Dr Caitlín Smith
PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine
Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
@physiciansgallery.bsky.social
A free museum and library exploring the science and humanity of medicine at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Sign up to our newsletter www.rcpe.ac.uk/newsletter
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site. www.auschwitz.org | lesson.auschwitz.org | podcast.auschwitz.org
@vaginamuseum.bsky.social
World's first bricks and mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynae anatomy. Website: https://www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/ Other social links: https://beacons.ai/v_museum
@loladickinson.bsky.social
historian, PhD @BirkbeckUoL on sex work, public health and HIV/AIDS in late 20thc Britain 🍞🌹 she/her 🍉
@genderandhistory.bsky.social
Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
@mariacannon.bsky.social
Historian of the family, life cycle, and emotions in early modern England currently working on life in blended families. Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth
@charlrwalker.bsky.social
Qualitative researcher working in public health, mental health and criminology. Investigating the impact of the cost of living crisis on infant feeding. Lived experience of bipolar. Living in Wales https://charlottewalker.uk/ ORCID 0000-0003-2244-350X
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them
@stuartbro.bsky.social
PhD Researcher • QUB Belfast • Economic History • Banking History • Business History • Irish History • Irish in America • Scots-Irish in Baltimore • Alex Brown & Sons • Brown Brothers & Co 📍 Belfast / London
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@nmireland.bsky.social
Ireland’s premier cultural institution and home to the greatest collection of Irish heritage, culture and history. Free admission.
@infinite-women.com
Allison Tyra: Creator of a database of 6700+ women's biographies, author of Uncredited: Women's Overlooked, Misattributed & Stolen Work (infinite-women.com/books), cat lady, AuDHD. She/her www.infinite-women.com
@routledgehistory.bsky.social
We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
@elainefarrell.bsky.social
Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook
@tortietabby.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and gender in modern Ireland. Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. I work on #histmed, reproductive health, and activism. Cat lover. 🐈 she/her. https://www.strath.ac.uk/staff/proflaurakelly/
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics.
@irishhistorians.bsky.social
The Irish Committee of Historical Sciences is the national committee for history in Ireland. Further details: http://www.historians.ie/
@badbridgetbook.bsky.social
Research project led by Elaine Farrell (Queen's Uni Belfast) & Leanne McCormick (Ulster Uni) exploring the lives of Irish women in 19th & 20th-century North America who ended up in trouble with the law. Book | Podcast | Exhibition@Ulster American Folk Park
@museumofchildhood.bsky.social
museumofchildhood.ie Est 2018. Groundbreaking first for Ireland. Award winning Historic to contemporary, Islandwide and Diaspora, museum of children and childhood. Championing every child. Charity: 20205452 #SeenAndHeard #CherishingAllTheChildren
@seanoconnellqub.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British and Irish Social History at Queen’s University Belfast. Co-Chair of the Truth Recovery Independent Panel on Mother and Baby Institutions, Magdalene Laundries and Workhouses in Northern Ireland, 1922-1995.
@srhgroup-itm.bsky.social
Research group focusing on sexual, reproductive, maternal and child health, including HIV and STIs https://www.itg.be/en/research/research-group/sexual-and-reproductive-health-research-group
@marg50.bsky.social
Feminist historian. Latest book ‘Rebel Women: Cumann na mBan in Belfast and the Glens of Antrim 1914-1924’ - contact publishers [email protected].
@kellieturtle.bsky.social
Policy & engagement older people. Equality & rights. Health & social care. Faith & abortion. Reproductive Justice. Antiracist community-building. Trans rights. Free Palestine. Opinions expressed in a personal not professional capacity. she/her
@irishhistsoc.bsky.social
https://www.irishhistoricalstudies.ie/irish-historical-society/
@idamilne.bsky.social
Historian unashamedly obsessive about anything to do with 1918-19 flu pandemic. Or weissbier. Also interested in history ofepidemics, vaccination, southern Irish Protestant identity, newspapers, oral history, current affairs…and I love good company.
@drdeefoley.bsky.social
Historian at Trinity College Dublin, researching women’s working lives in twentieth-century Ireland. Funded by Research Ireland. Teaching about inequality keeps me going. 💋🇮🇪 she/her [email protected]
@lauramca.bsky.social
Irish Academic, archaeologist, heritage, memory, creative at UC Cork. Interest in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean.
@tomhulme.bsky.social
Reader in History (Queen's University, Belfast). "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation" (coming Apr 2026, Cornell University Press). PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Sec. of UCU branch. 🏳️🌈
@shannondevlin.bsky.social
Historian of siblings, the Irish family, networking and sociability in 19th-C Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway
@earner.bsky.social
Professor of Contemporary Irish History, Trinity College Dublin She/her
@judybolger.bsky.social
Historian. 19th century Irish social history: poverty, motherhood, breastfeeding 🤱
@clartyclara.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of modern British childhood, gender, the family, welfare.
@delaycara.bsky.social
Historian of reproduction and women's health studying abortion in Ireland and the American south. WGST professor at the University of South Carolina
@samuelguthrie.bsky.social
Public/oral historian, working with community & placemaking in Belfast. Former projects inc. British Red Cross, Ionad na Fuiseogie, St Matthew's 150th, & Mid Ulster Council. Currently researching & writing about postmemory & identity thru rugby league.
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer in history at QUB. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
@kristinwh0.bsky.social
Historian of sex, gender and medicine 🪴 she/her Horror fan ⚰️ tattoo connoisseur 👻 mother of cats (Salem and Binx) 🐈⬛♥️ #histmed #genderhistory #histsex 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
@notsecretgarden.bsky.social
Writing about love & politics at Queen's University Belfast 💘 | Writing in UKRI Future Leaders Fellow | PI on 'Acts_of_Union' | All views personal.
@sarahbaccianti.bsky.social
Research Manager @NatMuseumsNI - Heritage|Museums|Research / Former academic-Medieval Scandinavia:Science|Medicine|Food/RT≠endorsements/Opinions all mine/Swiss
@leannecalvert.bsky.social
Historian of the Family working on Sexualities, Religion, & Gender in Ireland & the Atlantic World. Like dogs? Meet Frank 🐶 Belfast 🔁 Tipperary
@ihr.bsky.social
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
@clodaghtait.bsky.social
Historian at MIC, Limerick, of women, men, children, emotion, death, violence, ghosts, cursing, folklore. Joint editor IHS. https://www.mic.ul.ie/staff/283-clodagh-tait
@ciarab.bsky.social
Professor of Irish Gender History, scholar of modern Irish socio-economic, cultural and health history. Recent book https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ordinary-lives-death-and-social-class-9780198865780?cc=ie&lang=en&
@sarahannebuckley.bsky.social
Associate Professor in History @universityofgalway. Vice-Dean for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in CASSCS. Gender, childhood, institutions. Co-author @irelandincolour books. Co-PI Tuam Oral History Project.
@rachelmurphy.bsky.social
Social historian of Ireland (landed estates; family, urban and local history) | Working @ria.ie and @unioflimerick.bsky.social | Visiting scholar at QUB | Historical GIS | Genealogist | Learning about biodiversity | Living in Thurles, Co. Tipperary. 🇪🇺🌍🌳
@shelbyzimme.bsky.social
Social historian of medicine, institutions, poverty, and death | PhD from Trinity College Dublin | Based in London
@mauricejcasey.com
Historian of intimacy and revolution in interwar Europe (think Marks & Engels meets Mills & Boon). Author of Irish Book Awards shortlisted HOTEL LUX — about a hotel in 1920s Moscow — and radical history newsletter Archive Rats: archiverats.substack.com
@fionnualawalsh.bsky.social
Associate Prof of Irish History at University College Dublin, interested in women’s history, and WWI. Enjoy film, fiction and fun. Always looking for fiction recommendations!
@olwenpurdue.bsky.social
Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social
Prof Social History LSBU | Female activism, gender equality & women's social movements Britain & Ireland | History of Experience | Council @royalhistsoc.org | PI #womensgrassrootsactivism & #Afterlives | Visiting full Prof @ucddublin.bsky.social