Dr Anna Jamieson
Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
@bemccollective.bsky.social
This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past! https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/
@veronicaheney.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Medical Humanities at Durham University, exploring narratives and experiences of madness, mental illness, and mental distress. Interested in stories and why we tell them.
@memoryplace.bsky.social
Led by Professor John Sutton and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
@drannaloismckay.bsky.social
Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things. Currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow @leverhulme.ac.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
@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
@jennybuckley.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Galway. Research: periodicals, fiction, material texts, sociability. Co-editing a book on character for Palgrave. Writing a book on periodicals for EUP.
@historicalmeredith.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor, Manchester University Press. Modern history and history of medicine. Michigander, lover of food and cats.
@benltjackson.bsky.social
Historian of 18C Britain | British Academy postdoc 'The Georgian Clergyman' at the John Rylands Research Institute UoM | 'Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England' out now: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526180605/
@julialaite.bsky.social
Teller of small stories. Professor of history at Birkbeck. Rider of bikes, grower of vegetables, Brook custodian & friend to three ducks. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick Newfoundlander; researching the island's history & the legacies of empire.
@robertstearn.bsky.social
PhD on early modern domestic service and skill from Birkbeck School of Arts, London. Sometime academic working on women's writing and non-elite writing in the 17th and 18th centuries. He/him
@annajpravdica.bsky.social
AHRC-Midlands4Cities funded History PhD at the University of Warwick, researching sincerity, deceit, and social identity in seventeenth- & eighteenth-century Britain 🎭 Also managing @nachemotion.bsky.social ✨ https://linktr.ee/annapravdica
@richardjansell.bsky.social
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. Forthcoming book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
@jasminekt.bsky.social
Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ship's surgeons. Lecturer in History, Cardiff University. Canine enthusiast.
@centreformh.bsky.social
Speaking up for social justice in mental health. Find out more https://www.centreformentalhealth.org.uk/
@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.
@sharrona.bsky.social
Professional nerd. Follows feminists. Forthcoming book: Do I Know You http://shorturl.at/apEIJ agent @mackenzieagency, bylines in various places, she/her/היא
@helenholmes.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology/Deputy Director of Sustainable Futures at university of Manchester. Interested in sustainable consumption, diverse economies, waste & disposal.
@socialbodiesuob.bsky.social
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/ @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social #bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
@evasurawy.bsky.social
History of OCD, clinical psychology, concepts, methods, evidence. Editor @the-polyphony.bsky.social
@rachelhewitt.bsky.social
Writing books about women, feminism, trauma, abuse, grief, recovery, joy, the great outdoors, running, sport, history, maps. Free weekly Substack: https://rachelhewitt.substack.com
@historicaljnl.bsky.social
The Historical Journal publishes papers on all aspects of British, European, and world history since the fifteenth century.
@helengoodman.bsky.social
Researcher of 19th-century literature, culture, and medicine ∣ health humanities ∣ the body ∣ mental health ∣ history of emotions ∣ Also interested in #fibromyalgia #chronicpain #FND |she/her
@zoethomas.bsky.social
Historian researching work, gender, & the arts in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
@jillburke.bsky.social
Author, historian, occasional curator - of art, material culture, bodies, beauty/cosmetics, 1400-1700 esp Italy. Research Director @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social, senior fellow Turin Humanities Programme, committee member @srsrensoc.bsky.social
@drjesscampbell.bsky.social
Historian of Medicine 📚 Psychiatry, Madness, Mental Health, The Arts & Experience. Project Manager @HubMetPsych
@victorianhand.bsky.social
@ukri.org AHRC Standard Research Grant project (2024-28) exploring historical & contemporary understandings of the human hand. Hosted by @lcflondon.bsky.social & @lancasteruni.bsky.social & co-led by @jbhist.bsky.social & medhistoryman.bsky.social
@dremilyvincent.bsky.social
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
@drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Mental Health at the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Ulster University Historian of Psychosurgery, Lobotomies, Millies and Medicine Working Class | Neurodivergent | Mad
@sacrobosco.bsky.social
Historian, Professor, author of Policing Pregnant Bodies (Hopkins, 2024)
@historianjen.bsky.social
Reader in Early Modern History at Uni of Herts. Working on reproductive histories and pregnancy loss. SHS committee member Also likes baking cakes
@amywilsonstorey.bsky.social
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com Babiesinmuseums.com
@jemimahubberstey.bsky.social
Research on the literary culture of the c18th country house. Garden rambler, book hoarder, coffee fiend, art dabbler, and servant to my cat. Views own.
@ellasbaraini.bsky.social
Junior research fellow at St John's College Cambridge. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
@willemijnruberg.bsky.social
associate professor in Cultural History at Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/staff/WGRuberg. History of law, gender, body, culture. Research Network for Culture, Law and the Body (@culturelawbody.bsky.social).
@majben.bsky.social
Historian at C2DH (University of Luxembourg) Mainly publishing on the history of psychiatry and the history of the financial place in Luxembourg
@drbeldavis.bsky.social
Historian @ Natural History Museum, research on repro history, nat history, collections. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/people/isabel-davis.html Book: Conceiving Histories: Trying for Pregnancy, Past & Present MIT Press. 🐁 lover (someone's got to be).
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@jadefrench.bsky.social
✏️ Leverhulme ECR researching modernist/post-war lit, ageing, emotions and care at Loughborough University. 🧶 Co-founder of arts platform Decorating Dissidence 📖 Modernist Poetics of Ageing (OUP, 2025): https://shorturl.at/ytErF
@rfleetwood-smith.bsky.social
Creative researcher / textile artist Arts, design & health
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social
International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Société internationale d'étude du dix-huitième siècle. http://www.isecs.org
@stinaface.bsky.social
Teaching film and writing at U Birmingham. Co-Convenor BAFTSS Adaptation SIG (https://bsky.app/profile/adaptationsig.bsky.social) and MHHRN (mhhrn.bham.ac.uk). Podcast: B Film Queer Pod 🏳️🌈(https://tinyurl.com/2bbw5ywd)
@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/
@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 ⛱
@emeccwarwick.bsky.social
The Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre In the Warwick History Department, for the encouragement, study, and exchange of ideas and research. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ecc
@drclaireocall.bsky.social
Writer. Literary & cultural historian. Expert: Brontës, esp.Emily + Sarah Waters. 📖EMILY BRONTË REAPPRAISED 👩🏼💻Editor @brontestudies ✨🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/drclaireocall