Charlotte Wildman
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
@freddyfoks.bsky.social
'The past is only the future with the lights on.' Emigration; Anthropology; Modern British History. Simon Fellow at Manchester: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/freddy.foks
@deannalyncook.bsky.social
PhD: Caribbean children in the British colonial education system, 1940-1985 @QMHistory. Podcaster: The History Hotline. Isaiah 54:17 🇯🇲
@proflrobinson.bsky.social
@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
@ourcriminalpast.bsky.social
Orig AHRC funded network, all things crime and penal history, archives, heritage, museums, Heather Shore (MMU) & Helen Johnston (Hull). Opinions own, tweets by HJ. www.ourcriminalancestors.org
@amyhelenbell.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: WW2, murder, forensics, female criminals. Latest book- Under Cover of Darkness: Murders in Wartime London (Yale, 2024). Likes cakes.
@drlindseyfitz.bsky.social
NYT Bestselling Author. Medical Historian. Breast Cancer Survivor. Next book: SLEUTH-HOUND, a whirlwind tour of Victorian forensics from the perspective of the man who loaned a voice & razor-sharp logic to Baker St.’s famous resident: Sherlock Holmes.
@gracedimeo.bsky.social
Lecturer. Research: historical criminology; women & crime; gangs & organised crime; criminal network analysis. All about cats, fantasy, knitting & jazz.
@henryyeomans.bsky.social
Historical criminologist specialising in all things alcohol. Professor of Criminology at University of Leeds. Once described as bearing a 'striking resemblance to Peter Beardsley'.
@jessamycarlson.bsky.social
Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.
@drtahaneyalghrani.bsky.social
Lecturer #Criminology ⚖ Author-Wayward Girls (2024) 📕YouthJustice|CrimeHistory|Pathways|SocialJustice *views my own https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wayward-girls-in-victorian-and-edwardian-england-9781350407114/
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@jolaycock.bsky.social
Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Manchester.
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
IHR Women's History Seminar, Schools of Advanced Study, University of London
@jtullock.bsky.social
Archivist, consultant, genealogist, mentor. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday. ~Pearl Buck
@drjonwinder.bsky.social
Historian, geographer, heritage practitioner | currently working on everyday experiences of extreme heat (MeltingMetropolis.com) | research interests include climate, nature, cities, play
@christinegrandy.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and its media (film, television, and the web); forthcoming book with CUP on Audience Racism in 20th C Britain; now into the history of data usage and online experiences; Canadian tolerating the UK (she/her).
@president.ie
Updates on the work of Uachtarán na hÉireann Michael D. Higgins. https://linktr.ee/PresidentIRL
@evertonfc.com
The official Bluesky account of Everton Football Club. The Originals, est. 1878. 🔵
@cadebellaigue.bsky.social
Historian of 19thC GB & France - social mobility, childhood, gender, women, education; She/Her. Daughter of an immigrant, married to grandson of immigrants. No longer a member of any political party.
@ruthdav.bsky.social
Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
@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)
@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
@hagenilda.bsky.social
cultural historian of medicine & the occult 1200–1700 | welsh | precarious | palaeographer | ocd | neurodivergent | dogs | karaoke | food | ucu nec | ucu commons | cofounder MadCovid | she/her agent: Fabienne @kiagency.bsky.social www.ki-agency.co.uk
@medhistoryman.bsky.social
Historian at Lancaster University and Co-Investigator on the AHRC-funded @victorianhand.bsky.social project. Blissfully married to my PI @jbhist.bsky.social. Author of two books: https://bit.ly/3968wLB & https://bit.ly/3KwWtVS
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too
@emilyrobinson.bsky.social
History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd. Professor at Sussex.
@claireplmartin.bsky.social
#Historian of gender, sexuality, health & the life cycle in modern Britain. Research Fellow, Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980, University of Birmingham. Queer | Feminist | French | Vegan | She/her
@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&
@serenitybookshop.bsky.social
Independent Bookshop in Romiley, Greater Manchester. Second bookshop in Stockport Centre now open! Co-founder Stockport Noir. Admin: @oziasmidwinter.bsky.social
@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
jester of goodwill (journalist, author, radio person, etc) marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
@blackwellsmcr.bsky.social
Your friendly neighbourhood bookshop on Oxford Road, Manchester 📚 Bookchat, events and silly things. Bleets (?!) by @rednewsom.bsky.social https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/blackwells-manchester-11315868456
@saimanasar.bsky.social
Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. Views own. PI: Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historian Memory scholar Research Prof. SOAS University of London Sankofa Ubuntu Yoga Oceans & accidental gardener Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@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
@mariankeyes.bsky.social
Reads books. Watches telly. Wrings hands over the state of the world.
@lauracforster.bsky.social
Historian @york.ac.uk | Editorial collective @historywo.bsky.social | 'The Paris Commune in Britain', coming May 2025 https://shorturl.at/662e4 | 'Friends in Common', coming June 2025 https://shorturl.at/f2nRs
@taryndevere.bsky.social
Joy Bringer. Writer/Artist/Fashion Activist/Occasional performer. TEDx speaker. Married 8 times (7 to the same person). Writes for RTE Lifestyle. Also find me on substack taryndevere.substack.com She/They
@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
@helenglew.bsky.social
Gender historian, book lover, runner, gymnerd. Current projects: social & cultural history of the marriage bar; history of women typists She/her https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781784996208/ Research/writing services: https://helenglew.com
@katebradleyhistory.bsky.social
Reader in social history & social policy at the Uni of Kent - Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. 20th & 21st justice, welfare, technology, crime. Views mine. She/her.
@jonesemily.bsky.social
Historian of politics and ideas at the University of Manchester. Author of Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism. Writing a book about the Disraeli myth and One Nation.
@jadevshepherd.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain (crime, psychiatry, family); former senior lecturer; research associate at Newcastle University https://www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/people/profile/jadeshepherd.html
@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
@claudiajsoares.bsky.social
Historian of social care, family, and emotions in the long 19th century. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Views my own 🙄
@gillianobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Public History. Author of 'The Darkness Echoing'. Public History/Museums/Heritage/Memory/Death/Dark Tourism/Spies/Nuns/ Board member Irish Museums Association
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC. York and Newcastle.
@vrandall.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Modern British History. Interested mainly in Victorians and their interaction with the Arab-Islamic World.
@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.