Rob Priest @rdpriest.bsky.social Historian of Europe, mostly. My latest book is called Oberammergau: https://tinyurl.com/5d7vubck
When I have time, thinking and writing about culture wars. First thoughts: https://tinyurl.com/yhjbssct
Here to read, only occasionally to post.
Maria (M.J.) Hyland @mjhyland.bsky.social Joined 6/9/2026. Multi-award-winning novelist & short-story writer. Shortlisted: Man Booker Prize, William Hazlitt Essay prize, Commonwealth Writers' Prize & more. RLF Fellow in the History dept/Uni of Manchester. https://mjh2024.wixsite.com/mjhyland
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
Tim Schmalz @timschmalz.bsky.social Head of History, Deputy Housemaster and Rowing Coach | Cambridge PhD | Historian of Interwar Europe
Historian1661 @historian1661.bsky.social Independent scholar. I'm not in academia.
Comparativist.
Former staff member, Princeton U. Library.
Colin Danby @cdanby.bsky.social Heterodox economist working on race in the history of economic thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
Formerly Seattle, now retired and living in London.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
Rachel Kenyon @rach-elk.bsky.social Business Engagement Manager at University of Manchester, supporting collaboration and knowledge exchange between academic researchers and non-academic partners. Coop National Member Council member. Pro-manchester board director. Running nerd and coach.
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
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).
@majesticwine.bsky.social @majesticwine.bsky.social 
Bishopsgate Institute @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online. https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/
Wren Halley Oswin ❄️ @folkpunkwitch.bsky.social kantian, green anarchist, mutualist, enby.
📚 poet, linguist, folkie, anthropology nerd
V-straight-edge, quakers 🏴🇩🇪🇮🇹🇳🇱
@claireincarpi.bsky.social @claireincarpi.bsky.social Ukraine in the EU 🇺🇦 yes. Italy is home after 35 years. Abhor any thing fascist & far Right. #RejoinEU #FBPE
Parti Poodles keep me entertained
Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social Space politician. ‘’Face of the Establishment’. Sane.
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / + new things on political ecology and psychoanalysis. Precariously employed 🫠
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/history/people/academic-staff/dr-ben-mechen
Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social antifascist | newsroom veteran, fledgling cellist, former emt, budding bird enthusiast | he/they | ally 🏳️🌈 | RT ≠ endorsement | ex CNBC, WWD, TODAY show, NBCNews, Associated Press, Arizona Republic etc
madeline odent @oldenoughtosay.com chaos feed. heritage, history, old buildings, social justice. 🏴🇺🇸🏳️🌈. sea witch, professional gargoyle, teller of tales. (she/her)(Oxford, England)
Paul Seaward @pseaward.bsky.social History of Parliament, parliamentarism and politics in Britain and Europe from the middle ages to now; C17th English political thought and political history; Clarendon, Hobbes. A parliamentary miscellany at https://historyofparliamentblog.wordpress.com 
amelia | cotton & steam @cottonandsteam.bsky.social Pub dwelling conversationalist & good-time girl in Manchester, UK.
Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social Writing and teaching about C19 literature, empire, race, and climate collapse. Editor of Victorian Poetry (JHUP). Lover of all things goth. She / her.
Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com I write the media/internet/culture/politics/whatever newsletter The Present Age: www.readtpa.com
Chicagoan / wife of @kaylapekkala.com / second favorite human to two dogs / not an activist / likes baseball
Imogen Tyler @imogentyler.bsky.social Professor of Sociology
social justice; historical sociology; political economy; anti-poverty; anti-racism; colonial histories & legacies; class struggle; stigma; environmental justice. 🌳 🌊 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧ 🍉
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Imogen-Tyler
Zoë Garbett @zoegarbett.bsky.social Green Candidate for Mayor of Hackney 2026 / Green Party Member of London Assembly / Dalston Ward Councillor.
She/her.
Promoted by Stefan Liberadzki on behalf of Zoë Garbett, Green Party, c/o PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Laura @lalaeta.bsky.social glamorous sybarite, lexicunt, βίβλιοπόρνη
wien/berlin
Rachel Millward @rachelmillward.bsky.social Deputy Leader, Green Party of England & Wales. co-leader of Wealden District Council, Sussex. Spokesperson: Culture, Sport & Digital Inclusion. Founder of Birds Eye View int'l women's film festival. Friends of River Medway. Ashdown Forest conservator.
Chris Dillow @chrisdillow.bsky.social Bourgeois interests, proletarian instincts.
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.
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.
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
Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com Belfast writer. He/him. NUJ. I mostly moan about the media, politics & Arsenal. "Big beast transgender activist" [The Telegraph].
The Trans Agenda [on a break] reports on anti-trans media coverage in UK papers, subscribe here transagenda.info
Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social Glaswegian academic, Oxford. Mostly found in the c17th. Preoccupied by essays, etymology, grammar, puns, paintings, Czech. Out in summer 2027: Robert Burton: A Vital Melancholy.
Eyre @eyr.ee Tara tells stories with art and music. Kigurumi x Chiptune artist in Bristol, UK.
https://l.eyr.ee
Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social Writer and researcher (Sight & Sound, BBC radio, etc.) interested in cinema, nature, power. New book *A Star Wars World* forthcoming 2027 with Bloomsbury. Let's get organised. Pass me the matches. She/her.
Eddie Meehan @eddiemeehan99.eurosky.social Carolingian monasticisms, intellectual culture and digital humanities, doing monastically economic things
Alison Carrol @alisoncarrol.bsky.social Historian at Brunel Uni of London working on borders in modern Europe. Author of The Return of Alsace. Current project: the idea of the Channel tunnel.
Dr Luke Young @lukeyoungw.bsky.social Scholar/writer, working in HE welfare. Turning my PhD into a book: On Liberal Democracy and the Temperaments of the 20th Century Essay. (https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:97815cf0-3ebf-43d3-814d-29df44d5575d)
Trying.
Sociology Lens (formerly Journal of Historical Sociology) @sociologylens.bsky.social Sociology Lens is indexed in SSCI (Web of Science) and ranked Q1 in Scopus.
#Sociology #History
Published by WILEY.
Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Bekir Düzcan (e.duzcan@uu.nl)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832580x
Siobhán Jolley @siobhanjolley.bsky.social Some time writer, educator, and curator; full time Mary Mag Hag | Currently lecturing @uomreligion
Dr Ellie Hardy @ellie-hardy.bsky.social Recovering academic. Institute manager at the Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social
Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social Well-meaning liability.
British (derogatory)
Sexual swear words are those of my employers.
Tip jar: https://ko-fi.com/samwhytebluesky
Mallory Moore @sexabolition.blog Trans liberation and information security. @transsafety.network
Manchester, UK
Alice McCool @mccoolingtons.bsky.social ❌ On sick leave ❌ Journalist + feminist. Investigative reporter at The Nerve. Formerly Good Law Project. Other bylines inc The Guardian, CNN, Dazed, TIME Magazine. They/them.
www.alicemccool.com
Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social Geographies & histories of what we have come to call “mental health” | the university | daydreams & fantasies | Freud | Marx
Editor, History of the Human Sciences @histhum.bsky.social
Kate Osborne MP @kateosbornemp.bsky.social Labour MP for Jarrow and Gateshead East.
Proud Trade Unionist, fighting for socialism, equality, LGBTQ+ rights
CN Lester 🏳️⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social Multi-genre musician
Co-lead @TransUnityQuilt
Founder & Artistic Director of Transpose
PhD on Barbara Strozzi - interdisciplinary work is life
’Trans Like Me’, ‘Furies,’ 2 current trans historical WIP
they/them
www.cnlester.com
www.transpose.org.uk
Philippa Vishnyakov @revealmcr.bsky.social Manchester Green Badge Tour Guide. Walks and tours. The original lunchtime Manchester Netwalks for business.
I can't access DMs so please contact via website.
www.revealmanchester.co.uk
Highlighting women in the footnotes of Manchester history.
Halie Torris @halietorris.bsky.social 🎨 oil painter | painting through the sapphic gaze
Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social Author, speaker, and organizer. PhD researching political philosophy, social movements, and trans history. She/her
Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social I write poems.
Shows: https://brianbilston.com/events/
Books: https://brianbilston.com/books/
Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social STOP TRUMP #stoptrump
History: gender, women, children, music, African diasporas, queer histories, disabilities.
British #womencomposers 🎶
Long-term housebound with
#longcovid
Garden flora and fauna 🌿 🐦⬛🐞
Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social 📜 Historian of Women, Material Culture & Fashion, 1500-1800 | 🧵 Recreation & Making | 📚 Author of Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury)| ✍️ Editor of Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP)| https://linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Dave Cornell @drdavecornell.bsky.social Philosopher | Writer | Lecturer
www.drdavecornell.com
Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social Professor Emeritus (University of Manchester), writes on biology, history of science & French Resistance. Most recent book: a biography of Francis Crick. Now writing THE IDEA OF HEREDITY.
Link to publications: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8258-4913
Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social Historian and Writer, Anglophile and European. Dr. Phil. FRHistS. Senior Associate Fellow, RUSI.
All views strictly my own.
Author FANTASTIC KINGDOM John Murray 2026. www.helenevonbismarck.com
@tompye.bsky.social @tompye.bsky.social 
Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social Researches the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, Linnaean natural history, and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3. https://instructingnaturalhistory.com/
Ian Stewart @stewartian.bsky.social I wrote a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222516/the-celts?srsltid=AfmBOorQvQJyyJARlZquwqfL1UdsDYDrOFbYrbzGJbAcMxEvaZZkl5CV
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Christian K. Melby @christianmelby.bsky.social Associate Professor of Modern History at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), Bergen, Norway. 'Invasions: Fears and fantasies of imagined wars in Britain, 1871-1918' out now
Olly Gough @ollygough.bsky.social UK infrastructure + energy policy 🏗️🚈
History of political thought on voluntary associations DPhil @ Oxford 🎓
Former Labour Party Candidate in High Barnet 🌹
Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social Podcast host & writer. US & UK politics, philosophy, religion, & the odd food pics.
Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social English prof, Uni of Exeter. Prone to talk about UK politics, higher education policy, the 17th century, the excellence of English studies, & Aussie sports.
Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social Patreon.com/robinince for blog posts and podcasts
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler • the thing is to dazzle
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
Charlotte Cull @charlottecull.bsky.social Visiting Research Fellow at KCL, working on Anarchism, the Freedom Defence Committee and the British Left 1940-1960. Admin at RHS. Views my own.
Alexia Yates @ayates.bsky.social Historian of modern Europe, global urban history, history of economic life. Florence/Manchester/Paris/Toronto/St.John’s.
Daniel Jenkin-Smith @dcjenkin-smith.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher - author of 'The Rise of Office Literature' (Bloomsbury, 2025) - co-host of @smfmspodcast.bsky.social
Il faut, comme disait Balzac, offrir une surface commerciale.
Manon Raffard @manonraffard.bsky.social PhD | Researches #smellstudies #envhum, #inequalities, #hstm, and #19thc #frenchstudies
Autistic academic
Hallsworth Research Fellow @manchester.ac.uk
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/m-raffard/
Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk Legal researcher, writer, journalist | Trans Rights Lead @ Good Law Project | PhD student @ University of Leeds
Views my own. Not your lawyer; not legal advice.
They/them
hello@jessothomson.co.uk
Natacha @natacha.bsky.social Dr Natacha Kennedy 🏳️⚧️ Sociologist/Agnotologist, anti-Brexit. She/her. Opinions expressed here are my own. Block Early Block Often 🇵🇸
Publications: https://goldsmiths.academia.edu/NatachaKennedy
Thomas Mann:
“Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.”
Andrew Seaton @andrewseaton.bsky.social Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, welfare | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Hallsworth Fellow, University of Manchester
http://andrew-seaton.com
David Morgan-Owen @dmorganowen.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR @ St Andrews | Historian of War | next book strategy & seapower in the FWW | own views
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social C19 literary critic & cultural historian. Author of Louise Michel in America (Rutgers UP 2027) + Sensational Internationalism. Editor of NY: A Literary Anthology + the CC to Literature and Food. UCU NEC member. She/her.
https://www.j-michelle-coghlan.com
King of the Road @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social THINK!
Stop, Look, Listen, Live
Kathleen J. Frydl @kfrydl.bsky.social February 2026: Liberalism & the Reinvention of the Modern Corporation
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/liberalism-and-the-reinvention-of-the-modern-corporation-9780197567401?lang=en&cc=us#
Dr Gillian Jack @drgillhistory.bsky.social Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Open University. Feminist. UCUCommons & NEC. She/her. Strong words; weak tea.
Book out in October: https://uolpress.co.uk/book/prostitution-repentance-and-social-welfare-in-renaissance-florence/
Manchester History @mcrhistory.bsky.social Manchester and Salford anniversaries, memories and photos. Also RTs relating to history and events.
Lucy Jones @lucyjones.bsky.social She/her. Researching language, gender & sexuality, especially LGBTQ+ youth identity and intersectionality.
Professor of Sociolinguistics at University of Nottingham, UK.
https://queerlinglang.wordpress.com/
ORCID: 0000-0002-8947-9577
Views my own
Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Tomás Irish @tomasirish.bsky.social Professor at Swansea University. Interested in internationalism, humanitarianism, reparations, war and peace. Currently writing book about creation of UNESCO.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/feeding-the-mind/54928931819294582DE0357C61AEBD7F
Lindsay Van Horn @lindsayvh.bsky.social History of political thought @ Princeton (PhD candidate). Big Padres fan, video game enjoyer, and lover of emo music. Really only here to (doom)scroll, I guess.
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Jola (Close Reading) @closereadingie.bsky.social Indexer. Copyeditor. Proofreader. Medieval historian. Jeanne de Divion was framed. TTRPG enthusiast. Indexes things from Aristotle to the X-Men. Past president Indexing Society of Canada. Co-chair KWG Twig, Editors Canada. closereadingie.com. She/They.
Johan Östling @johanostling.bsky.social Professor of history • Knowledge, ideas, people, universities, the humanities, Europe – past and present • Director of the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK)
John Ayshford @johnayshford.bsky.social History PhD student at the University of Manchester researching John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor, and republican political thought.
The Simons of Manchester (2024)
https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176387/
Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net 🏳️⚧️🇵🇷 Senior Clinical Instructor, Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic. Gender & Tech. Views = my own. She/Her.
Inquiries: alejandracaraballo.com/contact
Olivia Mitchell @livsmitch.bsky.social Historian of the British Empire, race, gender and newspapers. Lecturer in Modern History at University of Manchester
Heather Cole @heathercole.bsky.social Head of Collections, Teaching and Research at the University of Manchester Library/John Rylands Research Institute and Library
Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social Professor of European Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Elections, parties, social democracy & the radical right. he/him. 🏳️🌈
รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ 🏳️🌈 @sloanelysbeth.bsky.social she/her, trans, 42
onlyfans: https://onlyfans.com/sloanesolo
coffee/tip: https://ko-fi.com/sloanelysbeth
Chris Meckstroth @chrismeckstroth.bsky.social Assoc. Professor of History, University of Cambridge. Writer on the history of democracy. Hailing from Normal, Illinois
Mo Moulton @momoulton.bsky.social Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). he/him. Writing and researching to answer the timeless question: how do cooperatives and capitalism and trans theory and queer kinship fit together?
Celia Richardson @celiarichardson.bsky.social Tea, scones, independent institutions and why they need looking after. Director of Communications @NationalTrust.bsky.social Trustee, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. The posts are just mine.
Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social Independent journalist covering tech, culture, and politics @spitfirenews.com. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/kattenbarge
Judith A. Miller @1789jam.bsky.social French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
User #396,109 :)
Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social Research centre specialising in the history of the book, manuscript and print studies, textual scholarship, digital editing and new critical approaches to literary history at the School of Advanced Study, University of London
https://ies.sas.ac.uk/
Wendy Chamberlain MP @wendychambld.bsky.social Liberal Democrat MP for North East Fife 🔶 Chief Whip
Shinty player 🔶
Wendy.Chamberlain.mp@parliament.uk
she/her