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
Dr Mark Purcell @camlibresearch.bsky.social Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Libraries and Archives and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
Sahil Dutta @sahildutta.bsky.social Political Economist at City Uni
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social A peer-reviewed Taylor & Francis academic journal exploring the British Empire, the Commonwealth, and wider colonialism.
EIC @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
AE @yiannicart.bsky.social
BRE @evansmithhist.bsky.social
CDE @jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Institute for Public Policy Research @ippr.org IPPR is the UK’s leading progressive think tank.
Find out more here: linktr.ee/IPPR
Past Present Future Podcast @ppfideas.bsky.social The History of Ideas Podcast. Every Wednesday and Sunday with David Runciman. Wherever you get your podcasts.
Find us at 🔗 www.ppfideas.com
Richard Seymour @leninology.bsky.social Author of many books, Salvage editorial collective. Find my writings at Guardian, New Statesman, NYT, Jacobin, TLS, LRB, etc. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/richardseymourwtf
Nima Paidipaty @paidipaty.bsky.social Lecturer (Asst Prof) in Comparative Political Economy, Kings College London
EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social https://emily613.substack.com/
Freddie Hayward @freddiehayward.bsky.social US Correspondent at the New Statesman. Based in Washington, DC. 
Luke Herrine @lookheron.bsky.social Asst Prof, Alabama Law. Formerly: LPE Blog, Debt Collective.
Consumer law, consumer finance, market governance, law and political economy
Tom Stevenson @tomstevenson.bsky.social Foreign correspondent. Contributing Editor @lrb.co.uk
tomfstevenson@gmail.com
https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/products/2978-someone-else-s-empire
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
National Endowment for the Humanities @nehgov.bsky.social A federal agency, National Endowment for the Humanities supports research, preservation, public programs, and education in the humanities. Reposts ≠ endorsements.
Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race https://www.mmor.co.uk Author https://upittpress.org/books/9780822945604
Politics_Oxford @politicsoxford.bsky.social The Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford
Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social I teach sociology at the University of Glasgow and my interests are learning, teaching, books, ideas, culture and music.
Ben Schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social Writer: 84th Oscars, Letterman, The Nation, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, The Baffler, Air Mail, Emmy nominee, NEH Public Scholar, and author of way too many posts. rep: WME #WGAW letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1lq09
Aaron Timms @aarontimms.bsky.social Seriously, get the sourdough pancakes
Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian & southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own - cult classic, not best seller - DMs will, alas, remain unread
Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social Historian of Modern Europe
| poverty & inequality, centre & periphery, health & housing in c19 France🏠🏚️🇫🇷 | Tired dad | posts represent my views | He/him
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/will-clement
Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.
Onni Gust @onnigust.bsky.social Historian of colonialism, trans life, human/animal boundary at Uni of Nottingham. Queer, feminist, trans. They/them.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
James Connelly @jamescon.bsky.social Emeritus Prof. Writing Collingwood bio / philosophy, environment, electoral systems / Notts County. J.Connelly@hull.ac.uk / https://hull.academia.edu/JamesConnelly / rail campaigner https://www.minstersrail.com
Hilary Buxton @hbuxton.bsky.social Bodies, care + medicine in the British Empire // Associate Professor of History @ Kenyon College // Disabled Empire: The Colonial Body in First World War Britain (U Chicago Press, 2026)
The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
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
Stephen Brooke @sjbrooke.bsky.social Historian|20th Century Britain|London
Liam Ryan @liamryan2788.bsky.social Historian at University of Oxford. Political history, socialism, neoliberalism and the history of the Conservative Party. Finishing a book on the history of British anti-socialism
John Nott @jdnott.bsky.social Economic & medical historian on https://www.epidemy.sps.ed.ac.uk/ at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/between-feast-and-famine/
Editor of: https://intellectbooks.com/making-sense-of-medicine
James Butler @piercepenniless.bsky.social Writes & talks @lrb.co.uk
stefanihrig.bsky.social @stefanihrig.bsky.social History prof @ Haifa University, head of Haifa Center for German & European Studies, co-editor Journal of Holocaust Research, author of "Germans & Turks" (2026) www.stefanihrig.com
Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social Vulgar Marxist, Kentucky proud, fuck work. She/her
anniemcclanahan.com
Hettie O’Brien @hettieobrien.bsky.social Writer at the Guardian: First Edition and Guardian Long Reads | Author of THE ASSET CLASS
Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social Cozy random passages from Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad books. Posts auto-delete.
Rothermere American Institute @raioxford.bsky.social The RAI is a Department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of the USA. Check out our podcast, The Last Best Hope with our Director, Professor Adam Smith!
https://www.rai.ox.ac.uk/
Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/
Granta @grantamag.bsky.social The Magazine of New Writing.
https://granta.com/
Lydia Wilson @lsmwilson.bsky.social Culture editor, New Lines magazine. Writer. https://newlinesmag.com/writers/lydia-wilson/ 
Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
Hugh Pemberton @hugh-pemberton.bsky.social Recent British history is my thing (political, governmental, economic); armchair strategic studies my secret vice. Emeritus Prof at Bristol. Sometime historian of the UK civil service, more recently of Thatcherism. But often on my allotment these days
Verena Halsmayer @vhalsmayer.bsky.social historian of economic knowledge/ modeling/ planning @univie.ac.at
website: https://tinyurl.com/55ayxyxm
Hannah Rosefield @hannahrosefield.bsky.social editing at The Dial and elsewhere
sometime Victorianist, London Library emerging writer 25/26
Nabil Salih @nabilsalih.bsky.social A writer and photographer from Baghdad: @lrb.co.uk, @nybooks.com, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, @bostonreview.bsky.social
and elsewhere. PhD candidate @gvagrad.bsky.social.
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social Associate Professor in water law, focusing on water justice & river rights.
Member, Birrarung Council, voice of the living river.
Settler on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country.
Views are my own.
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/525453-erin-o'donnell
Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social Author of the newly released, The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide, and previously of Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World. See: https://about.me/howardwfrench.com
Chris Millard @chrismillard83.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain: self-harm, suicide, child abuse, concepts of personal experience, vicarious trauma. (he/him)
Books on "self-harm" (2015) and "personal experience" (2026) - co-edited book on "sources in the history of psychiatry" (2022)
Michael Allen @ma-allen.com IR Scholar Professor• War, US Foreign Policy, Basing, Troop Deployments, Data, and Political Economy • @boisestate • International Relations • SciFi • Gaming • www.ma-allen.com • https://tinyurl.com/GoogleScholarAllen
Women's Prize @womensprize.bsky.social Charity changing the world through books written by women📚
Women's Prize for Fiction and Non-Fiction supported by Audible, Baileys, Findmypast
🔗 linktr.ee/womensprize
Michael Chessum @michaelchessum.bsky.social Socialist writer and activist /// 📕 book - This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left /// ecosocialist Green, candidate for Brixton Acre Lane /// Personal account, all views my own.
Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social Public policy editor based in the Britain section at The Economist
Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social ehs.org.uk
Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social EconProf, UMass Amherst
Robinson, Keynes, Meiksins Wood, Rothschild & Matthöfer Prizes | Harvard Associate in Research | 2023 TIME100 Next
@redgillett.bsky.social @redgillett.bsky.social 
Rose Dryzek @rosedryzek.bsky.social Historian researching activism around home-based work
Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social Tax, redistribution, welfare states, digitalisation, cultural studies. Prof of Culture & Economy, UAL. PI Redistributive Imaginaries https://redigim.arts.ac.uk/
Dep ed @newformations.bsky.social
https://researchers.arts.ac.uk/114-rebecca-bramall
Matt Thompson @mattthompson.bsky.social • full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett)
• spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly)
• first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social Ex-Financial Times Assistant Editor. Ex-editor Scotland on Sunday. Author of 'Made in Manchester' and 'Northerners: A History'. 'These Isles' due Feb 2026.
Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social Historian of medicine, gender, & politics. Executive Editor Emerita, @nursingclio.
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-nursing-clio-reader/9781978838598/
Forthcoming Book: Doctoring the West: Women Physicians & the Politics & Practice of Medicine
Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth;views my own. Author, 'Capital w/out Borders' https://shorturl.at/bGsLB and 'Offshore' https://shorturl.at/rTacl; words
@washingtonpost.com, @nytimes.com, the Atlantic & the Guardian.
All at brookeharrington.com
Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social Historian. Writer.
Emily Cuming @emilycuming.bsky.social Associate Professor in Literature and Cultural History; author of Maritime Relations (CUP, 2025) and Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing (CUP, 2016)
https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
@faisaldevji.bsky.social @faisaldevji.bsky.social 
Fadzilah Yahaya @nfyahaya.bsky.social Historian at Yale
Writing book on history of land reclamation in British Empire https://debris.substack.com
Nick Srnicek @nsrnicek.bsky.social Author of 'Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI': https://amzn.eu/d/aZKYWsA
Steve Fisher @stevefisher.bsky.social Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, University of Oxford. https://electionsetc.com
https://substack.com/@stevefisheroxford
Koch History Centre @khc-oxford.bsky.social A new institutional home in Oxford for the pursuit of world-class historical research, housed in Wadham College and the Faculty of History.
https://khc.web.ox.ac.uk/
Image credit: ©OUImages/John Cairns Photography
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/
Beth Kitson @drbethkitson.bsky.social Research Associate, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Public Policy | Economics and History | Knowledge and Engagement
Geoff Mann @geoffmann.bsky.social 
New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social Left-wing journal of ideas covering world politics, global economy, movements, theory, history, culture and more.
Website: https://newleftreview.org
Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social Global tax politics, economic sociology, political economy, equality. Department of Sociology, Maynooth University, Ireland
Peter Mandler @petermandler.bsky.social Historian. Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Henry Miller @henryjmiller.bsky.social Historian at Dept of Humanities, Northumbria Uni. Interests: modern British history; political / social history; petitions / ing generally
https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/m/henry-miller/
Sarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social Radiant ambiguity/unclassified residuum/ enigmatic relief/seasoned harridan (historian of age, gender, reproduction, opinions my own and not my employer’s etc.)
https://www.colby.edu/people/people-directory/sarah-duff/
Max Long @maxlong.bsky.social Historian of the environment, science, and popular culture in modern Britain.
The History and Political Economy Project @hpe-project.bsky.social hpeproject.org
Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine.
PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu
Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.
Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social Historian at Brown University: https://history.brown.edu/people/seth-e-rockman Author of _Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery_ Nov. 2024, https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo237040605.html 
Kate Smith @kateesthersmith.bsky.social Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
John Aerni-Flessner @lesothojohn.bsky.social Prof African History MSU
White Gold: https://tinyurl.com/ymt64kfz
Dreams for Lesotho: http://undpress.nd.edu/9780
Publications here: https://tinyurl.com/ynvwp6c5
MSU FS Chair 2026-27
Lesotho, development, borders, running, Michigan
Views my own
Prof. Anthea Butler @antheabutler.bsky.social Senior Koch Fellow, Wadham College, Oxford. Emerita Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, Penn. Ride or die Eagles fan, traveler and gin drinker.
Sarah Bellows-Blakely @bellowsblakely.bsky.social Historian at Freie Universität Berlin | 📕 Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of Africa, Europe, gender, knowledge, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure
@dsj2110.bsky.social @dsj2110.bsky.social Assistant Prof at Wesleyan University
Interview series for The Nation
Essays and reviews editor at
Modern Intellectual History
Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social Associate Professor (Reader), soas @soasuni.bsky.social, researching Palestine/Israel history. Race, migration, material culture, Antisemitism. "City in Fragments" (Stanford 2020) Currently working on Ashkenazi integration in the Arab Levant
Kristoffer Ekberg @krekberg.bsky.social Researcher and teacher at Lund University, climate obstruction/ anti-environmentalism, energy history, utopia and cornucupianism. Relapsed skateboarder. Book: "Climate obstruction" https://t.ly/DS_Ja
William Cullerne Bown @williamcb.bsky.social Research, technology and politics.
Newsletter https://bit.ly/3AELZDu
Foundations of AI https://bit.ly/3WiYJab
Law https://bit.ly/40YL1fU
Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social Environmental historian. Author of ‘Electric Wind: An Energy History of Modern Britain’ https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182937/
Co-Ed of Environmental Humanities journal.
Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social 
Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social Historian of ideas and culture, hovering between the 18th century and the 21st - and between Oxford, Berlin and London. https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/associate-professor-avi-lifschitz
Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social Author of Indian Sex Life (Princeton University Press, 2020) &
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press, 2026). writing gender history in the time of gender ideology.
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
@parapraxismag.bsky.social @parapraxismag.bsky.social 
Thomas Holland @tjholland.bsky.social Research Fellow, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/thomas-j-holland
Arthur Asseraf @arthurasseraf.bsky.social historian
colonialism | media | Orangina
One of those Jews for a free Palestine you keep hearing about
James McDougall @jamesrmcd.bsky.social Teaches history, writes stuff, is in theatres whenever possible.
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.