Camb British History
News and events in modern British history @camhistory.bsky.social
@emilybaughan.bsky.social
historian, writing about childcare, work, and love (sometimes here https://emilybaughan.substack.com/)
@georgesevers.bsky.social
Historian of sexual health, sexual violence and HIV/AIDS. Postdoc at the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland. Honorary Research Fellow of the School of Historical Studies at Birkbeck, University of London. Usually found reading or swimming.
@lottelydia.bsky.social
Historian. Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin, 2023). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024). Work stuff here: https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley repped by Carrie Plitt @ FBA pronouns are she/her and views are my own 💫
@elenamary.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain c.1840-1950. Writes about women's bodies, images, dress, beauty, whiteness and violence. DPhil on the cultural history of the female neck. https://elenamary.co.uk
@racheljcollett.bsky.social
PhD on the Merseyside Women’s Movement 1969-1990s + teaching history at University of Liverpool Keen gardener, rubbish morris dancer, folk enthusiast, and occasional witch 🌙
@amymilnesmith.bsky.social
Historian. Prof @ Laurier. Researching masculinity, mental illness and Victorian soldiers at the moment. Once had things to say about London Clubland.
@samanthamcc.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Magdalen, Oxford. Researching childhood experiences of physical disability in England, 1930-70. Cat owner 🐱 * Dyspraxic * actually autistic * first gen scholar * https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/people/samantha-mccormack
@alfiesteer.bsky.social
Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History. Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
@rossb-brighton.bsky.social
Queer history. Queer science. Queer history of science! 📚Agent: @phi11y.bsky.social. He/him. Darwin's Closet: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/191/2/323/6075648 Mendel's Closet: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2023.0036
@benmechen.bsky.social
Historian of 20thC Britain, London: liberalism, capitalism, media and sexuality, 1960s-90s / new thing is on late 20thC political ecologies. New co-edited book: Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain: https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526174703
@momoulton.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British & Irish History at the University of Birmingham (UK). I write about communities from a queer & trans perspective. Currently working on cooperative creameries and queer languages of kinship. Je parle français. 한국어를 공부하고 있어요.
@fernandag.bsky.social
Born in Naples 🇮🇹, roots in 🇵🇹, lived and worked in🇩🇪🇨🇭and now in 🇬🇧 Associate Prof in History and Politics at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Author of “Hegel and Italian Political Thought: the Practice of Ideas, 1832-1900”(CUP, 2024)
@thehistorygirl1.bsky.social
Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.
@lauratisdall.bsky.social
Senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle University. C20th/C21st British childhood, adulthood & age. Writes & reviews fiction: loves the speculative, sapphic and uncanny. Lesbian. 🌈 https://drlauratisdall.wordpress.com
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@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.
@evemworth.bsky.social
Modern British Historian at Exeter. Class and mobility, elites, women, the state. Written a book on Women of the Welfare State Generation. She/Her.
@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.
@cadebellaigue.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her
@camlibresearch.bsky.social
Director, Research and Collections, Cambridge University Library and CUL Research Institute; Bye-Fellow, Pembroke College; FSA FRHistS; University Deputy Proctor; The Country House Library (Yale, 2017); private views
@liamsims.bsky.social
Rare Books Specialist at Cambridge University Library | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Bibliographical Society Council Member | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (see pinned post for link to thesis) 🌈
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
@gbmorris.bsky.social
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@helenlsunderland.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain working on childhood, education & young people's politics | Leverhulme ECF at University of Oxford | she/her
@echomikeromeo.bsky.social
Lecturer in LGBTQ+ History/History of Sexuality, University of Glasgow
@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
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@camculturalhist.bsky.social
Graduate Students' Workshop @camhistory.bsky.social 🗓 Meet Wednesdays, 5pm 👥 Convenors Syeda (sufa2), Vic (vrm1000), Piers (ph551) & Alex (atr34)
@danielgilman.bsky.social
Researching 18th century eloquence and anti-slavery advocacy l PhD candidate at Cambridge University l Legislative Advisor for the Interparliamentary Taskforce on Human Trafficking l Speech in CS Lewis
@petermandler.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
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