Dave Voisey @davev-vickersmg.bsky.social History Teacher, ITT mentor and Education Officer at the Vickers MG Collection - interested in discussing how we teach warfare
Mark M. Turner @markturner25.bsky.social Retired soldier, historical researcher, and college educator. All views and opinions here are my own. Democracy is never finished.
Christopher Powers @powersglobal.bsky.social International Educator, Assistant Vice President for International Initiatives, Towson University, Baseball Fan, He/him, All views my own
Commonwealth War Graves @cwgc.bsky.social Our mission is to ensure those who died in service, or as a result of conflict, are commemorated so that they, and the human cost of war, are remembered forever
Independent Historians Network (UK) @indyhistnetwork.bsky.social Set up by Emma Bastin, Lucy Jane Santos, Karen Averby and Kathryn Ferry the Independent Historians Network is for exactly what the name suggests! A network for those historians working outside academia. Join up now.
https://independenthistorians.org
David Pattie @davidpattie.bsky.social Teaches Drama at University of Birmingham. Scot. And unfeasibly tall.
Written about Beckett, UK theatre, popular music, Eno, Kraftwerk, Velvets, Talking Heads, and why gigs look the way they do.
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
becimay @becimay.bsky.social Senior lecturer, Cymraes. Author of Granular Modernlsm (OUP, 2014) and Modernism’s Whims (Forthcoming from OUP, 2025).
Mark Doidge @markdoidge.bsky.social Sociologist at Loughborough University researching sport, environmental sustainability, antiracism & refugees. Member of @fanseurope & @britsoci
Lisa Rullsenberg @rullsenberg.bsky.social Crafter, slow runner, UCU active, reader, art historian, DW nerd, theatre lover
Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social Roman historian, digital humanist & contributor at Hyperallergic
Book 📕 Strike: Labor, Unions & Resistance in the Roman Empire (Feb. 2025) : https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300273144/strike/
Pasts Imperfect:
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/
Kate Littler @palaeoclimate.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Palaeoclimate | Department of Earth & Environmental Science, University of Exeter (Cornwall) | Marine geology | Micropalaeontology | Geochemistry | IODP | Birding | Parenting small humans
Francesca Stavrakopoulou @proffrancesca.bsky.social Chaired Professor of Hebrew Bible & Ancient Religion. Geeky. Greeky. Atheist. Author. Sideline in TV, radio, etc. GOD: AN ANATOMY winner of PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022. Work profile: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/1365-francesca-stavrakopoulou
Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social Geographer - Professor - Mum - Playing - #playstreets - Cycling - #kidicalmass - #WarOnCars - Walking - Noticing - Green - North Tyneside - North Shields - UK
Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social Associate Prof & Head of History @YSJ. Early Soviet history and Stalinism. The Red Army and the Great Terror (2015); The Soviet-Polish War and its Legacy (2023). Working on POWs and the Soviet Red Cross. Occasional drummer https://shorturl.at/LRaWz
First World War Studies @fwwsjournal.bsky.social Official account of First World War Studies, scholarly journal of the International Society for First World War Studies https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rfww20
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
@heather-jones-ww1.bsky.social @heather-jones-ww1.bsky.social
Andrew McGettigan @amcgettigan.bsky.social Author The Great University Gamble.
University funding & financing.
But also chess, shogi and tai chi.
andrewjmcgettigan AT gmail
Ediciones Universidad Simón Bolívar @edicionesusb.bsky.social 📚Cuenta oficial del Departamento de Publicaciones de la Universidad Simón Bolívar (Barranquilla, Colombia)
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social Academic in Hove.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com Senior Lecturer in Art History, University of Essex. Trustee, Bishopsgate Institute. Law Student. Historian of tattooing. Podcaster @beneaththeskinpod.history.tattoo. 'Painted People' and 'Tattoos' out now. ADHD.
Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester, specialising in histories of sleep, healthcare practices, and supernatural beliefs.
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.
Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social director @CREMS-York.bsky.social ~ advocacy & public engagement @royalhistsoc.org ~ writing on early modern religion & culture: music, language, sound, travel, women ~ reviews editor: sonancejournal.com ~ views mine ~ www.york.ac.uk/history/people/murphy/
Adam Chapman @adamchapman.bsky.social Medieval historian interested in Wales, Somerset exile, inept cricketer, General Editor of the longest-running and largest local history project yet devised, the Victoria County History of England. Probably drinking tea.
Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social Mild-mannered lecturer by day…mild-mannered lecturer by night. Welsh lit, politicians’ fictions. Fencer, cyclist, UCU. Dysgwr Cymraeg; tá gaeilge agam. Barnau fy hun.
Read books; join unions; block cookies.
University of Mordor.
Niamh Coffey @niamhcoffey.bsky.social World History List at Bloomsbury Academic. PhD in Irish Republican women's activism in Britain.
HADES @wearehades.bsky.social HADES at University of Melbourne (Humanities and Diverse eResearch Scholars) unite around inclusive, diverse and ethical approaches to digital research in HASS fields, and the crucial link between teaching & research https://go.unimelb.edu.au/x4ip
Timothy J. White @whitetimothyj.bsky.social Professor of Political Science, Xavier University
Irish Politics, Northern Ireland, the Irish Diaspora in the US, Political Culture, US Foreign Policy, and the Politics of War and Peace
Currently working on power transition theory in Northern Ireland
Florida Man, PhD @casusscribere.bsky.social Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him)
Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES)
Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T
Dissertation: Crusader Kings and the Crusader Kings community.
Neja Blaj Hribar @neja-bh.bsky.social Historian, research assistant (INZ)
SE Europe (esp. YU), migrations, censuses, ideologies, digital humanities, late 19. and 20. century
Also: dogs, music, literature
She/her
Views my own
Christopher R Davis @christopherdavis67.bsky.social PhD Historian. Modern America, History of Sport, Desegregation of College Football
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
UCL Institute of Advanced Studies @ucl-ias.bsky.social UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) is a centre of advanced research, debate and dialogue across any kind of boundary, intellectual or institutional.
QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social Queen Mary Centre for British Studies
Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
Nicole Townsend @townsend-nic.bsky.social Historian
Lecturer in War Studies, UNSW Canberra
Director, Second World War Research Group, Asia-Pacific
2026 David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellow, State Library of New South Wales
All views my own
Angela Cassidy @angecass.bsky.social Undisciplined scholar. Researching science, society+policy; humans-animals-environments; #OneHealth #microbes #STS #HistSTM #scicomm.
Author, 'Vermin, Victims and Disease: British Debates over Badgers and Bovine TB'
Sameen @sameen-mohsin.bsky.social Associate Professor. Research bureaucratic politics, political elites, and governance in Pakistan. Views my own. Formerly LUMS, SOAS, LSE. https://www.sameenmohsinali.com/ Enthusiastic about 🏊🏽♀️🧶📚🤿🖼️, pop culture, travel. No DMs
Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social MWHN is an international, interdisciplinary & all-career-stages networking & dissemination platform for military welfare, care & medical history researchers & projects. Coordinated by @paulhuddie.bsky.social
Visit: https://militarywelfarehistory.com
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!
Erik Linstrum @eriklinstrum.bsky.social Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY and RULING MINDS. 2026 Guggenheim Fellow. Working on fascism and empire. Writing in Literary Review, Jacobin, New Republic, History Today, etc.
Tom Fletcher @tomfletcherun.bsky.social United Nations Humanitarian Chief.
Ex Principal, Hertford College, Oxford; Ambassador, No 10, NYU Prof.
Diplomat, writer, educator, humanitarian.
Ruairí Cullen @ruairicullen.bsky.social HE policy @ The British Academy.
Kiara Gregory @kiaragregory.bsky.social PhD candidate in MIC, researching Guinness’s Dublin brewery and its employees during the First World War.
Authored, World War One Irish soldiers-Their final testament. CD-Rom.
Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
Dr Andrew Whittaker @andrewwhittaker.bsky.social Historian. War, society & culture in twentieth century London with special interests in education, migration, social class and commemorative practices.
Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social Historian at CCCU: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968
Councillor of the Royal Historical Society; SHS executive; EHS. Views own.
Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013",
Soon: 'The Wheel of Poverty'. He/him.
John Sutton @suttonprofessor.bsky.social Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social Political Economy of Media Theory; Director, RPTF + Sound Fellow, Library of Congress NRPB; Associate Professor, University of Colorado
Adrián Oyaneder @adrian-oyaneder.bsky.social Senior Lecturer - Anthropology Department
University of Tarapacá, Chile
--- Also ---
UEO - OENI
Unidentified Ethnic Object
Objeto Etnico No Identificado
Professor Andrekos Varnava, FRHistS, FRSA, FAHA (Ανδρίκκος) @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan
https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social Global research policy, funding & HE news from Research Professional News, including Research Fortnight, Research Europe and Research Africa. Part of Clarivate.
Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social she/her | Roman lit, culture, & history (& all things Nero) at Duke | Mellon Leadership Fellow | humanities advocate | catch me on WiredTechSupport: https://tinyurl.com/RomeWired | Read about Myths of Useless Humanists: https://tinyurl.com/HumMyths
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
Josef Mühlbauer @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Author, Speaker, Peace Researcher: josef.muehlbauer@uni-graz.at
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
Emma Kalb @emmakale.bsky.social Postdoc at Uni Bonn. Historian of slavery, gender, and sexuality in early modern South Asia.
@danielafarina.bsky.social @danielafarina.bsky.social
Linnea Wallen @linneawallen.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology | Researching memory work in museum community engagement activities | (she/her)
📍Glasgow
Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social Political Economist & Head of Humanities & Social Sciences at University of Exeter in 〓〓 | Centre for Public Understanding of Defence & Security | Critical Minerals Challenge Centre | Centre for Sociodigital Futures
Jacinta Mallon @jacintamallon.bsky.social 🏡 historian, generally thinking about home/emotion/war
🏰 currently doing collections management at the Keep Military Museum
🎓 PhD from UKC, also previously IHR
WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social https://waterfordwhispers.shop/
Rebecca Graff-McRae @poliscirish.bsky.social Political researcher. Deconstructor of discourses. Dancer of jigs. Spectator of spectres. Herder of hooligans.
PhD in Irish political history. QUB alum. Research manager at Parkland Institute
THE SOE and British Culture @covertcultures.bsky.social The SOE, Covert Action, and the British Cultural Imaginary: @LeverhulmeTrust funded project based at @READEnglish, Durham University: https://soeandbritishculture.webspace.durham.ac.uk/
Harry Richards @drharryrichards.bsky.social First World War historian researching cultural depictions of espionage and their impacts | Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Portsmouth | Deputy Director of Portsmouth Military Education Team
Joel Morley @joelmorley.bsky.social Oral historian; cultural history of war and gender.
Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526157232/
Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her
Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Dr. Rachel Schine @rachelschine.bsky.social Picks books up and puts them down. Will work 4 ليمون نعناع.
Professes Arabic and History @ UMD
Hears selectively. Reads voraciously.
Alexander Karn @xankarn.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. of History at SLAC (NY, USA). Not representing employer.
Interests: the politics of history, historical justice, historical dialogue, reconciliation.
Commentary: Mother Jones, The Progressive, Salon, HuffPost.
Resist Much, Obey Little.
Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of Accounting. Member, UK House of Lords.
If with all your effort and might you do not reach the mountain top that is not failure; failure is that you did not even try.
Gary Love @garylove.bsky.social Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism; writing politics in modern Britain; & women in British politics
Sciences Po - CERI @ceri-sciencespo.bsky.social Le CERI est une unité Mixte de recherche Sciences Po/CNRS qui se consacre depuis 1952 à l’étude des questions internationales.
A joint Sciences Po / CNRS. Research Unit, CERI has been studying international questions since 1952.
sciencespo.fr/ceri/fr
EastGermanyOnline @ddronline.bsky.social Posts about East Germany by Dr Richard Millington. Liverpool, UK. All opinions my own. 🇩🇪🇪🇺🇬🇧
John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social Professor @cais-exeter.bsky.social University of Exeter, UK. Author of "Security After Christendom" (2024) and "Indulging Kleptocracy" (2025). Academic freedom by/for/of academics.
James Connolly @drjamesconnolly.bsky.social Historian at UCL SELCS specialising in modern France and Europe, the First World War, and military occupation. Other interests include film, TV, gaming, and comedy (especially puns). Very occasional stand-up comedian (12 performances so far).
Jamie Johnson @jamcjo.bsky.social Lecturer in International Relations. Researches liberalism's wars, crises, and scandals.
Malte Riemann @malteriemann.bsky.social Assistant Professor in War, Peace, and Justice at Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/staffmembers/malte-riemann#tab-1
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/security-studies/book277843
Helen Berents @hmberents.bsky.social children & youth. peace & conflict.
feminist. academic. baker. probably in that order.
researcher @ Griffith Uni. she/her
www.hmberents.com | https://theYPSobserver.substack.com/
ForcesWatch @forceswatch.bsky.social 👁️🗨️A sharp eye on military power in the UK.
https://linktr.ee/forceswatch
Victoria M Basham @victoriambasham.bsky.social Posts in a personal capacity (generally about academia and politics, and occasionally about Bristol and craft beer)- P Peter Gatrell @pwgatrell.bsky.social Historian - mainly researching refugee history in the 20c. … but it’s not just about refugees… oh, and still learning about what’s at stake then and now. Funded generously in the past by AHRC and Leverhulme Trust and enabled by UNHCR Records and Archives
Their Finest Hour @theirfinesthour.bsky.social University of Oxford crowdsourcing initiative. The online archive, released 6 June 2024, contains 25,000+ newly uncovered Second World War stories and digitised objects | theirfinesthour.org
Sinisa Malesevic @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social UCD Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology and Senior Fellow at CNAM, Paris. New books: 'Nationalism as a Way of Life', 'Why Humans Fight', 'Contemporary Sociological Theory', 'Grounded Nationalisms' and 'The Rise of Organised Brutality'.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
British History Online @bho.bsky.social British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the Britain, Ireland and empire. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
Catherine Sloan @csloanox.bsky.social Historian of childhood & youth, Oxford. Love podcasts, bad TV, sugar. Ireland & Scotland. she/her
South Wales Miners' Library @swminerslibrary.bsky.social Promoting Your Learning; Preserving Our Past - we support the teaching and research activities of Swansea University and promote links with the wider community
The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com Independent news website. Only publishes articles written by academics and researchers. No paywall, no ads. All Creative Commons licensed.
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Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social Serious Actor.
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
Jo Godfrey @jogodfrey.bsky.social Editorial Director, Penguin Press - commissioning history for Allen Lane (views my own)
Matt E Howell @drmattehowell.bsky.social Lecturer in Sociology @ Swansea University | Ethnographer | Researching youth culture, identity, belonging, and security | Passionate about storytelling through qualitative research methods.
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
Jenny Mabbott @jennymabbott.bsky.social Head of Collections & Engagement at People's History Museum. All views my own.
Britain’s War Memorials @britwarmemorial.bsky.social Exploring Britain’s war memorials. Boer War, First World War (Great War), Second World War et al. Member of the Great War Group #LestWeForget #Remembrance
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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