INDY-HIST @indy-hist.bsky.social Independent Historians Working Group
. . . a collaboration between independent historians for mutual support.
www.bit.ly/INDY_HIST
Rosa Lange (she/her) @rosalange.bsky.social History, Political Thought and (Visual) Narration, PhD researcher at
@eui-eu.bsky.social
Jayne Persian @drjpersian.bsky.social Historian. mainly post-WW2 displaced persons. migration. dabbles in the far right.
Books: Fascists in Exile; Beautiful Balts. Co-editor: Histories of Fascism & Anti-Fascism in Australia.
The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Promoting world-leading research using the unique special collections of The University of Manchester Library.
Open to visitors Wednesday-Saturday, 10am-5pm
Corinne Fowler @corinnefowler.bsky.social Prof. of Colonialism & Heritage @ University of Leicester UK.
Penguin author of Our Island Stories. 10 Walks through Rural Britain & its Hidden History of Empire (2024) repd by. Emma Bal @ Madeleine Milburn agency.
@OnlyinBirmingham podcast
On Substack
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/
Karl Ittmann @kittmann.bsky.social Historian of Britain and the British Empire.
Author of Fuelling Empire: The British Imperial Oil Complex 1896-1945 published by Oxford University Press June 2025.
Emeritus Professor of History, University of Houston.
Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social Professor of English & Scottish Literature, Head of School, Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.
Research working-class literature & Romantic-period cultures.
Editor, John Clare Society Journal.
Adam Bridgen @adambridgen.bsky.social Studies working-class poetry and letters from 1650-1850, in context of empire and slavery, land politics, ecology, and the non-human world.
-- Now https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/adam-j-bridgen/
-- Next: international fellow @lias1.bsky.social
Joe Redmayne @joeredmayne.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University
James Phillips @jjphillips94.bsky.social Historian of political cultures and the labour movement. PhD from Cardiff University on political traditions in Monmouthshire, 1918-29. Gwent Archives. Llafur Events. LFC, always #JFT97
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/
Gregory Billam @gregorybillam.bsky.social Modern British Historian | PhD in British and Australian Communism | Articles and Book Reviews in Contemporary British History, Labour History Review, Labour History, and Twentieth Century Communism | Web and Social Media Editor @sslh.bsky.social
Baroness Glenys Thornton @glenyst.bsky.social Former Women & Equalities and Health Minister and CEO Young Foundation. Humanist, Yorkshirewoman & Feminist.
Irish Association of Professional Historians #IAPH #Skystorians @iaphistorians.bsky.social The IAPH is the organisation for professional & graduate historians within and outside the academy. The #IAPH directory lists #historians and their related subject areas #Skystorians #History #AcademicSky #Speirgorm #Ireland #Research
North West Labour History Society @nwlh.bsky.social https://www.nwlh.org.uk/
@leedspeopleschoir.bsky.social @leedspeopleschoir.bsky.social 
Uni of Sheffield Special Collections, Heritage and Archives SCHA @uoscollections.bsky.social 🎪National Fairground and Circus Archive
📜Special Collections and Archives
🖼️University Heritage Collection
📚University Archives
tinyurl.com/unisheffSCHA
Zuzubee Huidrom @zuzubeeh.bsky.social PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh/Gender, war, economic and social history
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Izzy Thomas @izzygthomas.bsky.social Ncl PhD candidate in music venues and labour history. Musician of many trades, master of none. Occasional journalist and critic.
Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social An archive of everyday life, thought and feeling in the UK. Based at The Keep in East Sussex. Find out more at massobs.org.uk
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@ijhs.bsky.social @ijhs.bsky.social 
Framework Knitters Museum, Ruddington, Nottinghamshire @frameworkknitters.bsky.social We are a unique surviving example of a 19th century framework knitters’ yard, and still demonstrating this endangered craft.
Plus exhibitions, craft workshops, group visits, performances and more.
www.frameworkknittersmuseum.org.uk
Our Criminal Past @ourcriminalpast.bsky.social Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
Laura C Forster @lauracforster.bsky.social Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historyworkshop.org.uk | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', OUP https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', Pluto Press https://shorturl.at/f2nRs | now writing a history of (bird) egg collecting in Britain
Northumbria History @northumbriahistory.bsky.social History at Northumbria University combines quality teaching with a vibrant research culture. #TakeOnYesterday
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Sarah Hellawell @sarahhellawell.bsky.social Historian
A lost academic
Research on British women's history and transnational activism.
Writing a book on British women in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Currently on 👶🤱leave
Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social List of *online* and *open access* collections of historical documents relating to radical history (broadly defined). Nearly 1000 collections from around the world listed (and always looking for more).
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
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/
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
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
Liam Byrne @liamliamliam1234.bsky.social Labor historian. Political biographer. Star Wars prequels admirer. Author of 'Becoming John Curtin and James Scullin'. My substack "Maintain Your Rage" focuses on Australian political history: https://byrnel.substack.com/
Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editors: @jasminefolz.bsky.social
@letha-b.bsky.social @valuequestion.bsky.social
Wakefield Historical Society UK @wfdhistsoc.bsky.social Our Society aims to promote knowledge of the past and preservation of local heritage in Wakefield and beyond
Journal of Industrial Relations (A Sage journal) @jirjournal.bsky.social An ISI-ranked, peer-reviewed international journal administered by the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association (ALERA)
📎 https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JIR
#industrialrelations
Dr James Peate @jamesepeate.bsky.social Social/Cultural Historian.
Press/populism/Romani history.
Views are my own
Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign @orgreavejustice.bsky.social otjc.org.uk
jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social everything for everyone
agitpress.net
Oral History Society @oralhistsoc.bsky.social Founded in 1973, the Oral History Society is dedicated to collecting, preserving and promoting the use of recorded memories. Run by volunteers, the OHS plays a key role in supporting and developing oral history practice in the both the UK and abroad
Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Oral History Network Ireland @oralhistoryie.bsky.social OHNI is an organisation with charitable status that aims to promote oral history in Ireland and to provide a network and training for oral historians.
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.
Natalie Behrends @behrendsn.bsky.social phd candidate in global history, harvard | historian of socialism, nationalism, and migration, 1848-1919
Jessica Cale @dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social Author, historian, and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast. FORBIDDEN FRUIT: THE SECRET, SCANDALOUS HISTORY OF ABORTION AND CONTRACEPTION forthcoming from Putnam. Rep: Helm Literary.
Bloomsbury History @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Publishing the latest research and news on all aspects and periods of history.
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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
Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
Historic Towns Trust @historictownstrust.bsky.social An educational charity working to map the urban histories of 🏴🏴🏴 in partnership with local historians & communities.
Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick
Dr Matt Winfield @mattwinf91.bsky.social Librarian, Currently interested in the History of the Gas Industry, PhD on 18th Century Derby
Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social Conference on Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain at the University of Warwick on 10-11 June 2025 ✨ Email any questions to EarlyModern2025@gmail.com & find us @ https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc/eventsnew/socialidentity
Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social Women's History Scotland exists to promote study and research in women's and gender history, particularly for those working in Scotland or on Scottish themes.
https://womenshistoryscotland.org/
lAwReNcE bLaCk @lawrenceblack.bsky.social https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or the history of where, when and how politics and culture met. Or didn’t. Likes flawed red things.
Laura Beers @fieryparticle.bsky.social Historian. Occasional podcaster. Author of Your Britain; Red Ellen; and Orwell’s Ghosts. Runner. 🤓📚🏃♀️
Agent: David Higham, https://rb.gy/t8twa
https://linktr.ee/lbeers
Manchester Jewish Museum @mcrjewishmuseum.bsky.social A place to experience how we are different, together.🤝
Sharing the stories of Jewish Manchester with the world. 🌍
The London Archives @thelondonarchives.bsky.social The London Archives is a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. Visit today and explore 1000 years of history.
About us - https://www.thelondonarchives.org/
Events - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-london-archives-2913691059 
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
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.
Heritage Quay @heritagequay.bsky.social Archive Service for @huddersfielduni.bsky.social. Home to the archives of @therfl.bsky.social, England Netball, Sound and Music, Labour history, @brassbandsengland.bsky.social and many more
www.heritagequay.org/discover
Community Union @communityunion.bsky.social We are Community. The modern union for a changing world. Promoted by Community Union, 3rd Floor, 67/68 Long Acre, Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, WC2E 9JD
Journal of Global Slavery @journalslavery.bsky.social Promotes the understanding of slavery and post-slavery from comparative, transregional, and/or global perspectives
https://brill.com/view/journals/jgs/jgs-overview.xml
UK Council for Graduate Education @ukcge.bsky.social The representative body for postgraduate education and research. Registered Charity No. 1061495. Website: https://ukcge.ac.uk/ Also on https://www.linkedin.com/company/ukcge/.
Therese Garstenauer @garstenauer.bsky.social Historian, Credential Evaluator, Vienna
International Association of Labour History Institutions @ialhi.bsky.social IALHI brings together archives, libraries, documentation centres, museums and research institutions specializing in the history and theory of the labour and social movements from all over the world. More information: ialhi.org
Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social 💻 Online Courses
📜 Certificate programmes
🕵️♂️ #FamilyHistory
🗺️ #LocalHistory
🌳 #Genealogy
✍️ #DistanceLearning
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Professionally recognised by AGRA @agragenealogy.bsky.social
https://www.pharostutors.com/
How-to History @howtohistory.bsky.social Instruction and information for historians. Into your inbox every month | https://how-to-history.com/ | Edited by Joe Saunders & Anna Cusack
Labour History Girl @labourhistorygirl.bsky.social Posting the good, the bad, and the ugly of Canadian labour history, union activism, and current events. She/her. 👩🏼✈️👩🏿⚕️👩🏽🏭👷🏻♀️👩🏼🔧
Explore Your Archive @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social 
Libraries Gave Us Power @lgupbook.bsky.social Gavin McCann, UNISON E Mids & formerly ISTC (now Community). Hopefully a book will emerge to provide a history of TU education for its members and I will post my findings on here as I go.
Dr Janette Martin @hisjlm.bsky.social Interested in history and heritage especially 'history from below', feminism, books, archives and public history. Big fan of Yorkshire, libraries and academic free speech 📚
Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social Prof Emerita of Design History & public historian FRHistSoc📙Ideal Homes ✍️ history of the kitchen 📺📻rep by Knight Ayton https://bio.site/deborahsuggryan
Disability History Association @disability-history.bsky.social 
LJMU Special Collections & Archives @ljmu-sca.bsky.social Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
https://linktr.ee/ljmu_sca
SHOC VUB @shoc-vub.bsky.social Social History of Capitalism
Research group @VUB Brussels 🇧🇪
https://shoc.research.vub.be/
Knighton Museum @knightonmuseum.bsky.social 🏴Small social history museum just on the Welsh side of the Powys/Radnorshire-Shropshire border. Dementia-friendly and run by volunteers.🏴
These are the views of our curator - as is the slant towards industrial archaeology and cats.
www.knightonmuseum.org
Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social Still waiting for the Great Leap Forward
Dr John Temple @drjohntemple.bsky.social Historian. Housing professional. Lifelong Socialist. Sunderland AFC fanatic. CIVIL discourse only.
Ryan Brown @redpgh.com Dad | DSA | CWA 13000
Pittsburgh left and labor history at redpgh.com
Also: British history, wargaming, hobbies galore
Matthew Roberts @historytrainsman.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History, Sheffield Hallam University. Historian of modern Britain, politics, radicalism, protest, memory, history of emotions
Friends of Lister Lane Cemetery (KAVS) @listerlanecem.bsky.social In collaboration with Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, the Friends maintain this Grade II listed, significant cemetery; the final resting place of some 20,000 individuals. Location: Halifax, England.
https://www.listerlanecemetery.co.uk
Hannah Forsyth 🍉 @hannahforsyth.bsky.social Historian in Oz (history of work, education, capitalism) on unceded Dharug & Gundungurra land. Books = Virtue Capitalists: rise & fall of the professional class (2023) and History of the Modern Australian University (2014). She/her. Views mine. 🍉🍉🍉
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Bernard Donoghue @bernarddonoghue.bsky.social Hello. I’m CEO of Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA) in the UK; Chair Bristol Old Vic Theatre; Chair People’s History Museum; Chair London and South East Regional Board of the National Trust; 🏳️🌈 EU OBE culture ambassador and wanderer.
People's History Museum @phm.org.uk Explore the UK’s national museum of democracy. Open every day (except Tues). Spinningfields, Manchester, M3 3ER.
phm.org.uk
Neil Pye @neilpye72.bsky.social Lecturer in British Politics at the University of Liverpool.
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
Author Amy Licence @amylicence.bsky.social Historian of women’s lives. Prolific author of non-fiction, biographies and novels. Medieval, Tudor and Modern. Word aficionado. Teacher. FRHistS.
Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social Health Humanities and c18/19 British and Irish Literature. Must love dogs.
Most recent book: Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale from Liverpool University Press (2026)
Cambridge University History Faculty @camhistory.bsky.social News from the staff and students of the History Faculty at the University of Cambridge: one of the world’s largest and most diverse history departments.
History at Bristol @uobrishistory.bsky.social Department of History at the University of Bristol. Our research+teaching includes diverse approaches, from medieval to contemporary, across the globe.
St Andrews School of History @standrewshist.bsky.social School of History @uniofstandrews.bsky.social
World-leading researchers and top-quality teaching
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/
Leeds Uni PRHS @leedsprhs.bsky.social School of Philosophy, Religion, and History of Science at The University of Leeds.
Info for current and prospective students and researchers.
University of Southampton History Department @historyatsoton.bsky.social History at the University of Southampton, where staff and students, past, present and future discuss history. southampton.ac.uk/study/subjects/history
School of Archaeology & Ancient History, University of Leicester @archanchistleic.bsky.social Profiling students, staff and general amazingness of the School of Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Leicester.
Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social Durham University's Department of History is nestled right at the heart of this historic city, sitting alongside the World Heritage Cathedral and Castle.