Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | indexer | lay canon @stedscath.bsky.social | series editor for @universitypress.cambridge.org
Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social Former Postdoc at UniGenova | alumnus UToronto | First Gen+ASD | studies Mediterranean socioeconomic history 1200–1700, focusing on Genoa, slavery, commerce, networks, notarial contracts, and law | also digital humanities, semantic data and environment.
Will Melia @willm1966.bsky.social Left-leaning-middle-aged-Centrist. Books. Crosswords. Guitar. Cycling. Liverpool FC. Denver Broncos.
Why can’t we all just get along ?
Jonathan Simons @jonathansimons.bsky.social Partner, Public First and Head of Education Practice. Education strategy + policy advisory. Former civil servant + think tanker. Occasional loud LFC. Centrist Dad, so naturally I also have a Substack.
Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social Professor of Economics and Public Policy, King's College London; Senior Fellow, UKICE. Immigration, economics, public policy. Personal views only; usual disclaimers apply. https://jonathandportes.github.io/
Nathan Cardon @ncardon.bsky.social Associate Professor of U.S. History @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Wrote a book about world's fairs in Atlanta (1895) and Nashville (1897). Just finished another one about Americans, bicycles, and the world.
Laurence Cooley @lpcooley.bsky.social Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham
Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Recently also thinking about Lough Neagh. UCU rep. #firstgen
Catherine Baker @richmondbridge.bsky.social PERFORMING QUEER NATIONS: THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST IN POST-COLD-WAR EUROPE due from Manchester University Press in 2027. She/her.
Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him
Siobhán Dowling @siobhandowling.bsky.social Dubliner, Ex-Berliner, Editor at Internationale Politik Quarterly
@ipq.bsky.social. Doing an MPhil in literary translation at TCD. @tclctdublin.bsky.social she/her
Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk An independent charity that seeks to fund blue skies research and scholarship. Follow this channel for details on upcoming grant deadlines, published research, scheme opening dates, grant announcements, events, and more. https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/
Urban History Association (the official account) @urbanhistorya.bsky.social If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social Publishing exceptional research since 1899.
Home to @pavilionpoetry.bsky.social, @oxunienl.bsky.social, @modlangopen.bsky.social, and @lupdistribution.bsky.social.
linktr.ee/livunipress
Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social Professor of History, University of Saskatchewan
Co-Editor of Historical Methods.
Environmental and digital historian of London, Canada and the British World in the 19th century. #dyslexic
tess wingard @tesswingard.bsky.social historian of medieval gender and sexuality. assistant professor, university of rochester. she/her.
tesswingard.wordpress.com
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social Former economist and civil servant. Former (age related) national cycling champion. Still a music fan. Sewn up member of the Zipper Club.
helen bowman @helybow.bsky.social Buildings (mainly post-war) & politics. Insightful musings stolen? Procrastinator. Cornish/living in Edinburgh. Attempting PhD on New Labour and built heritage.
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social Ex- lots of things.
Podcast is Mass for Shut-ins. Subscribe for good stuff on Patreon.com/ginandtacos.
Alfie Hancox @alfiehancox.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain and empire, working in Adult Education |
PhD on Black Power and Anti-Imperial Solidarity in the UK at @unibirmingham.bsky.social (completed 2025) |
Contributing Editor of Ebb Books and @prometheusmagazine.bsky.social
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/
Ruth Mersereau @ruthmersereau.bsky.social Green Party Councillor for City Ward (Kelham Island/Neepsend/City Centre/Highfield), Sheffield City Council.
She/her
Binfluencer 🚮
Promoted by Eamonn Ward, 73 Eskdale Road S6 1SL, on behalf of Sheffield Green Party.
Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social Climate action, regenerative thinking, doughnut economics, circular economy. Mum stuff & rollerskates. Liminality, Neighbourhood connection in St Paul’s & local project Planet Chelt and The Greenhouse with Vision 21.
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social Historian of race, blackness, and complexion in modern Britain | Teaching & Research Fellow in Black British History at the University of Edinburgh | Convenor at @ihrblackbritish.bsky.social
https://oliviawyatt1999.wordpress.com/
Josh Neicho @joshneicho.bsky.social 🖋️ Comms and journalism, scribble-bibble mostly in the West Mids 🏭🌾, often in London 💂♂️. Grassroots politics, society, culture, media, history, walking, SMEs & social enterprise, global UK, cheap eats from Kingswinford-Kings Cross 🪢👑
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social Political Economist at City Uni
Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social Senior Fellow at European Council on Foreign Relations. #Drone politics PhD @ox.ac.uk. Teaches at @SciencesPo.bsky.social. Writes about all things #Germany #Defence #miltech. Podcast host at @SicherheitsPod.de & LeCollimateur
Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com Freelance science & technology journalist. 12+ years experience. Irish/Polish. Writes for the BBC, Wired, The Guardian and others!
Portfolio: chrisbaraniuk.com
Newsletter: thereengineer.pro
Coaching: chrisbaraniuk.com/coaching
HQ: Belfast, N. Ireland
Alan Rew @alanrew.bsky.social UK-based retired software developer.
Art, Photography, Science, Music, Economics, Politics, Geology, Physics, Chemistry, Earth Science, Architecture, Archaeology
I can't send/receive DMs here.
Signal: alan.285
Tom Emery @tomemery.bsky.social retired from posting
Grace Mallon @gracemallon.bsky.social British historian of the United States. Clive Holmes Fellow in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Obsessed with American federalism.
Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social Heritage, Archaeologist, solidarity, she/her - hoping for more kindness, often anxious and sharp. Professionally garrulous. Living in Cardiff. Ageless, so no DMs
Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman @niamhroisin.bsky.social Cultural historian. Associate Professor, School of History & Geography, University of Limerick. Current book project -the development of Catholic architecture in Ireland, 1780s-1950s. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
Hilary Buxton @hbuxton.bsky.social Bodies, care + medicine in the British Empire // Associate Professor of History @ Kenyon College // Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain (U Chicago Press, 2026)
James Richardson @acjimbo.bsky.social Hosts @totallyshow.bsky.social, a podcast about football
Joe Moran @joemoransblog.bsky.social Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
Lydia Sigismondi, Ph.D. @sigismonday.bsky.social Historian of the 18th Century Atlantic World. PhD from USC. Angelino by way of Baltimore. TCM nerd. Mother of cats. C-PTSD. Eternal Orioles optimist & pragmatic progressive.
Nathan Cornish @njcornish.bsky.social Environmental History and Digital Humanities PhD student. Working on early 19th century plant exchange in the British empire in the archives at Kew Gardens.
University of Southampton, Kew Gardens, Exeter University, SWWDTP
🦋🌻🪴
Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social 🏭 Transnational partnership project examining the politics, historical roots and lived experiences of deindustrialization.
Based at COHDS: https://storytelling.concordia.ca/
Website: https://deindustrialization.org/ 
Marco Andreu @mrcandreu.bsky.social PhD | 🇨🇭 civil servant, here in a personal capacity | #politicaleconomy, #globaldev, #finance, #ethics | @WarwickCFG | he/him.
Mastodon: @MrcAndreu@det.social
ana valdivia @anavaldi.bsky.social Lecturer in AI, Government & Policy at the OII (University of Oxford) | Author of "The Ecologies of Algorithmic Machines" (2027) | Associate Editor at Big Data & Society | Investigating algorithmic and environmental accountability of LLMs
Nora Lehner @nora-lehner.bsky.social PhD on sexual labour in Vienna (1945-mid-70s) @univienna I Historian at Institut für Historische Sozialforschung I she/her
Equator @equatormag.bsky.social A magazine of politics, culture and art
equator.org
Kimia @kimiat.bsky.social 
João Fusco Ribeiro @joaofuscoribeiro.bsky.social Historian | Professor at the Center for Totalitarian Studies | Pilecki Institute | Warsaw | Researching Cold War in Africa
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-0600
Ian Loader @ianloader.bsky.social I teach and research criminology stuff at the University of Oxford - https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/people/ian-loader. I am also Chair of Cyclox - https://www.cyclox.org. You'll find me musing on ecologies of security, policing, urban mobilities and Arsenal FC
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)
Andrew Hobbs @drewhobbs.bsky.social Historian of the provincial press,looking at how 19C local papers and 20C county magazines express our sense of place. Despairing socialist. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?hl=en&user=20iBowIAAAAJ
Michael Ironheart @michaelironheart.bsky.social I am a self published indie author who has released 2 books, with a 3rd on the way
22 years old/college student/AuDHD
Dan @d-j-frost.bsky.social Historian of the near-present ✍️
Co-editor of In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956 (@manchesterup.bsky.social, 2025)
#cpfc 🔵🔴
Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social Host of The Dig podcast, author of All-American Nativism.
Katherine CM Cross @kcross.bsky.social Historian of the Early Middle Ages based in York.
John-Paul Stonard @johnpaulstonard.com Writer
New book: THE WORST EXHIBITION IN THE WORLD, DEGENERATE ART, 1937, out now 🚀
Alex Doherty @redandinexpert.bsky.social Host of @poltheoryother podcast.
Alice Sverdlik @asverdlik.bsky.social Lecturer in Urban Development Planning @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
Informality, climate, health, and equitable urbanisation. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/alice.sverdlik
Alison McGovern @allymcgovern.bsky.social Labour MP for Birkenhead, Minister of State.
Progressive.
www.alisonmcgovern.org.uk
Dr Beckie Rutherford (she/her) @beckierutherford.bsky.social Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | UKRI Research Fellow @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social | Editor @historyworkshop.org.uk | erstwhile Warwick and IHR
Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social Lecturer Education Futures & Digital Education based at Edinburgh Futures Institute, University of Edinburgh. Own views.
Mike Pinnington ✍️ @doublenegativem.bsky.social Writer | Editor | Art Criticism | Writing the City | Class | Science Fiction | Popular Culture | PhD student | Lecturer | Incorrigible Buyer of Books
https://mikepinnington.cargo.site/
https://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Dance & Movement | Women’s Writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee | Reviewer, Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Miles Glendinning @milesglendinning.bsky.social historian of mass housing (global + HK). New HK housing history: https://www.routledge.com/Hong-Kong-Public-Housing-An-Architectural-and-Policy-History/Glendinning/p/book/9781138680227. Global housing archive: https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/handle/10283/2927
Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social Bisexual history, queer history, cats. she/her
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
Darby Fellow at Lincoln College, Oxford. Views etc, my own.
Trix @trixranderson.bsky.social Archaeologist at North Yorkshire Historic Environment Record: special interest in Viking-Age Britain and the Great Heathen Army
Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at the University of York & Associate Researcher at CEVIPOF, Sciences Po, working on political psychology & political behavior.
pvasilopoulos.weebly.com
Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social calmerfuture.org
dreaming of practical better futures
@dosima_org on the other place
Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social Teaches and researches modern British History. Nottingham and Brighton, UK. He/him.
Judith Krauss @judithekrauss.bsky.social Lecturer @ UoYork, UK, Politics, IGDC member, YESI co-research theme lead, Assoc Editor @JPoliticalEcology. Sustainable value chains, convivial conservation, SDGs, squirrels & more. Love singing & cycling, sometimes in conjunction. My views. She/her
Dylan Kerrigan @rumagin.bsky.social Anthropologist, Caribbeanist, Sociologist. Peacebuilding
www.dylankerrigan.com
(every so often i delete all my replies)
lawrence jones @lawrentian.bsky.social PhD & Assoc Lecturer @ University of Reading | Modernism, 19th-20th C liberalism, Woolf, Forster, social class | Manuscripts, publishing, archives & special collections | Part-time Admin Asst @ Centre for Book Cultures & Publishing @ University of Reading
Sian Broadhurst @sianbroadhurst.bsky.social Urbanism, housing, garden city movement |PhD student at York University | Trustee at Curious Arts and Groundwork SANT
Dr. Lucia Akard @luciaakard.bsky.social Medievalist working on sexual violence, victim/survivor studies and sex work. British Academy Postdoc at University of York.
Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author. FRSL. FRHistS. WTF. #Empireworld #EmpireLand #TheBoyWithTheTopknot #MarriageMaterial. New book on George Michael, Tonight the Music Seems So Loud, published by Picador, out now. https://shorturl.at/qhPlJ
Emily Hoge @emilyehoge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
David Lawton @davidlawton.bsky.social 
Annie Kelly @annieknk.bsky.social Researching antifeminism, conspiracy theories and the far right. PhD from UEA, former postdoc on Everything is Connected project. UK correspondent for QAA Podcast + MAN CLAN and writer of Vaccine: The Human Story. New series TRULY TRADLY DEEPLY out now!
Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk Geopolitics • Armed Politics/Political Violence • Philosophy • Political Geographies • Palestine
——
Host of BLOOD WORK: An economy of violence.
@bloodwork.show // bloodwork.show
Carlos Noreña @carlosfnorena.bsky.social Ancient Historian @ UC Berkeley • 🇪🇦 • politics | sports | electronic music • He/Him
Max Rushden @maxrushden.bsky.social 
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com I report on ICE flights and third-country removals at @prospect.org. Former WaPo (sigh), former flight attendant.
Third-Country Removal Tracker: https://gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all-of-trumps-third-country-removals-that-we-know-of/
Signal: gbrockell.44
Priyamvada Gopal @priyamvadagopal.bsky.social Professor at a University in the Fens. 
MattSaysHello @mattsayshello.bsky.social Socialist | ADHD | Films | Arsenal | He/Him
Opinions are mine and not of ASDA Clapham Junction because I don’t work there
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.
Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social 
Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social (Digital) historian of fifteenth and sixteenth century cities, communities, trade, guilds, maps
Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social Historian of the United States, mostly 19th c., colonialism, land, GIS
Hamish Kallin @hamishkallin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Edinburgh. Interested in cities, housing, capitalism. Sometime artist and drummer.
staring blankly into the abyss @irmsby.bsky.social Settler historian of food, health and colonialism | hapless area man | amateur squirrel theorist | against fascism | sometimes make music: https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/thrums/vast-spaces-without-reprieve
Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social Writer of books, most recently: No Questions Asked: How Football Joined the Crypto Con (amzn.to/42aKE0w). Investigative pieces at http://theuglygame.wordpress.com/
Signal: mcalladine.44
Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social but views own.
Elizabeth Stokoe @lizstokoe.bsky.social Professor and Associate Vice President (Impact) at #LSE | Psychologist | Hon FBPsS | Hon Prof @lborouniversity.bsky.social | @IndependentSage.bsky.social Behaviour Group | Conversation Analyst #EMCA | she/her | own views | #AcademicSky