Helen Esfandiary
Social and cultural historian of motherhood, child-rearing, bodies, gender, disease, and medicine in the long c18th. Early Modern/c18th Visiting Lecturer, currently at Herts. Lead Convenor @IHR_LifeCycles & @Long18thsem.
@oliviaformby.bsky.social
Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. I work on children's emotions & language development in early modern England.
@feliciafricke.bsky.social
Archaeologist | Osteologist | Historian | British/Dutch | Postdoc @inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social | 1800s Eastern Caribbean
@rm-project.bsky.social
DFF-funded project documenting and analyzing early modern discourses about women's reproductive roles in the Atlantic World @ucph.bsky.social
@clairelanghamer.bsky.social
Director of the Institute of Historical Research. Sometimes writes about history and feeling.
@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
@ucldh.bsky.social
Centre for Digital Humanities at UCL. Interested in research on the connections between humanities scholarship and digital technologies. www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-humanities/
@juliagebke.bsky.social
Historian addicted to premodern stuff, especially to bodies and knowledge...
@drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
Historian of science, art, & ideas. Curious about how science & society shape each other? Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
@nemgarrett.bsky.social
Historian of 18th-c. Europe. Royalty and popular/print culture. Lecturing at Open University. Views my own. Queen Charlotte biography now available from Routledge. https://linktr.ee/nataleegarrett.historian.
@travisclau.bsky.social
(he/him/his) Assistant Professor + Poet @ Kenyon: c18/c19 British Literature/History of Medicine (immunity and vaccination)/Health Humanities/Disability Studies travisclau.com
@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/
@bemccollective.bsky.social
This is the account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective at the University of Manchester. Exploring bodies, emotions and objects in the past! https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotions-material-culture/
@monicamedhist.bsky.social
I'm an Independent Scholar (https://independentscholar.academia.edu/MonicaHGreen). Daughter #2 of Marlon & Eleanor Green. Focusing on #histmed, Global Health, the Black Death. Latest: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2024.29
@enesjay.bsky.social
independent historian / (professional) pitt the younger stan account | cam | kcl | currently on a sabbatical from academia | all views are my own
@rohandroy.bsky.social
Historian: South Asia, colonialism, science, insects. Associate Professor: University of Reading. Author: 'Malarial Subjects' (Cambridge,2017);Editor: Locating the Medical (Oxford, 2018). Words: ConversationUK; The Independent
@sarahmurden.bsky.social
18th century historian, FRHistS, genealogist and author for Pen & Sword books. Host of the website: All Things Georgian. https://georgianera.wordpress.com/
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in 18th-century Studies (Queer & Disability Studies). Author of *Effeminate Years* (2017); co-editor of *The Edinburgh Companion to Queer Reading* (2025). Views my own, not employer’s.
@cethompson.bsky.social
#histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | JHMAS Book Review Ed. | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
@socialbodiesuob.bsky.social
Material bodies, social identities & embodiment. University of Birmingham. https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/ @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, @earlymodernemma.bsky.social, @leverhulme.bsky.social #bodyhistory #18thcen #18thcletters
@the-polyphony.bsky.social
To stimulate, catalyse, provoke, expand and intensify conversations in the critical medical humanities. Hosted by Durham University's Institute for Medical Humanities. Supported by Wellcome. https://thepolyphony.org/
@basilbowdler.bsky.social
he/him | PhD @StAndrewsHist | Anglo-Dutch Public-Sphere c. 1685-1713 | @USTC | @NEMN blog editor
@piano-forte.bsky.social
Musicology/social history – researching music consumption in late Georgian England
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social
The UK's national festival of the humanities. Led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the @britishacademy.bsky.social.
@kateesthersmith.bsky.social
Historian of eighteenth-century Britain at University of Birmingham. Walker, swimmer, dog-lover, reader. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/smith-kate
@kateerrington.bsky.social
PhD candidate at Birkbeck UoL & LSHTM, researching cultural history of pregnancy & maternity care in the 20th C. Interested in risk communication during pregnancy
@coventgardenladies.bsky.social
A Public History MA project of @rachelthehistorian providing an insight into the ladies found in the lists of Covent Garden Ladies in the 18th Century. https://linktr.ee/coventgardenladies
@oliviaweisser.bsky.social
Historian of early modern medicine, sexuality, disease, gender Author of The Dreaded Pox (CUP, soon!), Ill Composed (Yale)
@annafranjam.bsky.social
Historian. 18/19C women, material culture, mental illness. British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. University of Birmingham. Book on asylum tourism forthcoming with Manchester University Press. She/Her #womenshist #histpsych #medhum
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.
@mboluferp.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History at @eui-eu.bsky.social Former PI of CIRGEN (ERC 787015) https://cirgen.eu/ Now researching emotions, correspondence, gender and empire at @eui-history.bsky.social
@bodiesandbeing.bsky.social
The Premodern Body Project is a scholarly collective dedicated to exploring the rich and diverse narratives of the pre-modern body.
@elementaladam.bsky.social
Chief Reviews Editor, Journal for 18th-Century Studies (JECS). 18th-Century Co-Editor, Literature Compass. Interests: #18C Print Culture, esp Satire & Periodicals. Podcast: http://anchor.fm/satire-no-more (@talkaboutsatire.bsky.com)
@sarahknott.bsky.social
Writer, feminist, intersectional historian of women and gender, University of Oxford and Kinsey Institute. Bi-national. Author of MOTHER IS A VERB. Now writing MIDDLE CARE, ‘4 Genealogies of Care’… all things CARE, really
@montaguletters.bsky.social
Digital edition of the letters of Bluestocking socialite and literary critic Elizabeth Robinson Montagu (1718-1800). https://emco.swansea.ac.uk/project/about/
@socialhistsoc.bsky.social
Promoting the research, teaching and sharing of social and cultural history since 1976.
@kharveyhistory.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural History, Uni of Birmingham; c18th history; letters; body. Most recent book on Mary Toft. PI https://socialbodies.bham.ac.uk/. Webage: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/history/harvey-karen
@eliskabujokova.bsky.social
Historian of Care and Bodywork in the British Atlantic, @LeverhulmeTrust postdoc at @UNB, PhD from @UofGGenderHist, formerly @Cambridge_Uni
@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/
@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social
The Centre is dedicated to the study of the diverse cultural, economic and social exchanges between early modern states in the Old World and beyond in the period 1450-1800. www.ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/
@amywilsonstorey.bsky.social
18thC clothing for pregnancy @UniofExeter | @Costume_Society | public history | museums | project management | FRSA http://Amywilsonstorey.com Babiesinmuseums.com
@claireturner.bsky.social
Historian of cancer and the senses. Postdoc Fellow @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Digital Engagement Fellow @hematopolitics.bsky.social.
@ellasbaraini.bsky.social
Junior research fellow at St John's College Cambridge. Historian of suicide, mental health, death & emotions. Comms @ Social History Society & social media @ The Historical Journal.
@richardjansell.bsky.social
Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. Forthcoming book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
@uclhhcentre.bsky.social
The UCL Health Humanities Centre draws together staff from different disciplines and departments engaged in teaching and research on matters relating to health, illness and well-being. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/health-humanities-centre
@re-histories.bsky.social
Lecturer and (Public) Historian of madness, mental ill health and LD. Manchester Metropolitan University, Pennine Heritage and the Mental Health Museum.
@claudiajsoares.bsky.social
Historian of social care, family, and emotions in the long 19th century. UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Views my own 🙄
@rhiggitt.bsky.social
Historian of science; Principal Curator of Science at National Museums Scotland & Honorary Fellow at STIS, University of Edinburgh. Views own. Formerly known as @beckyfh #histsci #histSTM #museums 📜🗃️ https://teleskopos.wordpress.com/profile
@rebeccarideal.bsky.social
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer. Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing). Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
@ctimmermann.bsky.social
Historian of Science, Technology & Medicine. Science is culture, and long live the humanities. Director of @manchstm.bsky.social. Lapsed biochemist. Immigrant. Rheinländer. Cyclist. Gen X. Owned by dog. Unhealthily online. Posts personal. He/him. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪