The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust funded project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 30,000 wills.
Visit our website: https://sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultureofwills/
Cristina Moreno Lozano @crinamoreno.bsky.social Research Fellow @ Medicine Without Doctors project | CBSS, University of Edinburgh | STS scholar; researching hospitals, healthcare professions, collective healthcare, AMR & antibiotics, AI & digital health systems | https://cmorenolozano.wordpress.com/
Alex McHugh @alexandreamchugh.bsky.social PhD - Researching public health in the early modern West Midlands - University of Birmingham
UK Archive Sector Leadership @uknatarcsector.bsky.social Archive Sector Leadership department at The National Archives UK. We support archives of all types and sizes across England.
Find out more about the support we offer: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/archives-sector/
Louvain Rees ⚰️ @hellohistoria.bsky.social Award-winning Historian & Genealogist ✍️🏻
Death, Wales and Psychiatry 💀
Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠
🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚
📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her
🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
Dr Cat Beck @catsbeck.bsky.social Historian of madness and disability among seafarers in the long 18th Century
Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social Historian of bugs & drugs: interested in #microbes #antibiotics #vaccines #phages; author of: Pyrrhic Progress (2020), Bearing Witness (2021), Typhoid (2022), Fear & Fever (2024) - Associate Professor INSERM (CERMES3, Paris): https://www.bugsdrugs.org/
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
Helena C. Aeberli @helenaaeberli.bsky.social Writer and researcher. DPhil @ Oxford researching early modern eating disorders. Funded by AHRC & Clarendon Scholarships. Writing in Tribune, LARB, London Mag, History Today, etc.
https://www.helenaaeberli.co.uk
Faye Getz 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇳🇱🇨🇦 @fayway.bsky.social Ill-tempered Auntie now haunting EG, Rhode Island. Wrote books etc. on history of science/medicine, mostly medieval. Always in trouble for something. Old. Hangs with prof who writes lots on global capitalism and science. Multinational. F’ing bitch.
Steph Wright @estefwright.bsky.social Historian of modern Spain in Lancaster. Interests: gender, sexual violence, #dishist, mental health, medical humanities. Currently working on the history of thalidomide in Spain.
Tuomas Pernu @tuomaspernu.bsky.social PhD and all that. Lecturer in Philosophy of Science and Research Ethics at the University of Eastern Finland (UEF). Some things I'm responsible for:
http://www.tuomaspernu.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)
Manon C Williams @manoncwilliams.bsky.social Historian of health and medicine in the 18th and 19th c. maritime world || Pearsall Early Career Fellow in Naval and Maritime History @ the Institute for Historical Research, London
Teresa Göltl @teresagoeltl.bsky.social PhD Candidate @UniHeidelberg/EHESS Paris on Slavery, Medical & Legal History 🌎 Part of the ERC-project "Fever - Global Histories of (a) Disease"
Robert Piggott @rpiggott.bsky.social Historian. Researching a disparate mix of voluntary action, medical, religious, and media histories in modern Britain.
Fever: Global Histories of (a) Disease @feverprojecthd.bsky.social The ERC project lead by Stefanie Gänger, with Yijie Huang, Teresa Göltl, Jenny Sure, and Lea Trigilia at Heidelberg University explores the history of fever in societies within or tied to the Atlantic World.
https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/fever-project
Kate Law @drkatelaw.bsky.social Historian|Intersectional Feminist|Southern Africa| Decolonisation|Depo-Provera|Reproductive Justice |Grieving, fighting, and looking for the light.
Pauline Mortas @paulinemortas.bsky.social PhD in History. Sexuality, gender, contraception, sex market (19th-20th centuries, France). Postdoctoral researcher @Cermes3. Current research: history of vaginismus.
Dr Eleanor Shaw @eleanorshaw.bsky.social Historian of medicine (ish). Parent of small monsters. Enthusiastic Yorkshirewoman in Sheffield. Early Career Fellow on Covid Commemoration oral history at the British Library.
Sonia Zakrzewski @soniaz.bsky.social FSA Professor of Bioarchaeology at @unisouthampton.bsky.social, biological anthropology, archaeology, paleopathology... Archaeological dead bodies, identity, disability. Ancient Egypt, medieval Spain, Saxons in England.
Elizabeth Austin @elaustin.bsky.social Social and medical historian | pt PhD 16thC English medicine, networks and recipes. Tudor living history with Linstock and Pledget and garden enthusiast.
John Nott @jdnott.bsky.social Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
Cihan Şimşek @cihantarih.bsky.social Historian; Late Antiquity (Rome & Global) | Medieval mounted pastoral nomads | Theories of political ecumene | Political etiquette | Digital & computational humanities | Renaissance medicine. Mostly academic posts.
Megan Graham @meggraham9.bsky.social Histories of race, resistance and health activism in 20thC Australia • History PhD at the University of Leeds • prev. Visiting Researcher at Weill Cornell Medicine (US) & NCB at ANU (Aus)
Alex Ward @alexandra-ward.bsky.social Postgraduate Researcher @ University of Leeds. Interested in Britain’s Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 'Liberated Africans', St Helena, Migration and Atlantic History. Currently teaching 'Global Empires'.
UK Disability History and Heritage Hub @ukdishisthub.bsky.social UKDHHH is a network to allow those interested in Disabled, Neurodiverse, & D/deaf histories, from the ancient world to the modern era, to connect & collaborate. We are open to researchers, archivists, museum professionals, activists & everyone in-between.
Body in History Network, University of Oxford @bodyinhistoryox.bsky.social The Body in History Network at @ox.ac.uk brings together researchers from across disciplines who are interested in the history, representation, and experience of the human body and its environments.
https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/the-body-in-history-network
GREATLEAP COST Action @thegreatleap22116.bsky.social Multidisciplinary approach from a historical perspective to understand the roots and drivers of health inequalities.
https://greatleap.eu/
Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social Official BlueSky account of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Fostering interest in all things #churchhistory.
Ciara Nic Ionnraic PhD #Health #Research #SciComms @chendirl.bsky.social #Stillbirth #Perinatal #DeathStudies | #Grief #Bereavement | #Qualitative #SocialScience #Skystorian #Interdisciplinary | #EuroHistHealth Science Officer | #TCD #ASDS #IAPH #IHS #RHS #HSTM | #HistMed #History #MedHum #Maternity #Cillíní #DigitalHumanities
Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social Historian of science & medicine and writer @ Johns Hopkins & Berkeley. Biography of James Watson expected fall '27 from Basic Books. Also rock climbing, roots music, tattoos, dogs, humor. My opinions are his –>
AMS Healthcare @amshealthcare.ca AMS advances innovative healthcare with compassion at its core.
Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales.
Visiting fellow at the Open University.
Obsessed with inquests.
Joseph Price @joseph-price.bsky.social PhD student at the University of Warwick | Centre for the History of Medicine, Science & Technology | Histories of Sexual Health at University in Postwar England
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/eportfolios/u2282164/
Nikolaos Papadogiannis @npapadogian.bsky.social Dad; Senior Lecturer in European History, University of Stirling; UKRI Future Leaders Fellow studying the history of global HIV activism; writes in personal capacity
RCP museum @rcpmuseum.bsky.social The Royal College of Physicians museum, heritage library, archive & garden in Regent's Park | History, medicine, art & modernist architecture | Exhibitions & events
TORCH The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities @torchoxford2013.bsky.social TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) is a hub for intellectual collaboration and cross-disciplinary research projects, and is part of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford. 
Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social Cambridge University Library
Graham Mooney @histgeoghealth.bsky.social Historian of public health at Johns Hopkins University. Manc. Homebrew. Native American plants. Bees. Geography.
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim @yoelitlalim.bsky.social
Eurasian transmissions of knowledge
MIT Global Humanities
https://comparativeglobalhumanities.mit.edu/pillars/healing-arts-and-human-well-being/
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/reorienting-histories-of-medicine-9781472512574/
The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk A proud Manchester institution with teaching, research and social responsibility at the heart of everything we do. 
UK Association for the History of Nursing @ukahn.bsky.social The UK Association for the History of Nursing (UKAHN) promotes the development and advancement of #histnursing through scholarly work and outreach. https://ukahn.org/ Find our yearly journal at https://bulletin.ukahn.org/ 
Oxford Social Sciences Division @socsci.ox.ac.uk We bring together the outstanding departments, faculties and schools that make up the University of Oxford's Social Sciences Division. 
LSHTM Library, Archive & Open Research Services @lshtm-laors.bsky.social Library, Archive & Open Research Services @LSHTM.bsky.social - supporting discovery, preserving history, and promoting open access & open science, including LSHTM Press. Sharing collections, insights & updates from our community.
Dr Fabiola Creed @fabiolacreed.bsky.social Health Hist:
•Gambling sports sponsorship www.kickingthehabit.uk
•Tanning/beauty/fitness industry
•Maternal mental illness
•Gazette editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social
📙 Sunbed: Tanning Culture: http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350450363
📚 fabiolacreed.com
Matthew Perkins-McVey @mperkinsmcvey.bsky.social Assistant Professor • History and Philosophy of Science, Intoxication, Medicine, Psych and Pharma, specializing in 19th/early-20th century Germany • Book "Intoxicated Ways of Knowing" out at U. Chicago Press
Lauren Kassell @laurenkassell.bsky.social Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
SAHMS @histmedsouth.bsky.social Southern Association for the History of Science and Medicine (SAHMS) is a professional organization founded in 1999 to further the mission of Professor L. M. Barnett (University of South Mississippi) to promote #histsci #histmed #histpsych #histSTM
Dr Kat Rawling @katrawling.bsky.social Historian of medical photography, medicine, modern British social and cultural history. Lecturer in nineteenth century British history (Uni of Leeds).
Marissa Diaz @marissadiaz.bsky.social Did my post-doc @ Washington State University 🇺🇸 LLM Int'l Law in 🇧🇪 PhD completed in 🇨🇭 with data collection in 🇮🇪 Focusing on access to end of life care for people with intellectual/developmental disabilities. Qualitative methods. Views are my own.
Sarah Arens @saraharens.bsky.social Far-flung euro-🇩🇿 researching and teaching (hi)stories of science, animals, empire, and antifascist movements (FR and BEL) | my own views 🌱 | no dms
Marek Eby @marekeby.bsky.social Epidemics, environments, and state power in the USSR. Currently: Research Fellow in Global Health History at the University of Leeds. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. PhD from New York University (2025)
Marie VC, PhD @marievc.eurosky.social Postdoctoral Researcher (elle/she) • Internet & Cultural Studies • Legal Knowledge & Environmental Law • Social & Climate Justice • Brussels Sprouts Appreciation Society • Arts & Crafts • Gardening • Sailing
FR/EN (Belgium/Luxembourg)
Nahyan Fancy @fancynahyan.bsky.social Professor; University of Exeter; Historian of Science and Medicine in Premodern Islamic Societies; Love Urdu poetry
Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️
Premodern Healthscaping @prosanitate.bsky.social We study public & environmental health in the pre-industrial world(s) from multiple disciplines. Our current foci are miners, pilgrims, courts & cities. Share your work on community prophylactics with us: https://premodernhealthscaping.hcommons.org/?p=1403
Casebooks Project @hpscasebooks.bsky.social A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology
Wellcome Collection @wellcomecollection.bsky.social A free museum and library in London and online. Explore the past, present and future of health with us.
wellcomecollection.org
Joanna Bourke @joannabourke.bsky.social Historian curious about violence, the emotions, and what it means to be human. Currently writing a book on Women and Wine! See joannabourke.com
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
Fred Cooper @histloneliness.bsky.social Historian of Medicine. Loneliness, epistemic injustice, critical medical humanities. SRA on the Wellcome-funded Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare project (EPIC), University of Bristol Law School.
Dr Hannah Blythe @hanblythe.bsky.social Health humanities and history of mental health, psychology, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
Currently at Leeds, formerly LSHTM and Cambridge. Affiliated at Birkbeck.
European Medical Journal @emjreviews.com #1 open access destination for healthcare professionals globally.
🔗 emjreviews.com
Royal Society of Medicine @roysocmed.bsky.social The Royal Society of Medicine is a leading provider of continuing learning to healthcare professionals. Our vision: better healthcare for better lives.
Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social Historian. Writer. Public & global health, rights, internationalism, migration, citizenship & statelessness, Modern & Eastern Europe. Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut, Department of History and Human Rights Institute. Views my own.
Krittapak Ngamvaseenont @ngamvaseenont.bsky.social PhD student at CHSTM, University of Manchester | Assistant Professor of History at Chiang Mai University #histmed
@chstmphds.bsky.social @chstmphds.bsky.social 
Elif Bengüsu Arık @elifbengusuarik.bsky.social PhD Researcher in History @eui-eu.bsky.social
History of medicine/ophthalmology, history of immigration, Ottoman.
History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Dr Felicity McGeown @fmcgeown.bsky.social Anthropologist, Historian and Researcher, Consultant with Disabled Students UK, Project Officer with Pride Cymru for the Stronger Together Project
Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org Discover new research from across the sciences and highlights from the world's longest-running journal archive. Part of @royalsociety.org royalsociety.org/journals
Alexia Moncrieff @historynerdess.bsky.social Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
Young Historians Project @younghistorians.bsky.social Encouraging the development of young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain | #HlfSupported #EachOneTeachOne✊🏿
The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
LGBTQ+ History Association @lgbtqhistorya.bsky.social The LGBTQ+ History Association (formally the Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History) founded in 1979, is an affiliate of the American Historical Association. Learn more at clgbthistory.org
Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure @camunicampop.bsky.social Interdisciplinary research group at the University of Cambridge.
https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/
Follow our blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
History & Policy @historyandpolicy.bsky.social We publish high-quality historical research freely accessible online and create opportunities for historians, policy makers and journalists to connect and learn from each other.
Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social SRS, the main academic organisation in UK & Ireland dedicated to the promotion of the study of the Renaissance. Hatched in 1967. 🐥 🔥 🐣 🐦🔥 https://rensoc.org.uk/
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
The Society of Antiquaries of London @antiquaries.bsky.social In the heart of London, we are the centre of antiquarian learning, discovery & community. As a royal learned society, our Fellows have been inspiring scholarship, debate & research for over 300 years. Also own Kelmscott Manor, past home of William Morris.
History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
You can find us at other places, here: https://linktr.ee/historyofparliament
Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
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/
Elsa Richardson @ecrichardson.bsky.social Health historian at the University of Strathclyde, author of 'Rumbles: A Curious History of the Gut (Wellcome/Profile/Pegasus, 2024) and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare (CSHHH).
Karin Sennefelt @karinsennefelt.bsky.social Bodies, vapours, spirits and dissent in early modernity | Professor @Stockholms_univ
Voices of Motherhood @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Kicking the Habit @kthabitproject.bsky.social The project page for Kicking the Habit: Historicising 'Addictive' Sport Sponsorship in Britain, 1965-2025. Wellcome Trust Funded. Runs 2024-30 @uniofnottingham.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Barry Doyle @profbarrydoyle.bsky.social Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running!
Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
Steve Sturdy @stevesturdy.bsky.social History of biomedicine. Genes and genomes. Value in/of healthcare.
European Association for the History of Medicine and Health @eahmh.bsky.social We foster research on issues concerning health and medicine in Europe and the world.
Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore @barbarasplendor.bsky.social Histories of knowledge, medicine, pharmacy, science and fungi! Author of The State Drug. Theriac, Pharmacy and Politics in Early Modern Italy (HUP 2025). Usually early modernist. Marie Curie Fellow at Bologna and Lausanne. Yale PhD
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft @maxplanck.de Official account of the Max Planck Society. Devoted to basic #research in #physics #astronomy #chemistry #biology #earthsciences #materialscience #mathematics #socialsciences and the #humanities; Imprint: https://www.mpg.de/imprint
Lakshmi Krishnan, MD, PhD @thelakshmik.bsky.social Doctor, Writer @Georgetown | Director @GUMedHum | ✍🏽 Book on Diagnosis & Detection | 🦋 #medhum #histmed #healthequity
http://www.lakshmi-krishnan.com
Institute of the History of Medicine at JHU @histmedjhu.bsky.social History of medicine, disease, and the health sciences & their relation to society. Historical perspectives on contemporary health issues.
laura cowley @lauracowley.bsky.social Wellcome PhD student at Birkbeck, University of London, History of Art. Researching visual humour and jokes from the UK disability arts movement | Visual medical humanities and histories of disability | She/her | remembering how to be Online