Heather M. Haley @heatherhaleyphd.bsky.social historian of Cold War social movements and the U.S. military | plant & cat mom | views expressed are mine alone
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
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Laura Tisdall @lauratisdall.bsky.social Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
Llafur: The Welsh People’s History Society @llafur.bsky.social Llafur: The Welsh People's History Society organises free regular history events and has an annual journal for members.
To join please visit our website: www.llafur.org
Alun Burge @alunburge.bsky.social Wales and international solidarity - Chile, Nicaragua, Palestine
Minnie Pallister, William Hazell & co-ops
Honorary Research Fellow National Museum Wales & Swansea University
Histories of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Identity @rgsi.bsky.social Manchester Metropolitan University's interdisciplinary research group spanning a wide range of intellectual traditions, topics and approaches, all of which are connected broadly to the theme of identity.
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
Dave Stowe @davidstowe1919.bsky.social Independent Researcher and Historian. Interests: Civilian Internment, Crime, Urban History, Interwar Years. TV & Film. Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Formerly https://x.com/InternierungWWI
Blog https://pelicanroad.wordpress.com/page/2/
Dr Jenny Woodley @jennywoodley.bsky.social Historian and Lecturer. US History. Race and Memory. Current project: Mourning at the Museum 
lewisryder.bsky.social @lewisryder.bsky.social Historian of collecting, museums and colonialism. Currently a Leverhulme ECF researching emotional politics of British colonial loot c.1750-1914.
@nataliethomlinson.bsky.social @nataliethomlinson.bsky.social Historian of gender and feminism in modern Britain; Associate Prof at the University of Reading
Nicola Edwards @nic-jim-ed.bsky.social Tired person | University of Wolverhampton | History graduate/ History Prize 2023 | PhD researcher in History - Working-class women in the 1960s🐺
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social The #WolfsonHistoryPrize is the most prestigious history writing prize in the UK.
Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social Professor of European Prehistory
Vice President, The Prehistoric Society
Archaeologist • digs hillforts, Celts • writes disciplinary history • resolving the structure of prehistoric society • unpicking patriarchal assertion from present to past • radical
PHRC @phrc-dmu.bsky.social The Photographic History Research Centre (PHRC) is a hub for innovative research into photography and its broader social and cultural significance based at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
She/her
Tom Dark @darkpublisher.bsky.social Non-fiction Publisher, Manchester University Press.
Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social Professor of migration law, based in Leicester. For social equality, multiculturalism and anti-colonialism. Now more than ever.
https://le.ac.uk/people/bernard-ryan
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anticolonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Georgina Brewis @profginab.bsky.social Professor of Social History, UCL Institute of Education. Student London: A New History of Higher Education in the Capital out now: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/student-london/
James Kneale @jameskneale.bsky.social Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him.
Author of Temperance Lives: Life Assurance, Drink and Medicine in Britain, 1840-1918 (Bloomsbury 2026)
Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
Simone Schleper 🟥 @moneschleper.bsky.social Environmental Historian, Science/Knowledge Scholar, tenured @maastrichtu.bsky.social 👩🏫
Regional Representative BeNeLux @eseh.bsky.social 🌍
Editor-in-Chief @jhokjournal.bsky.social 💻
Twin mom of three 🦸♀️
Balraj Samrai @deejaysamrai.bsky.social He/Him • Musician • DJ • Facilitator • Youth Worker
https://balrajsamrai.com/
https://linktr.ee/Balrajsinghsamrai
Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social Historian of C19th politics, Chartism, socialism, Radicalism. Currently working on working-class Radical ideas about chattel slavery and wages-slavery. Bye-Fellow at Homerton College Cambridge.
Sarah Ba @sarahbia.bsky.social Disabled, northerner, book hoarder, foreign language enthusiast, trade unionist, Green, and unabashed cat lady.
Joshi Herrmann @joshih.bsky.social millmedia.bsky.social editor/founder. Interested in #localjournalism and low-stakes media drama.
Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social Writer, journalist, researcher, trade unionist
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social Historian of capitalism, environment, and technology in the longue durée. Water history a specialty. Asst director of a center for advanced study. Adjunct prof. Dad. PhD. Delawarean. First Gen. Hoopy frood. Born at 344 ppm atmos CO2. No human is illegal
The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social Academic history journal, publishing in all fields and periods.
Find our content here:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr
Pierre Purseigle @purseigle.bsky.social Historian at the University of Warwick
Writing a global history of urban disasters for
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social Sociologist - he/him/his
Author - The Business of Racism: Labor & Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
https://dukeupress.edu/the-business-of-racism
Co-editor - Environmental Sociology Now
https://www.ucpress.edu/books/environmental-sociology-now
Federico D'Onofrio @fdonoff.eurosky.social Historian of data and government
Associate Professor, University of Bologna
https://federico-donofrio.github.io/
ERC Datarev project: datarev.univie.ac.at
Bruce Dorsey @profbrucedorsey.bsky.social Historian, writer. Professor of History, Swarthmore College. Most recent: MURDER IN A MILL TOWN (Oxford UP). Rep'd by Mullane Literary Associates.
Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social Dutchman 🇳🇱 in South 🇺🇸 | Politologist 🧑🎓 | columnist ✍️ | public speaker 🗣️ | Far-right politics 👌 | Soccer & Politics ⚽ | European politics 🇪🇺 | Defending democracy 👊 | punkrock 🎸 | #groundhopping ⚽🏒🏉 | movies 🎦 | watches ⌚ | no manels ❌ | only MY opinions 👋
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/
Dr Ala Sirriyeh 🇵🇸🍉 @alasirriyeh.bsky.social Sociologist at Lancaster University working on child and youth migration, migrant & antiracist activism, & sociology of emotions in migration. BA Mid Career Fellowship 2024-25- Britain's Child Migrants.
Hannah Jones @uncomfiest.bsky.social Sociologist. I work @sociowarwick.bsky.social but I am not my employer, obviously.
TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Pasadena for #nacbs2026!
Robin Mitchell @parisnoire.bsky.social Very tired Historian. Author #VénusNoire; writing bio on Suzanne Louverture. Blocks anon accts. Big shoe problem (#FrenchHistorianShoes). Rep’d by Chris Rogers/DCLAgency. Contact my PA @keanuheydari.bsky.social for talks.
Robinmitchellhistorian.com
Mark Nixon @fatbadger442.bsky.social historian of Victorian culture & politics (esp w material culture); curator & public historian; education advocate. Obsessed with 1884. Otherwise, on a bicycle. he/him
History: The Journal of the Historical Association @hisjournalha.bsky.social BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
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
Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians @socispal.bsky.social A collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians
socispal@proton.me
https://socispal.wordpress.com/about/
Diarmaid Kelliher @diarmaidkelliher.bsky.social Human geographer & historian. Research on solidarity, labour, social movements etc.
Fabi Kutsche @fabikutsche.bsky.social Historian & archivist in training / Global Labour & Colonial History, Intersectional & Queer Feminisms, History of Psychiatry, Digital Methods and Archives. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ they/them - keine Pronomen / https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8348-9889
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Liz Wood @worsted.bsky.social Tired, archive-themed, occasionally falling over a cat.
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at University of Manchester. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks @remakingbritain.bsky.social Bluesky account for the Bristol University, Queen Mary University of London and British Library AHRC project, Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1830s to the present'
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
John Rooney @johnrooney.bsky.social Academic / Designer / Manchester School of Art / Europe
https://www.johnrooney.co.uk
Alexis Wear @alexiswear.bsky.social Political economist, business historian
UNISON Manchester Metropolitan University @unisonmmu.bsky.social The branch of UNISON for professional services staff at Manchester Metropolitan University, the students' union and the Royal Northern College of Music. All posts are our own.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
Bob Henderson @roberthenderson.bsky.social Historian of the Russian revolutionary emigration. Formerly Russian curator at the British Library. Based in East Neuk & Edinburgh, Scotland.
Latest book:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spark-that-lit-the-revolution-9781350344730/
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
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.
Christina Riggs @christinajriggs.bsky.social Writer and historian: photography, art, archives, museums, colonialism (Egypt, Sudan). Chair in the History of Visual Culture @durhamhistory.bsky.social. Author of Treasured: How Tutankhamun Shaped a Century. https://christinariggs.com
Leila Sellers @leilarsellers.bsky.social Wellcome funded PhD candidate
at Northeastern researching The Beaumont Society: A Transvestite History of Britain from the 1950s
Editorial Fellow at History Workshop
She/Her
David Ballantyne @dballantyne.bsky.social Historian who works mostly on politics, race and memory in the US from the Civil War onwards. Among other things, I like running, music and baking. Views are my own.
Su Lin Lewis @sulinlewis.bsky.social Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
Rochelle Rowe @drrochellerowe.bsky.social Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance.
Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh
Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions
agent: @WatsonLittle
Diana Paton @dianapaton.bsky.social Caribbean and global history. University of Edinburgh. New here. Need a photo.
Kate Dossett @katedossett.bsky.social Historian of theatre, culture, archives; Author of Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal; Collaborator on STAGING THE ARCHIVE: bringing to life plays by Black Theatre Makers working in early 20th Century Britain in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Collection.
Tionne Alliyah Parris @tionneaparris.bsky.social Historian |💭Black Women Radicals, Black Power & Continuities of Struggle✍🏾| Always up to something...
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
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
Annu Mayor @annumayor.bsky.social Previously Stonewall and Amnesty International. Now @bloodysundaytrust.bsky.social, @museumfreederry.bsky.social & @finucanecentre.bsky.social. Part-owner of football club @claptoncfc.co.uk. Trustee @oldspotteddog.bsky.social & Article 11 Trust. She/her
Dr Laura Humphreys @bogarty.bsky.social Curatorial Lead 🏛️
Science Museum Group collections 🛰️
Returned Cardiffian 🏴
Allotment Nerd 🌱
Views my own. She/her/hi
Claire Osborn @claireosborn.bsky.social Trade union organiser. Industrial Relations PhD-er. Accidental fossil hunter. Tired of it all. Shropshire Lass
Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social Prof Emerita | History female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | #HistoryofExperience | Fellow @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism | Visiting Full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social & Visiting Researcher @utu.fi
Dan @fraternalwriter.bsky.social Researcher, author, mostly UK & 18th-20thC social history especially friendly societies, banners, the Open University, the Labour Party and the history of local history. Escapes through running.
Mariam Yamin @mariamyamin.bsky.social Senior Archivist at University of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives
Sarah C. Dunstan @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social Historian of 20thC French & US Empire| Human rights, Citizenship, Race & Gender at the University of Glasgow
Author of Race, Rights and Reform: Black Activism in the French Empire and the United States from World War I to the Cold War (CUP, 2021).- N Nic W @nykohler.bsky.social
David Gordon Scott @david-scott71.bsky.social Socialist and Abolitionist.
Works at Open University.
Chair of the Weavers Uprising Bicentennial Committee
Seth Dresden Wheeler @sethnotes.bsky.social Researching for MayDay Rooms (London) & the Working Class Movement Library (Salford)
Publishing with https://agitpress.net/
Experimental politics & culture
At war with the planetary work machine since 1974 ☭
Slowly writing a book about the ‘Global 1977’
Freddy Foks @freddyfoks.bsky.social 'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-freddy-foks
CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity @ethnicityuk.bsky.social Researching racism, anti-racism and ethnic, racial and religious inequalities.
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/codemcr
Website: http://www.ethnicity.ac.uk
Jennie @unabridgedopinions.com Student success w/ a HigherEd perspective. Associate Director T&L & Student Success at UoM Library & Academic Lead for Student Success. Constantly tilting at windmills. Often seen reading, riding & running about. NTF/CATE/PFHEA, data and pedagogy obsessed
Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social The IRR's online news service on anti-racism & social justice issues in UK & Europe.
Our journal is Race & Class ▶ https://bit.ly/raceandclass
Donate to the IRR ▶ http://irr.org.uk/donate
For more info ▶ https://linktr.ee/instituteracerelations
Waqas Tufail @waqastufail.bsky.social Reader in Criminology. Research policing, 'race'/anti-racism, Islamophobia. Chasing justice, not citations. Personal account, my own views.
Simon Newman @simonatmadison.bsky.social Historian, gardener, cook (not necessarily in that order)
Michael Pierse @michaelpierse.bsky.social Academic at Queen's University Belfast. Irish Studies. Working-class writing. Left politics. Gaeilge. Tweets own opinions. RTs not endorsements.
Panikos Panayi @profpanayi.bsky.social Professor of European History at De Montfort University
https://www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/academic-staff/art-design-humanities/panikos-panayi/panikos-panayi.aspx
Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social Lecturer in Early Modern History | Seventeenth Century, Colonialism, Asia, Caribbean | ‘dazzling’ - BBC History | tired dad | Stephen King aficionado | academia’s longest commute | Sussex coast | writing my third book: Where the Manchineel Trees Grow