adrianogranto.bsky.social @adrianogranto.bsky.social Lecturer in History at Ulster University with interests in urban history, oral history, modern Ireland, and working class life.
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
WYFRS @wyfrs.bsky.social 🔥 Official West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service account 🚨 In case of emergency always dial 999 📸 http://instagram.com/wyfrs 👉 Tik Tok @wyfrs
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social Associate Professor in History at McMaster University specialising in histories of environmental health and contamination. She/her
Gary Love @garylove.bsky.social Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
Rock's Backpages @rocksbackpages.bsky.social www.rocksbackpages.com
The world's largest archive of music journalism: 60,000+ classic articles and a thousand audio interviews by pop's finest writers, spanning 60 years across all genres.
New edition and newsletter every Friday.
Rebecca Madgin @imadgination03.bsky.social Place - Heritage - Emotion - Urban History
Professor of Urban Studies at University of Glasgow
Arts & Humanities Research Council Place Programme Director
Views/posts/likes etc my own
The People's Papers @peoplespapers.bsky.social ~ all about the archives ~
A research project exploring 1970s activist print culture. Current project: local Manchester newspapers @wcmlibrary.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/peoplespapers
Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social Femme the city! Exploring the (re)production/labor/work/care in/of/for/as the city
[PhD in progress on 1970s feminist spatial politics in London + NYC]
Football Fanzine Culture @fanzinefc.bsky.social Blogs from www.Footballfanzineculture.blog looking at the history & culture of football fanzines with occasional pieces about individuals and teams related to that.
Remember LOP @rememberlop.bsky.social Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social 
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social Academic historian interested in teaching based in the UK
She/ her
Dyslexic - Dyspraxic
Shares her office with cats 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Siobhan McHugh @siobhan-mchugh.bsky.social 🎓 Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology at Leeds Beckett University 🧠 Applied health services researcher curious about healthcare policy, management, quality & safety.
Bénédicte Miyamoto @miyamotoben.bsky.social Historian of 18c Britain (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris - @CREW EA 4399)
Book history, Art World, Digital Humanities. Pigment, Auction, Migration, Circulation of knowledge & artists.
She/her/Dr
Clodagh Tait @clodaghtait.bsky.social Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore.
https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social Cultural/social/materials historian: Hubbub / Cheek by Jowl / Rummage (reuse & recycling) /Penning Poison. Anonymous letters (OUP, 2023) Professor at UEA History. + embroidery & occasional cats.
Agent: Clare Alexander. Website: www.rummage.work
Graham Thorpe (gribbles) @grahamthorpe.bsky.social Amateur #musician currently creating a kind of laid back #electronica and getting involved in stuff that will do nice things for people.
Aiming to Do More #Art in the future. We'll see...
Stuff: https://flow.page/gribbles
The Sick Man Of Europe @thesickmanofeurope.bsky.social The Intermittent Signal
25 September 2026
Matthew Grant @mgrnt.bsky.social Historian - University of Essex (currently Head of School, Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies)
Vivienne Dunstan @vivdunstan.bsky.social Academic historian, genealogist, former computer scientist, Doctor Who fan and accordionist. Scottish Borderer from Hawick now living in Dundee, Scotland. Pronouns she/her. Equality ally. #BLM. https://vivdunstan.co.uk
Alex Parry, Ph.D. @safetyworkhstm.bsky.social Historian of home injuries, public health, and product safety at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Former Ph.D. student and graduate worker organizer at Johns Hopkins. Still frustrated and/or over-caffeinated.
Rob Dale @robdale.bsky.social Historian of Russia and the Soviet Union. Cyclist, marathon runner, train traveller. Based in Newcastle and York. Osbaldwick cricket club cap no.247
Martin Johnes @martinjohnes.bsky.social Historian at Swansea Uni. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of Sport in Wales.
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.
General Federation of Trade Unions @gftu.org.uk Founded 1899. A federation of trade unions. Delivering trade union education through @gftuet.org.uk. Building solidarity. The home of @strikemap.org #GFTU.
All our links: beacons.ai/gftu
Moritz Föllmer @moritzfoellmer.bsky.social Historian of Twentieth-Century Germany and Europe at the University of Amsterdam
https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/f/o/m.foellmer/m.foellmer.html
new book: The Quest for Individual Freedom: A Twentieth-Century European History
https://www.cambridge.org/nl/u
Journal of Disaster Studies @jds-disasters.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Journal of Disaster Studies, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.
https://www.pennpress.org/journals/journal/journal-of-disaster-studies/
Justice For Summerland @justicesummerland.bsky.social We will continue to press the Isle of Man Govt to do what is right, overturn the death by misadventure verdict and deliver justice for all those affected
Fire Brigades Union @fbunational.bsky.social We are the voice of firefighters and the fire and rescue service in the UK.
Promoted by the Fire Brigades Union, 171-173 Gray’s Inn Road, WC1X 8UE
Joe Harley @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in History at ARU | Researches poverty, welfare, consumption and material culture | Obsesses over fonts far too much | Views own
Georgia Priestley @gpriestley.bsky.social Publisher of Humanities Journals at Cambridge University Press, mostly in History.
Views are mine all mine. she/her
Hamish Hawk @hamishhawk.bsky.social I think you'd prefer a firmer hand
hamishhawk.com
Steve Tombs @stevetombs.bsky.social Emeritus Prof (criminology) @open-university.bsky.social, trustee @inquest-org.bsky.social, love @gmhazardscentre.bsky.social Justice after Grenfell? Marx, Spurs, Reggae, Gramsci, The Clash, Social Harm, Luxemburg (Rosa)- not necessarily in that order
MacRunner @macrunning.bsky.social Running, music, happily retired and married to Dr Lynn
Geneviève Massard @genmass.bsky.social Historienne, professeure émérite à l'EHESS
Pollution industrielle. Justice sociale et environnementale.
Soutien indéfectible à tous les droits des Palestinien.nes
Lyon ("Tout l'monde y peut pas être de Lyon. Il en faut ben d'un peu partout !")
Hayley Wright @hayleywright.bsky.social Partying like it's 1799... Researcher of poverty, crime and disease in historic London and proud trustee of @hist_towns. On the lookout for PhD collab./funding.
Matthew Davies @mpdavies.bsky.social Urban historian, especially medieval and early modern London. Pro-Vice Chancellor for Civic Engagement at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of @layersoflondon.bsky.social
Sarah Rees Jones @sarahrj.bsky.social Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, University of York. Trustee, UK Historic Towns Trust. #medievalsky
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
School of Humanities and Social Sciences @shsslbu.bsky.social Our School addresses important cultural and societal issues through research and teaching in Psychology, Speech & Language Therapy, Criminology, Sociology, Politics & International Relations, History, English & Creative Writing, and Media
S P A R K S @sparksofficial.bsky.social Ron Mael & Russell Mael | 💿 LIVE ON THE MOON 🌑 - out now! | subjects of #TheSparksBrothers | writers of #Annette | www.allsparks.com ✨
Kate Bosworth @darktrain.bsky.social Dark Train on Warminster Community Radio 105.5 FM y Radio MINERVA.
Monday 2200 BST//1800 ART
mixcloud.com/katebosworth/
Season: FORCEPS FUN SHOW [FFS]
BMH 🦹🏼♂️🦹🏻♀️🦜🦜☠️☠️
BlackAnimisM 🦎🐓🦊
Orquesta Delira ⚫️⚫️⚫️⚫️
Deer Shed Festival @deershed.bsky.social 3 days of the best in music, arts & science for the whole family, set in beautiful North Yorkshire parkland 🧡
25 - 28 July 2025 🦌
Global Urban History @globalurbanhistory.bsky.social GUHP (globalurbanhistory.org) is a meeting place for scholars interested in exploring the crossroads of urban history and global history.
@rru.eurosky.social @rru.eurosky.social Rewilding enthusiast, Good Omens acolyte. I repost Moomins and cycling infrastructure as good things need sharing with the world.
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Rachael Unsworth @leedstours.bsky.social Urban geographer & walking tour guide in Leeds 🌍 - local, in a global setting
https://www.leedscitywalkingtours.co.uk/
Researcher, writer ('Leeds: Cradle of Innovation'), presenter, Leeds Phil & Lit, musician 🎻 European
Professional chat posts only
Historic Environment Forum (HEF) @histenvforum.bsky.social The forum for the historic environment sector in England, supported by Historic England. http://www.historicenvironmentforum.org.uk
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Dr Ana-Maria Herman @anamariaherman.bsky.social Researching gender in the arts + STS + museums + digital + apps | See my blog site for more: www.anamariaherman.com | Author of 'Reconfiguring the Museum' (McGill-Queen's Uni Press, 2023)
The Conversation @theconversation.com News by experts. Free, independent and based on evidence.
This is a placeholder account - we're active on our national editions, which you can see on our pinned post.
Silke Machold @silkemachold.bsky.social Research & Innovation @Leeds Beckett, Professor of Corporate Governance, eclectic 
Construction History Society @constructionhist.bsky.social Construction history worldwide. Materials, technologies, systems and people relating to construction in the past. Journal, members' magazine, conferences etc
To get a follow-back tell us your construction interests.
https://www.constructionhistory.co.uk
Matthew Pennycook MP @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich | Minister of State for Housing and Planning | Email: matthew.pennycook.mp@parliament.uk
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
David Lawton @davidlawton.bsky.social 
Charlotte Wildman @drcharlottewildman.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
Paul Ward @profpaulward.bsky.social Former history professor. Co-production of historical knowledge. Critical study of Britishness. Working with Kirklees Local TV on military veterans of African descent in the UK since the 1960s. Free Palestine.
Ellie Munro @elmunro.bsky.social Researcher. Voluntary & community action: history, policy, theory. @cdjplus.bsky.social board. Former trade union bureaucrat & policy wonk. Brand: charity archives, institutional theory, campaigning, communities, disability, Godzilla. All snark mine.
David Geiringer @davidgeiringer.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain - interested in histories of sex, religion, and emotions. Senior Lecturer in Public History & Heritage @QMHistory
Ellie Brown @elliebrown.bsky.social Researcher, writer. Looking at twentieth-century architecture and design (shopping centres, public art, urban space, interior design).
emadeleinebrown.com
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.
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
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
Craig Spence @cspence.bsky.social Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
Gabriel Gagno @vidacotidiana.bsky.social teacher | early-career academic | urban history | housing history | former software developer
💼 Assistant Professor, University of the Philippines Visayas
🎓 MA, University of the Philippines Diliman
🗣️ TL/EN/ES
📍 MNL/ILO
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/
Research and Enterprise at Leeds Beckett University @lbu-rae.bsky.social Spreading the news of our research and enterprise activities at Leeds Beckett University #LBUresearch
linktr.ee/lbu_rae
Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations. 
Ann-Marie Foster @amfoster.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain (ephemera/war) and heritage researcher (archive/collections access for disabled & neurodivergent people). Will forget to post but happy to be in the room. They/them and she/her
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
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
Moa Carlsson @moacarlsson.bsky.social Historian of 20th-century Britain, esp. landscape planning and rural modernism. Lecturer at University of Edinburgh. Book on landscape architects and the post-war industrialisation of rural Britain forthcoming with CUP. 
Laura King (she/her) @lauracking.bsky.social Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on.
Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
Sam Jones @sam-jones.bsky.social History teacher & HoD at Bolder Academy.
TeachFirst ambassador 2015.
As a rule, usually dreaming about when I’m next teaching about the Vikings…
Nath Brudenell @nathbrudenell.bsky.social Hi, How Are You?
Matthew Daniel Eddy🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social History Prof @ Durham University | Historian of Britain and the Atlantic world | w/ special interests in the global history of science, medicine and technology (including AI).
Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow @ University of Cambridge // My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN (Verso) is out now 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Jasper Segerink @jsegerink.bsky.social Postdoc at the Centre for Urban History (University of Antwerp). Interested in lodging houses, migration history and urban history.
Neil Evans @neilevanshistory.bsky.social Historian of Modern Wales and beyond. Vice president of Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society; Joint editor (with Charlotte Williams) of UWP series 'Race, Ethnicity, Wales and the World' Published on urban history. women's social movements, empire.
David Rooney @rooneyvision.bsky.social Writer and curator. THE BIG HOP (Chatto & Windus/W. W. Norton) out now.
https://www.davidrooney.uk/the-big-hop
Emily Robinson @emilyrobinson.bsky.social History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd (and, relatedly, Humberside). Professor at Sussex.
Sian Broadhurst @sianbroadhurst.bsky.social Urbanism, housing, garden city movement |PhD student at York University | Trustee at Curious Arts and Groundwork SANT
Michael Reeve @drmichaelreeve.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: conflict & crisis, health & wellbeing, resilience | Writing a book about tobacco & modern war | Lecturer @ The Open University | Co-Chair @historylabplus.bsky.social | https://profiles.open.ac.uk/m-j-reeve | Yorkshireman
Dr Rachel Murphy @rachelmurphy.bsky.social Assistant Professor in Irish History @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Landed estates, history of family, local history, digital humanities | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
Emma Gallon @emmagallon.bsky.social Publisher @University of London Press | Humanities research and publishing | Open research
Divorce_History @divorcehistory.bsky.social A New Methodological Approach to the History of Divorce 1857-1923 @drjenniferaston.bsky.social @dianeranyard.bsky.social
@Northumbria Law School #ESRC #UKNatArchives #welshwomensaid #CAFCASS Website: https://hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/divorce_history
Nick Evans @nicholasevans.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Diaspora History at the University of Hull.
Andrew @macrunner.bsky.social Music, books, running, culture. Happily retired and married to Dr Lynn
Dr Lynn @lyndenwood.bsky.social Dr Lynn.
Ph.D Historian of Society & Culture. Theories of control within public space: Parks, Gardens, Cemeteries and Sunday Schools.
Autoimmune warrior.
Plays 🎹, loves old books, and enjoys gardening.
Married to MacRunner
Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Historian of 20thC France/Europe, incl. politics, ideas, (im)migration, empire. Editor, Contemporary European History. "Age of Hobsbawm" out 18 Aug: https://tinyurl.com/mwvt75fs