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. 🔴⚪️
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Hannah Alpert-Abrams @halperta.bsky.social Here for the humanities.
Grant maker, union organizer, former federal worker, digital humanist. Writing about labor, careers, higher education, and technology. Founder @sidracollaborative.
east tennessee based | tsalagi and tsoyaha lands
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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.
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Andrew Wittkop @awestfell.bsky.social books, images, place
LITERARY VOYAGERS forthcoming from Belt Publishing
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Jack Hanlon @jackhanlon.bsky.social Curator at the Food Museum
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Queen Mary University of London
Editor at the London Journal
Michael McCluskey @mcmccluskey.bsky.social English Professor, Northeastern University
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄 @aidannorrie.bsky.social Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Tamson Pietsch @capandgown.bsky.social History, empire and the politics of knowledge. University of Technology Sydney
Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social We believe in books that promote positive change and enrich culture.
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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social Historian of Modern France at QMUL
The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
harry edwards @harry-edwards.bsky.social Berlin-based historian/academic. Ongoing PhD “Dancing at the End of the World”, an alternatice social & intellectual history of acid house/rave, the early internet and 'end of history' via Megatripolis. On paternity leave. https://linktr.ee/harry.edwards
Kris Inwood @kris-inwood.bsky.social Economic historian w broad interests including population health, First Nations, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. Directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com & editing Asia-Pacific EcHR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/2832157x
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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social Senior Teaching Fellow in Modern European Culture, UCL. Proudly Cornish and quasi-Italian. Interested in the 1930s (1848-1950). Biographer of Celia Fremlin.
Elizabeth Darling @archhistdarling.bsky.social Architectural historian, lecturer, author, specialising in histories of modernist cultures in Britain, esp 20s/30s; expert on women & architecture 1890s to the present. New book out now: https://www.lundhumphries.com/products/palace-of-the-ether
Michelle Henning @michellehenning.bsky.social Prof at Uni of Liverpool and artist. I write on photography, media, museums, ISOTYPE, modernism, environment & atmosphere. Photography: The Unfettered Image (2018) & A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog & Empire, Chicago UP (Fall 2025)
Averill Earls @aearls.bsky.social Historian of sexuality and Ireland at St Olaf College. Executive Producer digpodcast.org. Layout Editor nursingclio.org. (3rd place) Winner of the 2024 MN State Fair Gingersnap competition.
SPIRITUALISM'S PLACE out now. LOVE IN THE LAV coming soon
Elizabeth Drummond @eadhistory.bsky.social Historian | Nationalism | German-Polish borderlands | Max Thalmann | German Studies Collaboratory | usual disclaimers that views my own and reposts ≠ endorsements | she/sie | https://eadhistory.org/
Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social Yale University Press in London https://yalebooks.co.uk/
Publishing books that champion arts & humanities 🏰 home of history!
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The Urban History Group @urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
Jon Lawrence @jonhistorian61.bsky.social Historian of class and politics in Modern Britain - author of Me, Me, Me? The search for community in post-war England @ https://tinyurl.com/463e6tff 
Sarah Crook @sarahcrook.bsky.social Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Cornell University Press @cornellupress.bsky.social First University Press in the US
Established 1869
http://cornellpress.cornell.edu
Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
Holly Smith @holsmith.bsky.social Research Fellow @ University of Cambridge // My book UP IN THE AIR: A HISTORY OF HIGH-RISE BRITAIN (Verso) is out now 🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
Otto Saumarez Smith @osaumarezsmith.bsky.social Historian of shopping precincts, derelict landscapes, leisure centres, power stations, inner cities, housing, the Potteries, Telford new town, & city centre redevelopment. @c20society casework & trustee.
Alastair Owens @alastairhackney.bsky.social Professor at Queen Mary University of London; Chair of Trustees at the Geographical Association. Research, write and teach about Britain (especially London) since 1800. Collaborator, especially with heritage sector + food, music, books, Hackney.
@lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social Historian. University of Essex, School of Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies. President of the Royal Historical Society
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
Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social Prof. of Modern History & Memory Studies & Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Research & Impact HASS, University of Exeter | RHS Councillor 2025-29 | all views my own
Eloise Moss @ladyburglar.bsky.social Professor of Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social Writes about old, unhappy, far-off things. Late museum curator. Shows polite interest. FRHistS. https://simonjoneshistorian.com/
Shannon Devlin @shannondevlin.bsky.social Historian of siblings, the family, gender and sexuality, and 19th-century Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway. All my own thoughts. She/her
Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social Historian of modern cultural history, primarily Britain & Ireland
Author of Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation (Cornell, 2026) & After the Shock City: Urban Culture & the Making of Modern Citizenship (Boydell, 2019)
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
The Norton Library @nortonlibrary.bsky.social An affordable classic works reprint series by W. W. Norton & Company, Independent & Employee-Owned. Share what you're teaching & your dream Norton Library titles! Read along with us here: https://seagull.wwnorton.com/nortonlibrary
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
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 
Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope.
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
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?
Dr Aimée Fox @draefox.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in IR at University of St Andrews | Historian of war | Award-winning author | Series editor, War & the British Empire (McGill-Queen's UP) | I research the First World War, military innovation & learning, and gossip in the armed forces.
Natalie Hanley-Smith @nathanley-smith.bsky.social 18th century enthusiast, avid walker and swimmer.
Teaching fellow at Warwick University. 
Ryan Morris-Weberling @laurentia.substack.com For a year, I am researching one new species each week: https://laurentia.substack.com
I'm also making a contemplative archive of art/readings that change across the day (and night): https://earthlyhours.com
Join the club: https://otherwise.dfos.com
MrsFishVEVO @willkellogg.bsky.social lgbtq rat boy
Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social History, Britain, culture, cities, selfhood, sexuality, gender, #20s30s.
Now - The Institute: The untold story of Pelmanism and its followers
Just out - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP)
He / him
1926 News @100yearsago.bsky.social An account that covers the Roaring Twenties (1920s), day by day, in real time. DMs open for contact and inquiries.
Partnered with @80yearsago.bsky.social, @200yearsago.bsky.social, and @40yearsago.bsky.social
Donate to us: https://ko-fi.com/1945news
Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social
Historian, Canadian, Philadelphian. Higher ed, urban🚲, books, cats, hockey. At Penn's CETLI; teach South Asia & Hist Sci/Med/Tech.
Disappointing people since 1972.
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/
Colette Shade (buy Y2K!!) @coletteshade.bsky.social Author, Y2K: How the 2000's Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was). The NYT called me “lean, nimble, and profoundly depressing,” but I think I’m pretty fun. I have a black cat named Camus and I live in Ann Arbor.
Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social Just to let you know, there are many, many recipes waiting for you on www.nigella.com
Douglas Small @drdouglassmall.bsky.social Drug Historian. Author of ‘Cocaine, Literature, and Culture, 1876-1930’. Histories of Victorian medicine & science. #c19th #medhums
he/him 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Website: https://douglassmall.com
Profs and Pints @profsandpints.bsky.social A social enterprise devoted to democratizing access to higher learning and providing scholars with new audiences.
Jess Clark @jesspclark.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain | Author of Scent and the Nation: Smell and Identity in Modern Britain (Spring 2027) and Business of Beauty (2020) | Co-editor at the Recipes Project | she/her | Views my own | #histgender #smellhistory
Craig Gallagher @kreggallagher.bsky.social Scottish émigré. Assistant Professor of History at Colby-Sawyer College. Early America, Early Modern Britain, Atlantic World.
Puppy raiser with Guiding Eyes for the Blind: https://www.guidingeyes.org/volunteer
Richard Hornsey @hornseyhq.bsky.social Teaches and researches modern British History. Nottingham and Brighton, UK. He/him.
Meredith Carroll @historicalmeredith.bsky.social Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
Sarah Mass @sarahmmass.bsky.social Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
Norah Schneider @nschneider03.bsky.social Disaster and hazard historian, but I like it all. Climate, hazards, society, and infrastructure. Natural & human made.
Always up for talking about cats, books, office supplies, reality tv, true crime, and pop culture.
New England Girl always! 💕
@atvetenstrand.bsky.social @atvetenstrand.bsky.social 
Miguel Angel Chavez @miguelchavez.bsky.social Historian // Assistant Prof. at Cumberland University / PhD @Vanderbilt.edu / historian of exploration and travelers in Africa, #histSTM, geography, and the British Empire 🗃️ // Texan and Chicano // views here are my own.
- miguelchavez.net
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
James Bailey @drjamesbailey.bsky.social Writer from Manchester. LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD, my biography of Muriel Spark, out now! 🐈⬛
https://lnk.to/LikeaCatLovesaBird
Instagram.com/drjamesbailey
Ian Webster @websterij.bsky.social PhDed at Exeter: Modernism and the Making of Macroeconomics. Having spent years doing less interesting stuff. Now time to figure out what to do next.
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anticolonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Sheila Liming @seeshespeak.bsky.social reader | writer | professor | Edith Wharton impersonator
Champlain College (Burlington, VT)
HANGING OUT — hardcover / audiobook / paperback / ebook https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/717263/hanging-out-by-sheila-liming/
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social Based in @ihr.bsky.social, @sasnews.bsky.social. Engaged, outward-facing and co-produced research into place and history: rural to urban & parish to metropolis. Home to Victoria County History & Layers of London. Posts by team.
Lynneth Miller Renberg @lmillerrenberg.bsky.social Associate Professor of History; FRHistS. Book review editor, Sixteenth Century Journal. Dance, movement, religion, gender, emotions 1200-1600, especially in northern Europe . Books: @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social and Routledge.
Dr Hannah Charnock @hannahcharnock.bsky.social Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
Dr Meg Kobza @fancyhistorian.bsky.social Historian & Author
📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026
🏃🏼♀️ Mother runner, coffee enthusiast
University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social Publishing voices that drive change & impact how people think. Founded in 1893. linkin.bio/ucpress
Amy Milne-Smith @amymilnesmith.bsky.social Historian. Prof @ Laurier. Researching masculinity, mental illness and Victorian soldiers at the moment. Once had things to say about London Clubland.
Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social Journal of British Studies is the publication of @thenacbs.bsky.social
and is the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages to the present.
Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer 🏳️⚧️, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder
I really dislike unsolicited advice.
Jacob Ivey @iveyhistorian.bsky.social Historian of the British Empire in South Africa and anti-apartheid movements in Florida.
Britain and the World @batw.bsky.social Official Bluesky account for Britain and the World. We are a group of scholars from around the world who share an interest in Britain and its engagements around the globe.
Learn more about us and become a member: https://britainandtheworld.org/
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
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.
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
Stefanie Shackleton, PhD @pauperhistorian.bsky.social Historian of class, labor, and gender in 19th century Britain, Ireland, and Empire. First-gen, non-traditional, DEI advocate. Also, old-school D&D nerd. 🏳️🌈
Modern British History Journal @mbhjournal.bsky.social https://academic.oup.com/tcbh
Modern British History publishes peer reviewed work in modern British history. We skeet our articles, reviews, and the latest British history news. Formerly 'Twentieth Century British History'.
Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social Reader in Early Modern History. Currently writing a cultural history of the English East India Company. He/Him. Immigrant. Academic. Father.
All opinions my own.
Claire L Jones @claireljones.bsky.social Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
kate wehwalt @katewagner.wehwalt.net Unheil-bringer. lithium prince. architecture critic @thenation.com
my blogs are https://late-review.com, https://wehwalt.net and mcmansionhell.com
she/they
Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social historian of religion, the supernatural, & gender in early modern Scotland | professor | views mine | she/her.
Steve Bentel @stevebentel.bsky.social Historian working in international education. Razorback Enthusiast. 
Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org he/him—textual technologies enthusiast—Associate Professor at UIUC's School of Information Sciences & Department of English—co-director of the Viral Texts Project (viraltexts.org) & Director @skeuomorphpress.org —also https://theanxiousbench.bandcamp.com
Rachel Monsey @rmonsey.bsky.social History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
Elizabeth Hameeteman @ehameeteman.bsky.social aka Liesbeth | PhD #EnvHist 💧 | founder of @envhistnow.bsky.social | proud auntie | she/her
Christopher Hilliard @chrhilli.bsky.social Challis Professor of History
@sydney_uni. Co-editor @TCBHjournal. Council @HumanitiesAU. Writes about history of censorship, popular intellectual life, racism.
🌈 Dr Ross Brooks @rossbrooks.co.uk Historian #histsci #queerhistory. DARWIN AND THE QUEER ORIGINS OF LIFE (Yale, 2026). Curator of queeroxford.info. LGBTQ+ life & culture. Classical music. Seaside living (near Brighton). He/him/they. rossbrooks.co.uk. Agent: www.philippasitters.co.uk.
Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social supporting researchers counting words in various ways with computers at university of arizona libraries; increasingly displaced new englander
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
Lance Richardson @lancerichardson.bsky.social Pulitzer finalist for TRUE NATURE: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. Writer-in-residence at the University of Minnesota. Teach in the Bennington MFA. www.lancenrichardson.com
Bernard T. Joy @bernardtjoy.bsky.social PhD from University of Glasgow. Literature, US culture/Southern US culture, William Faulkner, modernist studies, philosophy, visual art, genre fiction.