Lukas Schemper @lukasschemper.bsky.social History & Politics | Disaster & Environment | Humanitarianism & Development | Sciences Po & IHEID graduate | Research fellow @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social in the project "Rethinking Global Governance and Human Security"
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights ✨
Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Dan Allen @dan-allen.bsky.social Travel + culture + queer history
Journalist for NBC Out, Nat Geo Travel, Condé Nast Traveller, Washington/LA Blade, Westways, Passport, etc
danallen.ink
🏠📍Los Angeles
Sneha Krishnan @snehakrishnan.bsky.social Historical / Cultural Geographer; Here to gripe about academia and talk about my cat; social reproduction feminist; writing about home, education, colonialism. Luddite who wants publicly owned computation. She/Her
Tom Joudrey @tomjoudrey.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Culture + Film critic.🏳️🌈🎬
Berlin Writers' Workshop @berlinwriters.bsky.social Writing workshops, events, and community in Berlin
www.berlinwritersworkshop.com
Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships @clsrleeds.bsky.social We are a research centre within the University of Leeds. Let’s think about intimacy together. - https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/420/centre_for_love_sex_and_relationships
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
West Cork Literary Festival @wcorklitfest.bsky.social * We are most active on Instagram * Thanks for joining us and making this year our biggest, buzziest festival yet. Save the dates: July 9-16 2027
https://linktr.ee/westcorkliteraryfestival
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Dr Kathleen McIlvenna @kathleenmcil.bsky.social A lecturer and historian. I work on histories of work and welfare including occupational pensions, occupational heath and family, specialising on 19th century post office and civil service. Currently working on a book looking at retirement before 1930.
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/
Benjamin Bland @benjamin-bland.bsky.social Historian (identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, politics) trying to survive the times. Writing a book about transatlantic hip-hop. Work at @yorknsc.bsky.social but views own.
Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him. alexanderchee.net
Adam Macqueen @adammacqueen.bsky.social Private Eye hack and Page 94 podcaster. Author of the 🏳️🌈Tommy Wildeblood thriller series , and ghost stories: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/author/B0034N6PK4
Bodie A. Ashton @manwithoutatan.bsky.social historian | pet shop boys fanatic | australian in germany | very bisexual | constantly podcasting | "oh, dr. bodie!" per jordan gray | they/them | latest book: “the pet shop boys and the political”
Owen Dowling @owenjdowling.bsky.social PhD @camhistory.bsky.social | International solidarity campaigns and the British left, 1960-1990 | Words in Tribune and Jacobin
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/owen-dowling
Jack Deasley @jldeasley.bsky.social 23. He/him. Doing a PhD in notions of success in ‘left behind’ areas at UCL. Wycombe Wanderers enthusiast. Governor at Banovallum School, Horncastle.
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/
@acirishstudies.bsky.social @acirishstudies.bsky.social 
The Irish Times @irishtimes.com Official account of The Irish Times. Diverse opinion, thorough reporting and outstanding writing from http://irishtimes.com
Gay Community News @gcnmag.bsky.social Ireland’s free, independent LGBTQ+ media since 1988 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Trading name of the NXF (RCN: 20034580)
https://linktr.ee/gcnmag
Tijmen van Voorthuizen @tijmenelias.bsky.social Promovendus Universiteit Utrecht | Researching the history and heritage of Queer Bars in the Low Countries | Historian of sexuality and urban space
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social Historian at the University of Chicago. Co-editor of The Journal of Modern History. New projects: Infinite Coal: How Britain Became the First Fossil Fuel Economy (Princeton UP, 2027). And with Moritz von Brescius, The Long Acceleration 1500-1950.
Mark Cousins @markcousinsfilm.bsky.social Filmmaker/writer. The Story of Film/Dear Orson Welles/A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things/Women Make Film/I am Belfast/My Name is Alfred Hitchcock/The Story of Looking/Atomic/Stockholm My Love/Life May Be/
Best info about me: https://markcousins.cargo.site/
Richard Gallagher @richardgallagher.bsky.social Sinn Féin. PhD from Queens University Belfast. Book: Screening Ulster: Cinema and the Unionists. Donegal. Email: drrichiegallagher@gmail.com
Ian Stewart @stewartian.bsky.social I wrote a book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691222516/the-celts?srsltid=AfmBOorQvQJyyJARlZquwqfL1UdsDYDrOFbYrbzGJbAcMxEvaZZkl5CV
Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social Annoying journalist, bestselling author, sweary podcaster and so forth. New Book: 31 Inventions That Built Our World (UK, out now) / A Brief History of Cities in 32 Inventions (US, 13 October).
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
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.
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
Steven Maynard @stevenmaynard.bsky.social Historian of sexuality. Queer writer. Foucault freak.
Emma Donoghue @emmadonoghue.bsky.social writer of fiction (The Paris Express, Learned by Heart, Haven, The Pull of the Stars, The Wonder, Room, etc), films, plays...
New Books Network @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social The Academic Audio Library. 30,000+ interviews with experts and authors on new scholarly, non-fiction, and literary books. New episodes every day! Find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts
https://linktr.ee/newbooksnetwork
Roz Kaveney @rozkaveney.bsky.social Elderly trans novelist and poet living in London.
Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social Historian (from below), award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright, Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh
marcusrediker.com
Will Derham @willderham.bsky.social Would-be architect, printer, gym-goer, baker... actual curator & author, among other things. Currently working in a castle. Views are my own.
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
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 Cullen @niamhcullen.bsky.social Lecturer @ QUB history. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
Danny Barreto @danburrito.bsky.social Associate Professor of LGBTQ Studies 📚Literatura galega, estudos cuir 📚 queer literature in non-sovereign states (Galicia, Puerto Rico, etc.)
Charmian Mansell @charmianmansell.bsky.social Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History | University of Warwick
Frazer Martin @frazermartin.bsky.social Associate Editor, Yale University Press London - he/they - views my own
Art Deco Society UK @artdecosocuk.bsky.social Official acc for the Art Deco Society UK. Follow us to see news, updates & help spread the love for the UK’s Art Deco or join the Society https://artdecosociety.uk/
Margaret Ward @marg50.bsky.social Feminist historian. Latest book ‘Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924’ - contact publishers info@beyondthepalebooks.com.
Irish Sex Work Research Network (ISWRN) @iswrn.bsky.social We are a platform for those interested in sex work and sexual governance scholarship within the island of Ireland.
Gareth Mulvenna @gmulvenna.bsky.social 🔍 Troubles researcher
✍️ Author of Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries (Liverpool University Press, 2016); working on a new book due out in 2028
📩 Updates on my research and writing on the Troubles
Paul Ryan @drpaulryan.bsky.social Sociologist at Maynooth University | Researching family & personal life, LGBTQ+ histories, sex work, sexuality and the law & minority health | HIV & Aids Archives | personal account.
Anna Lively @annalively.bsky.social Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in History at the University of Strathclyde, researching Irish women and interwar anti-communism. Monograph, Revolutionary Connections (OUP, 2026)
Frankie Dytor @frankiedytor.bsky.social British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Exeter | Queer & Trans visual & literary culture 1880-1930 | current project 'Aestheticism, Sexology, and the Making of Trans Feeling' | they/them
Christine Ferguson @cferguson.bsky.social Professor of English, specialising in Esotericism Studies,Victorian Literature, and History of Spiritualism & Occultism. Fan of Indian cinema and all things horror related. Based in Glasgow
Tobias Becker @tobiasbecker.bsky.social historian & curator | author of “Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia” | https://tinyurl.com/3u5sex6y
Exposing the Labour Right 🥀✊🇵🇸 @labourrightwatch.bsky.social The Labour right wing in all their glory, from Mandelson to McSweeney. The staffers, the lobbyists, the revolving door. See how they lobby for privateer corporations, cash in via disaster capitalism etc 🥀
❉ labourrightwatch.wordpress.com ❉
Fiona Buckley @fionamaybuckley.bsky.social Senior Lecturer, Department of Government & Politics, University College Cork. Researching and teaching about #womeninpolitics and #irishpolitics https://research.ucc.ie/en/persons/fiona-buckley/
Paul Baker @paulari.bsky.social Professor, author of books on Polari, Section 28 and corpus linguistics. Rejoiner 🇪🇺
University Press Sales Bot @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social 
Sonja Tiernan @sonjatiernan.bsky.social President Women’s History Association of Ireland. National Coordinator Irish Humanities Alliance, RIA. Fellow Royal Historical Society.
Author books including Eva Gore-Booth biography
She/Her
ORCID: 0000-0003-2409-311X
tiernansonja@gmail.com
Michael Pierse @michaelpierse.bsky.social Academic at Queen's University Belfast. Irish Studies. Working-class writing. Left politics. Gaeilge. Tweets own opinions. RTs not endorsements.
Dr Anna Hájková @ankahajkova.bsky.social Holocaust, Jewish, feminist, and queer history. She/her. Ukraine stan. Author of The Last Ghetto and People without History Are Dust
Dan Hancox @danhancox.bsky.social Journalist and author from south London. Latest book: MULTITUDES: How Crowds Made the Modern World (Verso 2024).
https://cursedobjects.podbean.com/
https://danhancox.substack.com/
Mark Pendleton @markpendleton.bsky.social Historian (mostly of Japan) and trade unionist (mostly in UCU). UCU Vice-president for Higher Ed. He/him
Zoe Neubauer @zneubauer.bsky.social PhD candidate at McGill University, studying trans identity in the UK, 1970-2004
Martha Robinson Rhodes @mrobinsonrhodes.bsky.social Bisexual history, queer history, cats. she/her
Out Connections Belfast Project @outconnections.bsky.social Out Connections Belfast – a project that increases awareness, understanding, and respect for the LGBTQIA+ community in Belfast.
This project is supported by PEACEPLUS, a programme
managed by the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB) –http://www.seupb.eu/
Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social writer, historian, gay wrongs activist @badgayspod.bsky.social, opera queen, @noisybits.bsky.social
OUT OF FASHION: RUDI GERNREICH & THE LIBERATION OF STYLE (2027)
BAD GAYS: A HOMOSEXUAL HISTORY (Verso, 2022)
www.benwritesthings.com
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. 🏳️🌈
Marc Mulholland @marcmulholland.bsky.social 
DUBLIN MENS GROUP @dublinmensgroup.bsky.social Fáilte and welcome to the Dublin Men’s Group (DMG), a social and networking group for gay, bi and trans men in the Dublin metropolitan region. It is a non-profit group providing social and networking opportunities for gay, bi and trans men.
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
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
Claire Mullaly @clairemullaly.bsky.social Belfast, PGR Film Censorship 1932-1937. Interests: 1930s History, Film, Queer Activism. #AlwaysAntiFascist #NoBorders #NoPasaràn #ShutDownLarneHouse #LWithTheT My own views. she/her sí/í
Victoria Anne Pearson @vapearsonduffy.bsky.social PhD candidate, Ulster University
researching the life & work of Dr Francis Moylan, RC Bishop of Kerry & Cork, 1735-1815
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/victoria-anne-pearson/
Andrew McCartan @queerdrew.bsky.social Critical Human Geographer, he/him
B. Andrew Song @basjk677.bsky.social PhD, FRAS, RHS Associate Fellow. Read history, spirituality, art, and immigration law. Research in 18th cen transatlantic British nonconformity and world Christianity.
Toronto, ON (Treaty 13)
Stevan Bozanich @stevanbozanich.bsky.social Edmonton-based (for now) 🗃️historian of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, paramilitaries, nationalism and the far-right. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0364-228X
Mathew Nicolson @eyjarskeggi.bsky.social Did a PhD in Scottish island political & constitutional history, now working in public sector. Shetlander.
Can be found doing things at:
@EuropeElects.bsky.social
@ShetlandElects.bsky.social
@HistoryofElections.bsky.social
@ScotHistNetwork.bsky.social
Michael George @mikeyjgeorge.bsky.social PhD candidate studying social and cultural history in 1960s and 70s: sex, secularism, suicide and The Samaritans. University of Huddersfield.
Patrick WJ Thompson @patrickwjthompson.bsky.social Researcher at Queen's University Belfast | Interested in civil rights, social movements, Irish-British relations | All views my own etc.
Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Adrian Kirwan @adriankirwan.bsky.social Science and Technology Studies (STS) scholar, exploring the intersection of Science, Technology and Society, including AI in Education. Teaches Critical Skills, Maynooth University.
Tina Adcock @tinaadcock.bsky.social Cultural and environmental historian of northern and western Canada. Associate professor @ SFU. Author: *A Cold Colonialism: Modern Exploration and the Canadian North.* New research: oil & queer histories🛢️👩❤️👩 More @ tinaadcock.com
Emily Hoge @emilyehoge.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Soviet History. Studying Russian organized crime, veterans, disability, and gender. Kluge Fellow 2025-2026
Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social PhD Researcher at Northumbria University
Interests: Environmental History, Transport, Mobility, Built Environment, Tyneside, 20th Century, Oral Histories.
Specialist subject: Metros, Motorways, Modernism and Municipal Ferries
Rye Hashiguchi @ryehashiguchi.bsky.social History PhD student at King's College London, researching urban history of modern London around the River Thames.
kingschostm.com/pgrs/rye-hashiguchi
🏳️🌈 (he/him)
Dr Catherine Porter 🌳🏳️🌈 @catsporter.bsky.social Geographer @ULGeog.bsky.social | FHEA | IRC PI 'OS200' @IrelandMapped.bsky.social | Heritage Council PI 'Locating Bench Marks, Preserving Heritage' | Historical Geography | Digital | GIS | DH | Spatial | Early Maps & Texts
Trask Roberts @traskroberts.bsky.social Asst Prof of French & Translation. C20/21, (self) Translation Studies, (queer) autobiography
Dr Gabby Storey @gabbystorey.bsky.social Historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality. Writer, traveller, feminist, bi (she/her) trans ally always 🏳️🌈 #teamberengaria.
Book 1: Berengaria of Navarre (Routledge, 2024). Book 2 underway! Rep'd by Georgina Capel Associates
Elizabeth Kirkland @elizakirk.bsky.social Historian of gender, politics, Montreal, migration | Dawson College | Momma bear
Sydni Zastre @sydnizastre.bsky.social M4C-funded PhD at Birmingham: Writing the pregnant body in Britain, 1918-1945.🤰📝
Brandon Andrew Robinson @drkittygirl.bsky.social Trans Pleasure --- February 2026
Associate Prof @ UCR
Konstantin Schischka @justakidfromvienna.bsky.social Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary History (@univienna) | Digital Humanities | HGIS | Public History
https://zeitgeschichte.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/projektmitarbeiterinnen/konstantin-schischka/
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
Jonathan Moss @jmoss88.bsky.social Political historian at University of Sussex. Currently researching ageing and political understandings in modern Britain.
Kirsty Peacock @ka-peacock.bsky.social History DPhil on women clerks’ opportunities and experiences of work in the City of London, 1873-1939 | she/her
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.
Patrick walsh @speakerconolly.bsky.social Associate Professor of eighteenth century Irish History, co- director Trinity Colonial Legacies Project. All views my own and not of those my employer.
VaughanCoop.bsky.social @vaughancoop.bsky.social An independent, higher education cooperative college working towards providing university-level education for part-time learners and 'second chance' study.
Emily Chung @emvchung.bsky.social PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social Author: Men at War - Loving, Lusting, Fighting, Remembering 1939-1945 on British masculinity, sexuality & the cultural memory of WWII on W&N Books/Orion. First 📖 Out of the Woods, 2019. Co-founder: The Quietus. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/luketurner ⚒️🏳️🌈
The Wine Society @thewinesociety.bsky.social The UK wine merchant that puts passion before profit, with free next-day delivery and a range of 1,500+ wines. 🍷 🏆 IWC Online Retailer of the Year 2023