Charlotte Wildman
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
@maireadenright.bsky.social
Irish academic living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
@sophiemhistory.bsky.social
Death and crime historian, family researcher, teller of tales. Open Uni PhD candidate writing about inquests in the 19thC
@stephanieolsen.bsky.social
Historian of childhood, experience, emotions and education of Britain, Empire, Global. Editor of History of Education. Senior Researcher, Centre for the History of Experiences (Tampere) & Faculty Affiliate, History, McGill. PhD, FRHistS. Montréalaise 🇨🇦
@carmenmangion.bsky.social
historian of 19th and 20th gender&religion; currently writing about feminist Catholics; religious communities in the inner city; lay sisters, female medical missioners
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
@cathamclarke.bsky.social
Writer, academic. Professor & Director @chppc.bsky.social & @vchlondon.bsky.social. Beach hut days. New book: #AHistoryOfEnglandIn25Poems, Penguin Allen Lane, 04.09.25. https://www.catherineclarke.info/ / https://www.history.ac.uk/people/catherine-clarke
@clareclarke.bsky.social
Lady Literature Lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Belfast based. Cat person. Expert on Sherlock, crime fiction, true crime, Victorian literature, and 19th century newspapers. New book coming soon(ish) Rep: Aevitas Creative UK
@djrgrey.bsky.social
Sociology & History at University of Hertfordshire | FRHistS | SFHEA | Works on gender & crime in Britain & India. He/Him.
@clartyclara.bsky.social
PhD. Lecturer. Historian of modern British childhood, gender, the family, welfare.
@willpooley.bsky.social
historian of witchcrafts, folklore, France 18-20th c ass. ed. French History ed. Cambridge Elements in Magic also #CreativeHistories not *literally* a birb
@profelainechalus.bsky.social
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@caitlin-smith.bsky.social
PhD from Ulster University | Historian of women, gender and medicine Researching maternal and infant welfare in Belfast during the 20th century
@leannemccormick.bsky.social
Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
@andrekosvarnava.bsky.social
Australian-Cypriot historian @flindersuniversity.bsky.social on Kaurna Yarta; expert on British empire, Cyprus, Armenia, migration; Editor-in-Chief @jich.bsky.social; poet; @YusufCatStevens fan https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/andrekos.varnava
@drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social
Historian,Director of UCD Gender Studies. Research-gendered & sexual violence in the Irish revolutionary wars / afterlives of Irish revolutionary women / Irish sexualities /feminist & queer histories / she/her / Ireland 🇮🇪 Dublin via north Kerry/ views mine
@petermandler.bsky.social
Professor of Modern Cultural History, Cambridge University; Bailey Fellow in History, Gonville and Caius College
@victoriandetective.bsky.social
Writer. Latest Book, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024). Teach 19thc Lit & Culture at Uni of St Andrews. Writing for a greener world.
@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. 🏳️🌈
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
@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
@historianhelen.bsky.social
Cambridge Historian, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
@ladyburglar.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at University of Manchester. Historian of crime. Burglary, Hotels, Inequalities. Reviews Editor for Social History. Lover of dinosaurs, gardening and 80s disco. Would-be novelist.
@jburkett.bsky.social
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
@jbhist.bsky.social
Prof of History & Material Culture Studies. Associate Dean for Research @lcflondon.bsky.social. The Victorian Hand Project funded by AHRC. Happily married to @medhistoryman.bsky.social
@erikahanna.bsky.social
Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
@alicemarples.bsky.social
Research & Postgraduate Development Manager @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Historian of early modern science, communication & collections. She/her with 'Big North Energy'. Very personal.
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@kategibson.bsky.social
Historian of family and inequality at the University of Manchester, researching fostering, adoption, illegitimacy in 18th C Britain
@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
@vjctorianist.bsky.social
By day: historian and editor for hire. By night, historian and enthusiast of Chartism, the 19thC, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights ✊ she/her, views own drvicclarke.co.uk
@adamcrymble.bsky.social
History of migration | Trustee of Programming Historian | Interdisciplinary | Digital Humanities, Education & Research | He/Him | Own views. Book: Technology and the Historian (Illinois, 2021).
@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
@simpep.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain, focusing on race, ethnicity, and migration histories. University of Warwick. Education Officer for History UK. Yma o Hyd. (he/him)
@urbanhistory.bsky.social
Urban History features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities. We're worldwide in scope. 🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/urban-history
@rubyrutter.bsky.social
Historian of women, emotions, mental health + the lived experience in the long C18. Social Media Editor for the European Review of History. 2024 Uni of Leeds Bedford Fellow for ‘Buying Happiness: Emotion and Advertising Ephemera’. Views are my own 🫧
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
@shcg.bsky.social
Not just for curators! Social history? Museums? Join us! No bio, no follow back. https://shcg.surfaceimpression.digital/
@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/
@yalebooks.bsky.social
Adventures in BOOKS from Yale University Press in LONDON https://yalebooks.co.uk/ Championing the arts / humanities & publishing art, history, current affairs, economics, literature, religion, music
@mbhjournal.bsky.social
https://academic.oup.com/tcbh Modern British History publishes peer reviewed work in modern British history. We skeet our articles, reviews, and the latest British history news. Formerly 'Twentieth Century British History'.
@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@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
@historyhannahb.bsky.social
Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
@erinacean.bsky.social
Archivist, historian, reader, Londoner, feminist @erinacean @[email protected] www.lesleyahall.net https://lesleyahall.blogspot.com/