George Gosling

@cranesfootlance.bsky.social

Family historian & genealogist. Wrestles with history. IHGS Student. Background in HR, Wellbeing, Disability, Mentoring & FE. Europhile. Father, son & cousin. Researching New, Cammish, Atkinson, Martin, Gale, Higginbotham and Unknown. Racey by name....

@seroddy.bsky.social

Social historian of modern Ireland based at Maynooth University.

@shirinhirsch.bsky.social

Anti racist historian at Manchester Met and People’s History Museum. Views my own

@drcharlottewildman.bsky.social

Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class

@peteryeandle.bsky.social

Historian of 19/20thC British history, working on cultural histories of war and Empire. Event organiser for wso, which is music/poetry led fundraisers to support foodbanks/homelessness support groups. I'll be using the account for both.

@jeremycyoung.bsky.social

Senior Advisor @aacu.org. Advocate for liberal education. Personal account.

@ekd.bsky.social

Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.

@overunderpod.bsky.social

Join Gary Younge and Carys Afoko every week for a critical look at the stories in the news that are either over-reported or that fly completely under the radar. LISTEN HERE 👉🏽 https://linktr.ee/overthetopundertheradar

@uncashh.bsky.social

Artist & practice-based PhD candidate with Royal Holloway University's Geography Dept. Creator of Becoming the Forest zine, curator at Legion Projects. Based in Oslo, sometimes London. www.unahamiltonhelle.co.uk tweet archive: https://x.com/UnaOsLondon

@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

@sarahcrook.bsky.social

Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/

@linseyrobb.bsky.social

Historian of war, pacifism and gender @ Northumbria University. Basically professionally interested in men who don’t fight wars

@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/

@profginab.bsky.social

Professor of Social History, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society. Writing book on 200 years of student life London

@jessamycarlson.bsky.social

Archivist. Historian. Knitter. Walker. Guider. Mama. Half deaf.

@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.

@hpsvanessa.bsky.social

historian of science, medicine, food, sport and exploration; other content generally but not limited to: my dinner, a weird bug, feminist beer, complaining about bad parking. Latest book: tinyurl.com/HigherColder

@andrewpopp.bsky.social

Historian of economic life, emotions & the everyday. Living in Copenhagen, going swimming, being vegan.

@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

@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 🌙

@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

@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.

@tomhulme.bsky.social

Reader in History based at Queen's University Belfast. Interested in queer Irish history, 1880-1960s. PI of AHRC-funded “Queer Northern Ireland: Sexuality before Liberation”. Secretary of local UCU branch. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-hulme

@beckhistorian.bsky.social

🏳️‍🌈 they/them 🗃️ PhD in progress at CHSTM @ University of Manchester ♿️ History of white canes in twentieth century Britain 🧑‍🦯‍➡️ #DisHist 🌳 I have an egg called Dippy and we go on adventures together

@saimanasar.bsky.social

Historian. Senior Lecturer at the University of Bristol working on gender, empire, and welfare activism. She/her. PI: Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism @wcifproject.bsky.social

@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).

@yorkhillyankee.bsky.social

Historian. Lecturer sport mgmt/policy @ Edinburgh Uni. Books on football & surfing; writing one on Island Games. Events. Curling. Methods. No, I don't know 1978's top goalscorer for Partick Thistle. Views my own. he/him aspectaculartableau.wordpress.com

@cont-brit-hist.bsky.social

The account for the Contemporary British History seminar at @ihr.bsky.social Fortnightly seminars, alternating between in-person and online. Follow us for details of our programme and other related talks and events that may be of interest.

@salvarmyarchive.bsky.social

The International Heritage Centre tells the story of The Salvation Army from its origins in the 1860s to the present, both in the UK and internationally. https://www.salvationarmy.org.uk/about-us/international-heritage-centre

@gsoh31.bsky.social

Historian. Writer.

@bostonoxford.bsky.social

Historian mostly, bunch of degrees; sporty, ex-elite athlete; MTBer; geocacher. Not much of a follow-backer. My book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/rebuilding-britains-blitzed-cities-9781350168800/

@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/.

@profelainechalus.bsky.social

Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.

@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

@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

@drsarahlkenny.bsky.social

Assistant Professor of Modern British Studies and Director of MBS Birmingham. Author of Growing Up and Going Out. Interested in pop culture, youth, leisure, consumption, and urban space.

@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

@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

@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.

@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.

@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.

@jolaycock.bsky.social

Historian: migration, refugees, humanitarianism, South Caucasus, Armenia. Manchester.

@claireljones.bsky.social

Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱

@thehistorygirl1.bsky.social

Historian, cook, gardener, knitter, reader, mother, wife, not in any particular order.

@drhick.bsky.social

Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.

@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

@sallyholloway.bsky.social

Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture, researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow | On maternity leave until 05/25

@kimatiwagner.bsky.social

Historian of empire, violence and atrocity photography - currently writing about the My Lai Massacre, March 16, 1968. Latest book: 'Massacre in the Clouds - An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History' (PublicAffairs, 2024) London - Wylie Agency