Aaron Ackerley
Modern British History. Press and Media. Empire. Economics. Knowledge and Power.
Lecturer in British Studies, University of Oslo
@mgrnt.bsky.social
Historian - University of Essex (currently Head of School, Philosophical, Historical, and Interdisciplinary Studies)
@mileendinstitute.bsky.social
The Mile End Institute at Queen Mary University of London brings together politicians, policymakers, researchers, students and the public to discuss the major challenges facing British politics, policymaking and public life.
@drkristopherlovell.bsky.social
Assistant Professor and Course Director (MA History) at Coventry Uni. A specialist on war, media and journalism and C20th British politics and society. Deaf.
@jonathanhopkin.bsky.social
Professor of the Political Economy of Europe at LSE. Interested in democratic representation and inequality in the rich democracies (and the US). Author of Anti-System Politics (OUP, 2020). Also random thoughts on football, cycling, the weather etc
@craigpberry.bsky.social
Welfare policy manager, Citizens Advice (he/him). Additionally: Associate at @bennettinstitute.bsky.social | Author of The Political Economy Blog: https://craigberry.substack.com
@narson.bsky.social
Historian and archivist. Working on far right and antifascism post1945, research/archive ethics and pedagogy. Work and teach at an English university. Liberal, nerdy and often under attack from his cat.
@neilwarner.bsky.social
Researcher in political sociology at LSE. Interested in history & political economy of socialist parties and labour movements, economic policy ideas including socialisation of investment & economic democracy.
@aaronreeves.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology, LSE - http://aaronreeves.org/ - New Book: Born to Rule: https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674257719
@samfriedman.bsky.social
Professor at LSE Sociology, Co-Editor British Journal of Sociology. Research: class, culture, elites, social mobility. Books: Born to Rule, The Class Ceiling, Comedy and Distinction
@ladyburglar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Reviews Editor for Social History. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
@alanallport.bsky.social
Dr. Walter Montgomery & Marian Gruber Professor of History, Syracuse, NY. https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/directory/alan-allport Husband, dad, scouser, gobby. Demobbed (2009), Browned Off & Bloody-Minded (2015), Britain at Bay (2020), Advance Britannia (2025)
@ellencssmith.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain and colonial South Asia, postdoc, University of Bristol. Interested in all things letters, India, family history, memory https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/ellen-smith
@luciejones83.bsky.social
Victorian historian at a UK post-92. Usually lost in the past & admin. Slowly writing book on British settlement houses 1880-1920. Looks at home, & gender. Interested in pedagogy, & disability in higher education. Dyslexic/dyspraxic. Her/she.
@kathrynrix.bsky.social
Assistant Editor of the History of Parliament's House of Commons, 1832-1945 project. Cambridge/London.
@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
@edowens.bsky.social
Royal historian, broadcaster & author of books on the British monarchy incl: "After Elizabeth" & "The Family Firm". TV/film incl: BBC, Ch4, CNN, Netflix https://edowens.com/ https://www.northbanktalent.com/ Currently: education, IBDP & critical thinking
@timbale.bsky.social
Professor of Politics at Queen Mary University of London & author of The Conservative Party after Brexit: Turmoil and Transformation (out in pbk soon!). The bits and pieces I do for websites and newspapers turn up eventually at https://proftimbale.com
@econmarshall.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Utah. Senior Fellow in Higher Education Finance, Jain Family Institute. Aging enfant terrible.
@vanessahistory.bsky.social
History prof @ Yale, writing book on history of offshore capitalism and tax havens. Also feminism, climate emergency, LGBTQ+. Obsessed road and gravel cyclist 🏳️🌈
@tomaashby.bsky.social
Historian • Soon JSPS Fellow @utokyoofficial.bsky.social nominated @britishacademy.bsky.social • Reviews Ed @global-ih.bsky.social • Co-org @gpolthought.bsky.social • PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social • the English republic • England & Sengoku/Edo Japan • autistic
@jecfree.bsky.social
Historian @ QMUL, feminist, researching reproductive justice in German history, previously Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism (2022), she/her
@millieqed.bsky.social
Historian, Univ. Southern Denmark, working on the history of the British Welfare State. Erstwhile Birmingham, Warwick, LSHTM.
@duncanbell.bsky.social
Teaches politics & history at Cambridge. Interests include empire, war, technology, architecture, science fiction, utopia. Currently writing a book on transhumanism
@christinegrandy.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data usage and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
@crexuio.bsky.social
Center for Research on Extremism (C-REX): The Extreme Right, Hate Crime, and Political Violence, @statsvitenskap.bsky.social, @uio.no
@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
@katemond.bsky.social
Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
@colmpm.bsky.social
Historian of UK and ROI politics and political economy. Lecturer at QMUL and Deputy Director of Mile End Institute (https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/staff/profiles/murphycolm.html). Book on Labour and 'modernisation' (https://tinyurl.com/37tzatvk).
@aaronwinter.bsky.social
Sociologist at Lancaster University working on Racism,Terrorism & the Far Right. Co-ed of @identitiesjournal.bsky.social. Co-author of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism & the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream (Verso) with Aurelien Mondon
@aurelmondon.bsky.social
Researching the mainstreaming of reactionary/far-right politics Co-convenor of @reacpolrn.bsky.social Reactionary Democracy w. @aaronwinter.bsky.social and co-editor of The Ethics of Researching the Far Right Full profile: https://shorturl.at/CiYKm
@jfarkas.bsky.social
Assistant Professor. Author of 'Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy' (https://t.ly/1JHye), University of Copenhagen, Firstgen 🎓. he/him. Free access to my work: http://www.johanfarkas.com/research
@thatdocphoenix.com
That writer guy you like. Bi, trans, polyamorous, slutty, neurodivergent, hot. Buy my book that explains why politics has gone weird. I live in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK. https://linktr.ee/iheartpolitics
@heiditworek.bsky.social
Prof @ UBC. Canada Research Chair in history and policy of communications. Director @ubcdemocracy.bsky.social Co-editor of Journal of Global History. Senior fellow @ Centre for International Governance Innovation
@jonesemily.bsky.social
Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. Writing a book about the Disraeli myth and One Nation.
@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.
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@garylove.bsky.social
Professor of British History & Culture @NTNU, Trondheim. Researching history of British Conservatism & centre-right internationalism in Europe/ the world; Genres of political writing in Modern Britain; & women in British politics
@davidedgerton.bsky.social
Historian, currently at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. https://www.davidedgerton.org/
@emmalbriant.bsky.social
International Expert on #Propaganda; Visiting Assoc Prof, University of Notre Dame; Fellow, Bard College, US; Associate @ U of Cambridge, UK; Owner Maven of Persuasion LLC; Speaker; Snr Researcher Oscar-shortlisted The Great Hack on #CambridgeAnalytica. 🐕
@pastpunditry.bsky.social
Historian of conservatism, media, and the presidency at Vanderbilt. Author of PARTISANS & MESSENGERS OF THE RIGHT. Cohost of @thisdaypod.com from Radiotopia. Frequently posting on IG stories @pastpundit
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social
Investigative journalist. Author of best-selling book Democracy for Sale - and best-selling newsletter of same name. Sign up for Democracy for Sale newsletter: https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
@ewangibbs.bsky.social
Historian of work, energy, industry and protest. Author of Coal Country. Now writing the Unmaking of the British Working Class. Not getting that much more right wing as I get older.
@petermandler.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
@jeetheer.bsky.social
Columnist, The Nation: https://www.thenation.com/authors/jeet-heer/ Podcast: The Time of Monsters: https://www.thenation.com/content/time-of-monsters/
@digivictorian.bsky.social
Historian • Broadcaster • Victorian Pop Culture • Presenter of 'Killing Victoria' on BBC Sounds 🎙️ • www.bobnicholson.co.uk
@mooresci.bsky.social
Contemporary History Person - Histories of activism and suchlike. Malvern dweller, Bham worker. Trier. Proper info here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/moores-chris.aspx