Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social PhD in food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies 🥔
Niamh Coffey @niamhcoffey.bsky.social Academic Publishing. PhD in Irish Republican women's activism in Britain.
Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
Ruairí Cullen @ruairicullen.bsky.social HE policy @ The British Academy.
Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social Director of the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as a Director at the UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Fellow at Bellagio, Notre Dame & Bosch. Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Writing a new book.
Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social Social historian. Devoted to archives, including their social histories. Easily distracted by women's history, local politics (Oceania), and methodologies.
TLDR: Geek.
www.colourfulhistories.com.au
ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social Justice Correspondent for The Nation Magazine. Author of Allow Me to Retort and Bad Law.
Class: PLD. Alignment: Neutral Good
Str:12 Dex:8 Con:15 Int:13 Wis:10 Char:14 Author: Allow Me To Retort
Cathal Malone @cathalmalone.bsky.social Corkonian-in-exile in the Pale. Lawyer. Liúdramán. He/him.
HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social History Lab is the UK's national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. https://linktr.ee/ihrhistorylab
@ihr.bsky.social
Sophia Lambert @sophialambert100.bsky.social PhD student and budding historian of Anglo-Jewish history; Leeds history; cemeteries; social, urban and spatial history; writer; museums. LBU alumni.
Shane Lynn @shane-lynn.bsky.social Historian of the global Irish diaspora. Assistant Professor, McMaster University.
Author, Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War (NYU Press, 2025)
https://experts.mcmaster.ca/people/lynns2
Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social Anarchist. Host of Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff. Co-owner of Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness. Latest book is The Immortal Choir Holds Every Voice. she/they
emma short @emmashort.bsky.social thinking about hotels, modernism, and the environment. not necessarily at the same time.
assistant professor of modern & contemporary literature at durham university.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-22129-4
IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies: a home for innovative interdisciplinary research from the medieval to the early modern in a World Heritage Site.
@mellonmigration.bsky.social @mellonmigration.bsky.social Specialist expertise in the story of the migration of the peoples of the island of Ireland across the globe.
https://linktr.ee/MellonCentreMigrationStudies
Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social A useless humanist with a love for art, astronomy, history, literature, science, human rights and social justice. I hate oppression.
https://linktr.ee/raimokangasniemi
Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social Writer, actor, audiobook narrator, notorious tryhard
Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social
Women's Aid Ireland @womensaidireland.bsky.social Leading national organisation, working to prevent and address the impact of domestic violence and abuse. 24hr National Freephone Helpline 1800341900 www.womensaid.ie. RCN: 20012045
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.
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
Jon Coburn @joncoburn.bsky.social Mediocre historian. University of Lincoln, UK
| US history | activism | protest suicide | information literacy |
@ursulabyrne.bsky.social @ursulabyrne.bsky.social
Trevor Wiley @mearcsteppende.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston College dissertating on the environment, community, and landscape on the 4th-8th century Forth, Clyde, and Tay in Scotland. Originally from Appalachia.
Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social Catholic theologian, M.Div. Theology Department at DePaul College Prep, Chronicler of all things Catholic. Pope Leo XIV. Vatican analyst.
Lauren Barbato @laurenbarbato.bsky.social PhD candidate (ABD) in religion, Temple University | Gender studies professor, U of Delaware | fiction writer | childless cat lady 🐈⬛ | currently researching: abortion, the US Catholic Church & lay activism ✨
www.laurenbarbato.com
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Síle Ní Mhurchú @silenimhurchu.bsky.social Léachtóir sinsearach i Roinn na Nua-Ghaeilge, Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh. An Fhiannaíocht. Na Dánta Grá. Lámhscríbhinní na Gaeilge. Liomsa na tuairimí seo!
Sophia Grene @sophiagrene.bsky.social Too tired to do much, but interested in so many things.
PAT FINUCANE CENTRE @finucanecentre.bsky.social Offices in Derry, Belfast & Armagh. Caseworker in Dublin. Providing legacy advocacy support to bereaved families. Exhibitions available on Legacy of Colonialism (15 pop ups). Also available a mobile video exhibit w/family interviews on Brit state impunity.
Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social Geographer, historian.
Jack Russell @jackru.bsky.social Londoner in Norn Iron | Data Communicator | Humanist | Dad of girls | Glastonbury Pilgrim | Strange Loop | Runner | ENTP
Author of @believethedata.org
Co-founder of @pfie.bsky.social
Victor Kattan @victorkattan.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Public International Law @UoN | formerly @NUS | member @TGC | editorial board @AsianJIL | International Law, International Criminal Law, Law of Armed Conflict, History of International Law
ORCID: 0000-0001-5109-5933
Nicholas Yenson 朱偉仲 @nicholasyenson.bsky.social actor, former 🇮🇪 civil servant
🏳️🌈 🗽 👨🏼🤝👨🏻
he/him • 他 • sé/é
En • 中文 • Ga
Black Lives Matter
Opinions are mine alone. You can’t have them.
www.nicholasyenson.com
Bethany @bmcgx.bsky.social phd candidate at UVa
stupid opinions sadly mine
📍dc + cville
Úna-Minh's ✨ Open to Work ✨ @unaminh.bsky.social 🌱 IrishAsian Forager & Author
🗣️ Irish Language Creator. Artist.
📚 Writing Books. Writing for Games
⚔️ Game Master. Resident Bisexual. TTRPGer.
Award-Winning Game Dev https://unaminh.itch.io/
Creative Director - ORGANIC MATTERS
Writer - Good Folk Café
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
Claire E. Aubin @ceaubin.com "A scholar and a hater" - The Guardian
◦ historian of really bad guys @ Yale
◦ host, This Guy Sucked
◦ author, THE HOMELAND (coming summer 2027) & FALSE IDOLS (2028)
all opinions my own.
https://www.ceaubin.com
https://thisguysucked.com
Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social TV critic, Greenlit podcast creator/host, still trying to write a book
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
Dr. Kelly Plante @drkellyplante.bsky.social Ann Arbor-based writer. PhD in literature, history of the press, auto/biographical writing. Editor, https://bsky.app/profile/abojournal.bsky.social.
Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social Writer
unamullally.com
www.sliverpress.com
Tom Lordan @tomlordan.bsky.social Irish Art Critic | The Irish Times, Frieze, Paper Visual Art | Philosophy & Aesthetics - Filosofia y Estética - Philosophie & Ästhetik
tomlordan.com
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
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
Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk Not even the most famous person in my bedroom. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social Anthropologist, author, dad. Order purely alphabetical
Claire Boardman @claireboardman.bsky.social People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; Data & Design. PhD - WIP. Views own. Digital Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisory Board: @goodorgcic.bsky.social Director/Trustee: @archscot.bsky.social (she/her)
National Trust Research @researchnt.bsky.social News, stories, opportunities, and occasional memes from the National Trust's Research Team. You're welcome to contact us at research@nationaltrust.org.uk.
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
Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte @turnbulldugarte.com [trying to spend less time on social media]
#ihadablackdog
https://youtu.be/XiCrniLQGYc?si=q-gQTNXfScmgtl4k
Patrick WJ Thompson @patrickwjthompson.bsky.social Researcher at Queen's University Belfast | Interested in civil rights, social movements, Irish-British relations | All views my own
Jonathan Willis @drjpw.bsky.social Associate Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Birmingham (UK): English Reformation; music; Decalogue; sin & salvation; puritans; parishes; emotion; archives; material culture. Gay husband & cat dad; choral singer; aspiring pianist; nerd.
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
@eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social
Jess Bates @jessicabates.bsky.social Research on education, libraries & information. Course Director, Library & Information Mgmt at Ulster (online course). Rathlin Island resident. Coastguard volunteer. Wife and mum.
Sacha Coward @sachacoward.bsky.social LGBTQ+ history dude (He/Him) 🌈 Research, Tours & Escape Rooms. Mermaid lover. Lifts heavy things for attention.
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
David Ho @davidho.bsky.social Climate scientist; ocean carbon cycle and climate solutions. Professor @soest.hawaii.edu, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; Visiting Faculty, Arizona State University. https://linktr.ee/david_ho
Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social Historian of culture & ideas | hows, whys, & effects of writing & making c18th+ | now: political activism's role in framing practice; ethics of reimagining historical homicides | @york.ac.uk, @ihr.bsky.social, & in the wild | shop window 👉 sarahwride.co.uk
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/
Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com Independent journalist, SnapStream brand ambassador, and publisher of the Public Notice newsletter https://www.publicnotice.co/subscribe
Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social Co-director: https://www.ucc.ie/en/future-humanities/radicalhumanitieslaboratory/
DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social Snr. Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Writes poetry & short fiction.
Gwenola Sueur @gwenolasueur.bsky.social Doctorante en sociologie | Historienne de formation | Université de Bretagne Occidentale | Parcours de mères, violence conjugale, territoires ruraux
https://gwenolasueur.wordpress.com
📩 gwenola.sueur@gmail.com
Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social Politics of inequality, population health, social policy, methods (esp qual), Europe, teaching & learning. S2/A1, dog lover, cook. ME/CFS hEDS MCAS PsA.
Getting Better is open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/getting-better
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online cyberbullying elon musk since 2015, author of "ludicrous: the unvarnished story of tesla motors" (2019) and "elon take the wheel" (dec 2026, preorders now open), cohost of the autonocast, program director for the ride ai summit, occasional shark/frog
Shane Darcy @shanedarcy.bsky.social Professor, Irish Centre for Human Rights, School of Law, University of Galway.
International law, armed conflict, accountability, business and human rights.
Gwendal Piégais @gwendalpiegais.bsky.social Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Russian Empire history at ULB #Brussels
Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, 1917-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
Catholic Record Society @catholicrs.bsky.social Founded in 1904, CRS promotes the study of Catholicism in Britain and beyond. https://www.crs.org.uk/
Sally Hayden @sallyhayd.bsky.social Journalist etc. Currently Irish Times correspondent in Beirut/Damascus & author of ‘My Fourth Time, We Drowned’ (Orwell Prize, Terzani Prize, Inge Feltrinelli Prize, Michel Deon Prize, Irish Book of the Year) & new book 'This is Also a Love Story'.
Catherine Duigan @cduigan.bsky.social Environmental consultant, researcher & non-fiction writer; water & nature; heritage & natural history; women in science; biographer of Dr. Kathleen Carpenter; Ireland & Wales connections; accepts commissions.
https://catherineduigan.co.uk/
Gráinne Knox Art @grainneknoxart.bsky.social Irish illustrator focusing on Feminism, Fermanagh and Fairy Tales
Check out my new website and sign up for the newsletter!
www.GrainneKnoxArt.com
For Prints head to Etsy:
https://grainneknoxart.etsy.com
MAAH Stone Book Award @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social An annual $50,000 winning prize and two $10,000 finalist prizes for outstanding adult non-fiction books focusing on African American history or culture.
Jennifer Ruth @jenniferruth.bsky.social Professor (views my own - not my institution's), co-editor and co-author of "The Right to Learn" and "It's Not Free Speech," and director, with Jan Haaken, of the documentary "The Palestine Exception: What's at Stake in the Campus Protests?" Portland, OR
Netpol @netpol.org Network for Police Monitoring monitors and resists excessive, discriminatory and violent policing in England, Wales and Scotland
https://linktr.ee/netpol
Secure 📩: NetpolAdmin@protonmail.com
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde, researching Irish women and interwar anti-communism. Monograph, Revolutionary Connections (OUP, 2026)
Emma Murphy @emmamurphy.bsky.social Assistant professor, Keough School, University of Notre Dame. Researching transitional justice, agonistic peace, gender, identity, politics of divided societies. she/her
Seán Ó Hoireabhárd @hoireabhard.bsky.social Historian of Medieval Ireland
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Dr Robyn Atcheson @robyninpink.bsky.social Historian & history communicator - modern, social, medical, women's & Irish.
Feminist. Headstrong, obstinate girl.
Probably wearing pink.
Shiva Balaghi @sbalaghi.bsky.social cultural historian of the Middle East
Paul Barber @pbarber.github.io Data/software/guitars/dad jokes
https://pbarber.github.io
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Abigail Gaines @abigailgaines.bsky.social Park Charity Manager @rowntreepark.bsky.social & ‘Make Space York’ lead (winner of ‘best initiative to increase park use by women & girls’ GreenFlag Award 2023-24). Associate @makespaceforgirls.bsky.social
Exp. secondary school & sixth form leadership
Susannah Walker @susannahwalker.bsky.social Author + campaigner for gender equality and safety in public space + post-war graphics + other stuff.
Rants about stately homes here:
https://susannahwalker.substack.com
Co-founder of @makespaceforgirls and formerly @QuadRoyal
Lucy Collins @lcollins232.bsky.social Reader. Writer. Not doing much Arithmetic. Associate Professor #UCD.
Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian lit, and 19th century newspapers.
New book(s) coming soon, including Cambridge Companion to True Crime.
Rep: Aevitas
Holly Fur @hollyfur.bsky.social Lapsed Museum person now in the world of Film Education.
Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own
Dublin City Libraries @dublincitylibs.bsky.social Dublin City Libraries & Archives. libraries@dublincity.ie +353 12224800.
Newsletter: https://bit.ly/DCL-newsletter-sign-up SM Policy: http://dcpla.ie/sm-policy
https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/libraries
Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social 1st gen academic from Sligo/Donegal, now in Vancouver. Does research on obscure topics. Extremely fond of Cicero.
She/her nó sí/í
Opinions my own.
siobhanmcelduff.com
Local History Hub @localhistoryhub.bsky.social Teacher-led, grassroots, and rooted in belonging.
A grassroots movement sharing ideas, stories & local history.
Join us: localhistoryhub.org.uk
Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield Archives @ssjs-archives.bsky.social Collecting, organizing, preserving and making accessible the records of the history, charism, missions and ministries of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Springfield (Massachusetts), including SSJ Rutland, Vermont and SSJ Fall River, Massachusetts.
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
Christabel Scaife @christabelscaife.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies and Irish Studies @livunipress.bsky.social
Alan Magee @alanmagee.bsky.social Contemporary Artist - Dublin / London. He/Him, Lecturer, PhD researcher at TU Dublin, Represented by Castor, London. Exploring labour & technology. www.alan-magee.com
Stephen Scarth @stephenscarth.bsky.social Archivist, Historian, Family History Enthusiast, Media Contributor, Cardplayer, Magician, Explorer, Adventurer, Stargazer & other stuff. Views my own.