recordings, documents, videos and stories about the history of Wales.
uopmaritime @uopmaritime.bsky.social The Centre for Port Cities and Maritime Cultures at the University of Portsmouth focuses on the past, present and future importance of urban-maritime cultures and communities within a global context. Find out more at www.port.ac.uk/portcities 
South Wales Record Society @swalesrecordsoc.bsky.social Publishing sources for the history of south Wales
@xaudia.bsky.social @xaudia.bsky.social 
University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk UK trade union for academics, lecturers, trainers, researchers and professional services staff in further education, higher education, prison education, and adult and community education.
Manchester Histories @mcrhistories.bsky.social Manchester Histories is an award-winning charity that works collaboratively to reveal, share and celebrate Greater Manchester’s diverse histories and heritage.
https://linktr.ee/manchesterhistories
Trades Union Congress @tuc.org.uk Breaking news, campaigns and advice from unions and the labour movement. https://tuc.org.uk
Southeast Communities Rail Partnership @southeastcrp.bsky.social Accredited rail partnership connecting communities to their railways across East and West Sussex, parts of Kent, Surrey, Berkshire and south-west London
www.southeastcrp.org
Nicola King @nicolaking.bsky.social Fellow of the Society of Indexers, ex-archaeologist, also family historian, mum, bell ringer, knitter and learning the cornet. Easily found elsewhere. https://abookindexer.com/ 
Tim Hedley-Jones @timhedleyj.bsky.social Director of the Railway Heritage Trust. But I get distracted by military history, the natural world, Yorkshire, classic aircraft, beer, cheese…etc etc
Society of Genealogists @sogorg.bsky.social 🌳 A charity with the unique purpose of helping people to discover their place in history.
📜 Preserving the records of everyday lives & promoting family histories.
📍 Explore more: sog.org.uk
#Genealogy #FamilyHistory #HistoryMatters
Mainly Museums @mainlymuseums.bsky.social A personal take on museums big and small from contributors across the globe.
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.
Erin Beeston (she/her) @erinbeeston.bsky.social Historian, writer, comedian, lived-experience autism researcher
History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk // Radical History in a Digital Era // https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/ //
|| enriching the work of History Workshop Journal || https://academic.oup.com/hwj/ ||
\\ continuing the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement \\
Chris Abbott @chrisabbott.bsky.social Theatre writer, reviewer for West End Best Friend. Pantomime enthusiast. Emeritus Reader, King's College London