Oxford Centre for the History of Childhood @histchildoxford.bsky.social Oxford University Centre for the History of Childhood - a centre established in 2003 to promote research into the history of children, youth and childhood. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/centre-history-childhood
Dina Sikorska @matterandmemory.bsky.social 
Tuva Skjelbred Nodeland @tuva-s-nodeland.bsky.social Postdoc in modern history @liu.se, currently working on Scandinavian childhoods and the Cold War.
20th century Scandinavia| Childhood, civil society and political cultures| History education and teacher training
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
Lex Academic @lexacademic.bsky.social We provide expert advisory, editorial, and translation services to academic researchers publishing across the humanities and social sciences.
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Constantine Sandis @csandis.bsky.social Director @lexacademic.bsky.social | RSA Fellow
Research Associate @ox.ac.uk & @uehiro.ox.ac.uk | Distinguished Visiting Scholar @waidecenter.bsky.social |
www.lexacademic.com
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Think Human @thinkhumanfest.bsky.social Promoting engagement with the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University
https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/think-human-festival-2026-4810811
Josefine Wähler @josefinewaehler.bsky.social 📚 Historian of Education
🏫 BBF | Research Library for the History of Education, DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education
💻 Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
📍 Berlin
Emily Gallagher @as-ruby.bsky.social Historian & Editor | Playtime (La Trobe, 2025) | Australian Dictionary of Biography | Ngunnawal & Ngambri Country
Sait Kirtepe @skrtepe.bsky.social Ph.D. at UCL Institute of Education | Research on Histories of Childhood, Education and Class
Emily Calcraft @emily-calcraft.bsky.social History PhD Candidate - University of Sheffield- Inter-war pacifism. Editorial Assistant @ Immigrants & Minorities Journal.
Thomas Ruoss @truoss.bsky.social Vocational Education and Training
History of Education
History Cafe ☕ Ottoman Heritage @ottomanhistory.bsky.social ➥ Old Photos, Pics, Docs, Maps
➥ Ottoman Empire Archives
➥ Historical Letters, Notes, Poems, Memoirs.
➥ medium.com/@HistoricalMemoirs
Dr Alison Baxter @alisonrbaxter.bsky.social Reader, writer, historian. Author of A Fatal Choice https://geni.us/FatalChoice A Cornish Cargo https://amzn.eu/d/82n7ovn and Another Song at Sunset https://amzn.eu/d/8G3915h Home Library volunteer and Trustee of Asylum Welcome.
Mette Buchardt @buchardtmette.bsky.social Professor, Head of Centre for Education Policy Research, https://www.en.culture.aau.dk/research/research-groups/cfu
Aalborg University, Aalborg & Copenhagen. Historian of Education, Church and Welfare State
Dr Jon Reid Ⓥ @drjonreid.bsky.social MBPsS, SFHEA, FRSA
#CompassionEdRevolution
Academic: SEMH
Research Fellow: Children & Young People Network
Vice-Chair: Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma
Director: Centre for Recovery from Childhood Trauma
Gary Browning @gary1234.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Political Thought, Oxford Brookes, writes on Hegel, Marx, Lyotard and the History of Political Thought with a dash of Iris Murdoch and Bob Dylan 
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/
Oxford Brookes Open Research @brookesscholcomms.bsky.social We are the Open Research team in the Oxford Brookes University Library. Until we can distinguish our Blue Sky from a hole in the ground, we will echo https://twitter.com/brookes_oa.
Joanne Begiato @jbhist.bsky.social Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~ Author of 7 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ Ex-HORRIBLE HISTORIES BBC TV 📺🤣
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
ESRC School Meals 🍽 @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social The School Meals Service: Past, Present, and Future?
https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk/
An ESRC-funded research project exploring the history, present and future of the UK School Meals Service #histed #histchild #foodhist
Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer for European Politics and History at King's College London. Opinions my own. RT not always endorsement.
Also to be found at @APHClarkson
https://www.ullstein.de/werke/die-macht-der-diaspora/hardcover/978354910
Holly Hiscox @hollyhiscox.bsky.social PhD researcher | Schools of Empire - Rugby School | OOCDTP | 19th/20th century public schools, elite formation, the City of London and imperial finance | former history teacher
Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social C19th literature. Victorian Poetry. Pre-Raphaelitism. Caregiving / Care. Editing Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti (Longman). Visit the Poetry By Carers project website https://carerspoetry.org/ for poems by caregivers.
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Karen E Andreasen @kareneandreasen.bsky.social Associate professor, PhD, AAU, Denmark, Educational research, History of education https://vbn.aau.dk/en/persons/karena
Anja Giudici @anjagiudici.bsky.social Lecturer in Education - Cardiff University
Comparative education politics & history
https://anjagiudici.github.io
Internet Archive @archive.org Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine. 
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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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
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British Library @britishlibrary.bsky.social We’re the national library of the UK.
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick @mrcwarwick.bsky.social Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
Jon Winder @drjonwinder.bsky.social Environmental Historian of Modern Britain | Heatwaves, Overheating & Environmental Change | Cities, Urban Childhoods & Play | Heritage, Public Engagement & Policy
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Charlotte Clements @cclements29.bsky.social 
Emily Baughan @emilybaughan.bsky.social historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/) 
Sarah Kenny @drsarahlkenny.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of the Centre for Modern British Studies, University of Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.
Kate Bradley @katebradleyhistory.bsky.social Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
Dr Catherine Freeman @catgqf.bsky.social Sometimes a girls' education historian, at other times at work down the history mines, finding treasure.
IHR Life Cycles seminar administrator.
Allotment keeper and one of those annoying cyclists who uses cycle lanes and obeys traffic lights.
Patrick Alexander @patgalexander.bsky.social Professor of Education and Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University, UK
Future imagining and intellectual wellbeing
Former guitarist for The Wedding Present
Slow Historian (Dr Simon Sleight) @slowhistorian.bsky.social Considered thinking - Sustainable scholarship - Artisanal histories.
Reading / writing / teaching / mentoring. @King's College London.
Occasional history musings on cities, memory, youth, Australia.
Children’s History Society @histchild.bsky.social The official account of the Children’s History Society 👧🧒
🧸Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth
🪁Our website: https://www.histchild.org/
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History of Education Society UK @histedsocuk.bsky.social Official BlueSky Account for History of Education Society UK. #histed
https://historyofeducation.org.uk/
Peter Yeandle @peteryeandle.bsky.social Historian of 19/20thC British history, working on cultural histories of war and empire.
Michael Geiss @michaelgeiss.bsky.social Historian of education
HEXHandbook @hexhandbook.bsky.social Digital Handbook of the History of Experience, published under the auspices of the Research Council of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience, Tampere University.
https://sites.tuni.fi/hexhandbook/
Matthew Gardner Kelly @mgardnerkelly.bsky.social Assistant Professor at UW. History and school finance. Book: Dividing the Public. Retweets are not endorsements. Opinions are my own. 🏳️🌈 Seattle, WA.
https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501773266/dividing-the-public/#bookTabs=1
Campbell F. Scribner @scribnerumcp.bsky.social History and Philosophy of Education at UMD. Author of A IS FOR ARSON (2023); SPARE THE ROD (2021); and THE FIGHT FOR LOCAL CONTROL (2016).
Caught somewhere between Ivan and Alyosha.
Sherman Dorn @shermandorn.com Personal account, historian of education policy
@melanietebbutt.bsky.social @melanietebbutt.bsky.social Historian, UK. Children, youth, gender, media history, public history. Emerita Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Joakim Landahl @joakimlandahl.bsky.social Professor of education, Stockholm University
Yinka Olusoga @yinkaolusoga.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Education | Researching histories/practices of childhood, play & education | Views my own | Foucault would dispute this
Fanny Isensee @fannyisensee.bsky.social historian of education | working on age-grading in (US) public education | interested in the history of motorization and schools
Gillian Lamb @historicalbeans.bsky.social Historian of Modern Britain. Focus on childhood, welfare, social mobility and poverty. Into public history. Always wishing I could do more and reach more. Keen but not very good hockey player, neglectful wife. Love cats
Elizabeth Dillenburg @edillenburg.bsky.social Historian studying girls’ migration, labor, and culture in the British Empire
Rebecca Swartz @histosaurusbex.bsky.social Historian of Empire, South Africa, education, childhood. Working on emancipation and childhood in the Cape colony. Based at Uni of the Free State 
Karin Priem @kpriem.bsky.social Visual and media history, history of education, public history, UNESCO, Education & Pandemics Digital Archive, education beyond the human.
https://www.uni.lu/en/people/karin-priem/
https://www.ische.org/education-and-pandemics-archive/#/
Catherine Sloan @csloan.bsky.social History, childhood, girlhood, periodicals; Oxford CDF; this site is my nonsense not employer’s.
Matthew R. Keynes @mkeynes.bsky.social History, justice, education | postdoc UniMelb | queer sports fan | he/they 🏳️⚧️ https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/880052-matthew-keynes
Kristen D. Nawrotzki @kdn.bsky.social historian & scholar of education & social policy, digital history; teacher of US cultural studies; developmental editor & translator DE->EN; American Heidelbergerin, Oxonian, Michigan Wolverine x3, mom x3 & Girl Scout
Dr Elena Rossi @elenarossi.bsky.social I just really like History | DPhil in History from Magdalen College, Oxford | Medieval women and universities | Colloquium Secretary at London Medieval Society | she/her
Johannes Westberg @dr-jwestberg.bsky.social Professor in Theory and History of Education, Groningen, NL. Historian of education, Groningen/Örebro/Uppsala. Father of two.
Kristine Alexander @kalexand.bsky.social 
Annmarie Valdes, PhD @avaldes725.bsky.social Education & Learning Design #HEAdmin at a land grant university. 1stGen BA-MA-PhD; #HigherEd; Historian of the 19thc #wmnhist #histed; DACA ally; #blacklivesmatter; Hecho en Chicago
Should be writing...
Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧 @jburkett.bsky.social Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
Dr. Helle Strandgaard Jensen (she/her) @sesamescholar.bsky.social Historian, professor, mom, wife, feminist, rower.
PI of ERC-project WEB CHILD, which studies changing childhoods in the early era of the WWW across the US, South Korea, and Denmark.
Latest book: "Sesame Street. A Transnational History." (OUP, 2023).
Prof Deirdre Raftery @draftery.bsky.social University College Dublin | Full Prof of the History of Education | FRHistS | Affls.: University of Cambridge & Trinity College Dublin | author | mother | gardener | sailor | book collector. Writes about 19thC schools/childhood/convents/Irish diaspora.
Christina de Bellaigue @cadebellaigue.bsky.social Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. Recently joined Green Party.
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
Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, capitalism, and schooling in Canada. Confronting residential school denialism. Books: When the Pine Needles Fall; Lessons in Legitimacy; Dissenting Traditions. www.seancarleton.com
Stephanie Olsen @stephanieolsen.bsky.social Historian of childhood, experience, emotions, education and nationalism of Britain, Empire, Global. Senior Researcher, NARS (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
Dr Heather Ellis @heatherlwellis.bsky.social SFHEA, FRHistS | Historian of education & knowledge Uni of Sheffield https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/education/people/academic/heather-ellis | Co-Investigator @esrcschoolmeals.bsky.social https://www.theschoolmealsproject.co.uk
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