Benjamin Bland
Historian trying to survive the times and write/research on identity, race, popular culture, cities, memory, and politics.
Currently Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at University of Reading.
@drrochellerowe.bsky.social
Author & historian of race, gender, beauty & performance. Lectures in Black British History at University of Edinburgh Book: Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions agent: @WatsonLittle
@drdomdavies.bsky.social
Academic & author, Imperial Infrastructure (2017), Urban Comics (2019), The Broken Promise of Infrastructure (2023), Graphic Refuge (2025). More info: www.drdomdavies.com. Thinking Through Infrastructure Network @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social
@grahammacklin.bsky.social
Historian @crexuio.bluesky.social University of Oslo. Interested in the far right, fascism & terrorism. I co-edit Routledge’s Fascism & the Far Right book series: https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Studies-in-Fascism-and-the-Far-Right/book-series/FFR
@ejwestuk.bsky.social
Fixed gear enthusiast. Dog walker extraordinaire. Historian of the Black Press and other things.
@katrinanavickas.bsky.social
Historian of protest, political movements and public space. Preorder my new book, Contested Commons: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons Croydon/Rochdale UCU rep Rural modernism on Insta. 🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally. She/her
@smawdsley.bsky.social
Historian of modern American medicine and disability Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
@drdominicdean.bsky.social
Researcher, teacher and author (most recently of Killing Children in British Fiction from SUNY Press, 2024). I work on contemporary British fiction and film, children, Ishiguro, migration, and intergenerational conflict. Based in Sussex. Own views.
@drsmorgan.com
Settler De/colonialism, Indigenous Cinemas, Settler National Cinemas (CANZUS). Settler kid, raised on Peramangk country. Programming: londonaustfilm.com Teaching: @kingsfilmstudies.bsky.social
@priyanka-zylstra.bsky.social
Historian 📚 Doctoral candidate at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | Studies South Asian migration, British Empire, women’s history, labor and resistance histories
@evehayes123.bsky.social
Research Training @ihr.bsky.social & School of Advanced Study | Caribbean Seminars @ilcs.bsky.social | Book: 'Legal Identity, Race & Belonging' https://shorturl.at/aS41x Research Training: https://shorturl.at/ojO2C Profile: https://shorturl.at/sKiXa
@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 ⛱
@lucycann.bsky.social
PhD @BirkbeckHCA looking at intersections of race and sex work in late twentieth century Britain. AHRC funded. she/her.
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
@harbottlestores.bsky.social
- Lecturer in History of Science & Medicine/Senior Teaching Fellow in Medical Humanities at Imperial College London - Headpress promo gal @headpress.com - Fan of nasty films and nasty music - Author (as Jennifer Wallis) -
@qmucu.bsky.social
Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
@discodiscourse.bsky.social
University of Liverpool. I tend to write about discourse, argumentation & racism. Editor of Critical Discourse Studies. Website, for all your John-related needs >> https://johnerichardson.wixsite.com/home ORCID: 0000-0003-1251-8184
@simonbriercliffe.bsky.social
Historian at the Black Country Museum and elsewhere: talk to me about the Black Country, Shropshire, modern and local British history, the Irish in Britain, museums, local heritage and all stops in between. Baby gaeilgeoir. https://simonbriercliffe.com/
@georgedevans93.bsky.social
Historian of the British Empire, Ireland and the Second World War, University of Edinburgh.
@maryburke.bsky.social
Race Politics & Irish America (OxfordUP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW JuanitaCasey "HorseOfSelene"Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Irish/Irish-U.S. identities & cultures/ #irishresearch https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burke
@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.
@kyle-harvey.bsky.social
Historian & researcher based in Naarm/Melbourne. Interested in migration, media, radicalism, oral history, & memory in AU/NZ/US/Pacific.
@rgf26.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Uni of Kent researching the Hostile Environment and Migration | Author: ‘(Re)framing Women’ | Views my own | She/Her 🩷💜💙
@rachaelgilmour.bsky.social
Professor of English at QMUL. Literature, language politics, and social justice. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/sed/staff/gilmourr.html
@deannalyncook.bsky.social
PhD: Caribbean children in the British colonial education system, 1940-1985 @QMHistory. Podcaster: The History Hotline. Isaiah 54:17 🇯🇲
@oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social
Politics of complexion in Black Britain, 1920-85 (PhD) | Doctoral Fellow at the IHR and Teaching Associate at QMUL | Historian of the Lascelles Caribbean archive at Harewood House | She/her 🇰🇳🇮🇳☬
@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social
The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest.
@jchaeberlen.bsky.social
Historian of beautiful actions. PhD from UChicago. Past at U Warwick, future teacher (Hist&Eng) in Berlin. Personal Homepage: https://joachimhaeberlen.com/ My book on Protesting in Post-War Europe: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011/beauty-is-in-the-
@rhysowens.bsky.social
Former imperial historian specialising in India and social history. Job market didn't work out so now I am very happily employed working for an MP
@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
@andrewriley-001.bsky.social
Archivist. Works on modern political papers. (Views are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.)
@saracaputo.bsky.social
History Senior Research Fellow & Director of Studies at Magdalene College, Cambridge; British Academy PDRF. Histories of maritime labour, mapping, and medicine (Britain, France, Spain, & Italy). https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sara-caputo
@proflrobinson.bsky.social
@timwrite.net
I write, edit, and I cook for a living. I have worked in Digital Accessibility. Use Alt Text, please. Learning Gaeilge LFGM My first novel here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08YZ11TGP My other fiction here https://timwrite.net
@dremmaparker.bsky.social
Lecturer in Lit & Gender, Uni of Bristol 📚Author: Life Writing & the End of Empire (24) https://bit.ly/4aoZrru 📝Co-editor: Janet Frame at 100 (25), British Culture After Empire (23) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159748/ Views my own
@rememberlop.bsky.social
Posting random bits & bobs here to help keep alive the memory of Leeds Other Paper (1974-1994), possibly the greatest little newspaper in the world. This account is maintained, after a fashion, by @writerlytone.bsky.social
@hopenothate.org.uk
The UK’s leading campaign group against the far right | Promoted by Nick Lowles on behalf of HOPE not hate LTD at 167-169 Great Portland St, 5th Floor, W1W 5PF. 🔗 https://hopenothate.org
@plutopress.bsky.social
An independent publisher of radical, left‐wing non‐fiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world. http://kickstarter.com/projects/plutopress/billionaires-and-guillotines?ref=18tcsy plutobooks.com
@thejamtarts.bsky.social
🇱🇻 Yes, this really is 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐈𝐄 🏴 Edinburgh's oldest and most successful football club 🫶 The UK's largest fan-owned club 💻 heartsfc.co.uk
@roadburnfest.bsky.social
Europe’s leading (underground) festival for heavy music of all types. Roadburn 2025 April 17 - 20, Tilburg, The Netherlands.
@gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social
Archive in North London co-founded by John La Rose and Sarah White among others. Testimony to the activism, creativity and resilience of members of the Caribbean, Asian, African communities of the UK and abroad. https://linktr.ee/thegpi
@sadiahqureshi.bsky.social
Historian of science, race, and empire. Vanished: An Unnatural History of Extinction an FT recommended book to read in 2025. Published by Penguin on 5 June, World Environment Day.🦤🐅🦈 🌏🌱 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309254/vanished-by-qureshi-sadi
@southstreetarts.bsky.social
South Street is an Arts Centre in Reading, Berkshire presenting a range of performing arts including theatre, music, comedy and live literature. linktr.ee/southstreetarts
@nesrinemalik.bsky.social
Columnist and features writer - The Guardian. Georgetown Fellow.