Dr Adele (Del) Sykes
Medievalist. Talks a lot (& occasionally writes) about urban social politics & documentary culture. Does stuff with Historic Towns Trust, English Heritage & Institute of Historical Research. Labrador-mum. Whacky-witch-granny. Gin-lover. On the run from Tw…
@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
@royalhistsoc.org
The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly and professional study of the past. Our membership is an international community of historians: https://royalhistsoc.org/
@routledgehistory.bsky.social
We publish academic books & journals in the field of history. This account is managed by our history Editorial teams.
@mckeagns.bsky.social
Medieval church court document lover | Medieval church court document abbreviation hater
@imc-leeds.bsky.social
Welcoming the world's researchers to share ideas in Medieval Studies at @UniversityofLeeds.bsky.social. Worlds of Learning, 7-10 July 2025
@shaneewen.bsky.social
Professor of urban history and fire safety, editor Urban History, trustee of the Historic Towns Trust Before Grenfell - free OA https://uolpress.co.uk/book/before-grenfell/ Free resources - https://forged-by-fire.wixsite.com/home?fbcli
@lollardfish.bsky.social
Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Preorder: #Oathbreakers: https://tinyurl.com/oathbreakersHC. Subscribe to the Modern Medieval Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/ModernMedieval
@calthalas.bsky.social
Late antiquity, early Middle Ages, manuscripts, cities and monasticism. A bit of digital humanities and maps as well. Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
@demiliopics2.bsky.social
Bronx born Medievalist, Art Historian, Hispanist, Lover of Italy and Antiquity New site: www.jamesdemilio.com Swept up by politics these days, but I do post photos on ancient, medieval, and Christian art. Check @capitalsandmore.bsky.social for art only.
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths. British, American, comparative and global politics and culture. Dad; Londoner; Cypriot. Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
@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!
@historylondon.bsky.social
Historian (FRHistS), author of THE BOSS OF BETHNAL GREEN, a true foundation story of London’s East End and biography of Regency godfather Joseph Merceron. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Boss-Bethnal-Green-Merceron-Godfather-ebook/dp/B086XFTWXK
@merylf.bsky.social
Early modern commercial London theatre; the King’s Women: discovering the wives, sisters & daughters at the heart of Shakespeare’s acting company.
@elaraks.bsky.social
Urban geography PhD student at King’s College London, researching damp & mouldy housing on regenerating London estates💧🦠 || Member of @radicalhousing.bsky.social Journal editorial collective
@emmakjackson.bsky.social
Sociologist. Ethnography, cities, practices of belonging, walking. Research consultancy, evaluation and training.
@alexrhystaylor.bsky.social
Cities, sensations and spaces. Sociology, ethnography and social history. Parenting in bulk. Salty.
@whuhistorian.bsky.social
West Ham historian & PhD candidate focusing on West Ham since 1981. @bssh.bsky.social Membership Sec. @sportinhistorypod.bsky.social Host. Co-Convenor of Sports & Leisure History Seminar @ the IHR. @footycon.bsky.social co-organiser He/Him
@ed1900and86.bsky.social
Doctoral researcher & VL @ University of Westminster, researching resistance to gentrification, digital media and counterpublics
@kfduggan.bsky.social
Dog lover | Pasta addict | Professor | Historian of crime, living standards, law and social control in Western Europe, 7th–13th centuries
@17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social
PhD-ing at York on '17C Private Diseases'. Aspiring historical fiction writer about women medical practitioners and their adventures in 17C London.
@hannahelias.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. IHR Fellow for 2024-5.
@lucyholehouse.bsky.social
Postdoc at Royal Holloway, University of London looking at the relationship between seeing C17th civic performances and reading commercial playtexts | enjoys looking at at pretty old things and pretty, old things
@amwilson.bsky.social
Academic | Author | Cultural commentator Opera. Classical music. Cultural history. The state of the arts today.
@drolibetts.bsky.social
National Railway Museum Research Lead. Historian of industrial working-class worlds 1850-1950. Passionate about connecting museums and universities.
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
@andrewwhittaker.bsky.social
Historian. War, society & culture in twentieth century London with special interests in education, migration, social class and commemorative practices.
@robnitm.bsky.social
Author of two London history books - 'Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics' and 'High Buildings, Low Morals' - I'm currently doing up a 18th Century cottage in the Brecon Beacons which seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.
@lccmunicipal.bsky.social
London County Council, Greater London Council, pre- and post-1965 boroughs in London (+ occasional forays outside of the capital). Municipal stuff from the past that lives on today. Oh, and new towns, shopping centres, infrastructure etc. lccmunicipal.com
@municipaldreams.bsky.social
Social historian of housing. Author of 'A History of Council Housing in 100 Estates' (RIBA Books) and 'Municipal Dreams: the Rise and Fall of Council Housing' (Verso). I blog at https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/.
@tricksterprince.bsky.social
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, 20s30s. Out Oct 2025 - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP) Now - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
@indiawright.bsky.social
Cambridge PhD candidate examining the architecture of the Inns of Court during the C17 • Editor of the London Topographical Society Newsletter • Mother to small children
@jamie-gemmell.bsky.social
Historian of the Atlantic World - working on race and slavery in 17th c. London | PhD Researcher, KCL History | General Admin. KCL CEMS | 🏳️🌈 | https://jamiegemmell.com/
@milesogborn.bsky.social
Historical geographer at Queen Mary University of London | writes books | reads books | working on working on the 1831-2 Uprising in Jamaica | picture from Keith Piper (2007) Lost Vitrines.
@victorianlondon.bsky.social
Lee Jackson, Victorianist, historian, author of 'Dirty Old London' (Yale, 2014), 'Palaces of Pleasure' (Yale, 2019), 'Dickensland' (Yale, 2023)
@cspence.bsky.social
Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
@annacusack.bsky.social
Early modernist. Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste & Uni of Essex. Tutor at Oxford Conted & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800', London, suicides, crime & punishment, dead, burial, religious outsiders. Co-editor How-to History
@mattthompson.bsky.social
• full-time urban geographer (UCL Bartlett) • spare-time cyclejographer (London mostly) • first-time author (*Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s hidden history of collective alternatives* https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv153k6cx
@jpaprice.bsky.social
Public and Community Historian; Director, Museum of Everyday Life; Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. Historian, educator, author, walker, talker, academic, freelancer, wild swimmer, taphophile. www.drjohnprice.net www.moel.org.uk buildingstories.co.uk
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
@markallen23.bsky.social
PhD in history from Darwin College, Cambridge University. Studied the role of tolerance & intolerance of popular baroque Catholicism in early Stuart London on political crises and the outbreak of the English Civil War. https://doi.org/10.1017/bch.2022.21
@drewdgray.bsky.social
Historian of crime/anarchist/Arsenal fan and co-chair of the Arsenal Advisory Board/occasional photographer/, trying to be green Chair of aisa-arsenal.bsky.social
@williamcavert.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, its animals, pollution, energy, climate, nature, and people. Author of The Smoke of London: Energy and Environment in the Early Modern City. Living in St Paul, MN.
@davehitchcock.bsky.social
Historian: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-4968 Course Director and research unit lead, CCCU. Currently: "Dying Homeless, 1600-2013", Soon: 'The Ends of Poverty in the British Atlantic, 1600-1800' (2nd album). He/him.
@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
@drjessayres.bsky.social
Apprentice Archivist @thelondonarchives | Research Associate @CREMS-York | Uni of York alumna | PhD on women in C17th London Court of Orphans |
@urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social
https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Powerful citizen journalism from Yorkshire | co-creational media | regulated by IMPRESS https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/ To volunteer as a writer, editor or behind the scenes, email editor@yorkshirebylines.co.uk