Jade Shepherd
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
@lauracking.bsky.social
Historian, latest book Living with the Dead (open access, OUP, 2025). Interested everyday life, emotional relationships, and how history gets passed on. Love collaborating with people in and outside the University
@drcharlottewildman.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class
@larafreidenfelds.bsky.social
Historian of Reproduction, Health, and Parenting in America www.larafreidenfelds.com Current research on history of complicated pregnancies book: The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy: A History of Miscarriage in America Regular contributor @ Nursing Clio
@ruthbeecher.bsky.social
Historian (mainly of medicine and child abuse), sea swimmer, greyhound guardian from the People’s Republic of Cork
@gabbystorey.bsky.social
Historian of monarchy, gender, and sexuality. Writer, traveller, feminist 🏳️🌈 #teamberengaria. Book: Berengaria of Navarre. Lord of Le Mans and Queen of England (Routledge, 2024). Rep'd by Georgina Capel Associates
@cultsochistory.bsky.social
Cultural & Social History is the journal of the Social History Society. We emphasize how the social and cultural are mutually constitutive and how studying one enables a deeper understanding of the other.
@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/
@genderandhistory.bsky.social
Gender & History is the major international journal for research and writing on the history of femininity and masculinity and of gender relations.
@laurenkassell.bsky.social
Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology
@histchild.bsky.social
Official account of the Children’s History Society - Exploring and sharing the diverse history of children, childhood and youth. https://www.histchild.org/
@aahmhistmed.bsky.social
The American Association for the History of Medicine promotes and encourages research, study, writing, and interest in the history of medicine. Celebrating our centennial, 1925-2025! #histmed
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
Educational developer, writer, historian, abolitionist | alleged "left-wing commie-god" | Higher ed, critical pedagogy, 18th-19th c. history, and baseball-especially minor league | Wrote: https://wvupressonline.com/node/823. he/him.
@jendeavour.bsky.social
Lecturer in c19th and c20th Literature at Uni of Warwick. #Gothic #DeathStudies #Childhood Assoc Editor @ Gothic Studies
@dremilyvincent.bsky.social
Research Fellow, English @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social. Deputy Assoc Director (Research) @cncsi.bsky.social Durham Uni. @GothicaUob.bsky.social. ECR Rep @bavs-uk.bsky.social. ‘Summoned to the Séance’ @britishlibrary.bsky.social👻
@archaeocobb.bsky.social
Prof of Archaeology & Pedagogy at the University of Manchester, NTF, PFHEA, UoM Academic Development Lead, CoDirector of the Ardnamuchan Transitions Project. #EDI. Giddy is my base state. she/her. https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/hannah.cobb
@atinybitwaring.bsky.social
Director of The Old Operating Theatre Museum. Previous: Science Museum, HSMOxford, Cambridge HPS & STS UCL. Material Culture, History of Science and Medicine. Easily distracted. Tea-drinker. Muma-bear. Own views.
@corabeth.bsky.social
Autistic Geordie illustrator and classicist. Assoc Lecturer at The Open University. National Teaching Fellow. Working class/first gen. Rarely seen without a cat.
@drannehanley.bsky.social
#Historian of Medicine & Modern Britain, University of Birmingham | Medical Humanities | UKRI FLF & PI on Histories of #SexualHealth in Britain, 1918-1980 | Series Editor @sshmedicine Book Series | https://healthhistorian.wordpress.com | #histSTM #MedHums
@badbridgetbook.bsky.social
Research project led by Elaine Farrell (Queen's Uni Belfast) & Leanne McCormick (Ulster Uni) exploring the lives of Irish women in 19th & 20th-century North America who ended up in trouble with the law. Book | Podcast | Exhibition@Ulster American Folk Park
@shahmimaakhtar.bsky.social
Historian. Exhibiting Irishness: Empire, race and nation, c. 1850-1970 out now with @ManchesterUP Studies in Imperialism Series. 30% discount code: EVENT30
@drjoannepaul.bsky.social
A "sparkling historian" ✨- The Times #thehouseofdudley "visceral and illuminating ... her style is cinematic" - Wall Street Journal 💚🇨🇦
@beckierutherford.bsky.social
Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | Editor at History Workshop | @historyworkshop.org.uk |
@evanpsullivan.bsky.social
PhD | Assistant Prof of History at SUNY ADK | Historian of disability, gender, & war | book: Constructing Disability after the Great War | Father, husband, & cat dad | posts are my own
@fmarshallpayne.bsky.social
Orwell Prize-winning writer and DPhil researching women's homelessness at Oxford. I am especially interested in oral history and life-writing. I've written for the TLS, Guardian, Prospect etc | she/her
@helenlsunderland.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain working on childhood, education & young people's politics | Leverhulme ECF at University of Oxford | she/her
@thenacbs.bsky.social
Official Bluesky account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS). We're in Montreal for #nacbs2025!
@charlottefaucher.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe and France: soft power, gender, WW2. Author of Propaganda, Gender, and Cultural Power (OUP 2022) Lecturer, university of Bristol
@sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature & Creative Writing. Burneys, book history, 18thc reading habits & naming practices. Novelist: MONSTER: A TALE coming from @northodoxpress.bsky.social in 2026. Maker of radio. Mother & carer. Yotam Ottolenghi superfan.
@camunicampop.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research group at the University of Cambridge. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/ Follow our blog: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages. https://www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
@estherdermott.bsky.social
ProVC for Arts, Law & Social Sciences, University of Bristol. Professor of Sociology & Social Policy. Families, parenthood, fatherhood, inequalities, socio-digital. Plus other random stuff
@19birkbeck.bsky.social
Online open access journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. https://19.bbk.ac.uk/
@victstudies.bsky.social
Literary, social, and cultural studies of 19C Britain and beyond. Online submission portal: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/victorianstudies/index Please direct all inquiries to victstu@iu.edu
@michaelgvann.bsky.social
Anti-fascist surfer, grappler, & historian. "The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt", other words in Jacobin and elsewhere, & mumbled podcast musings as a host on New Books and guest on Long Reads, Southeast Asia Crossroads, Napalm in the Morning, Bungacast, AmPrest.
@grimgrinningteresa.bsky.social
Whimsically Spooky Princess Disney/Horror Style Halloween everyday Hudson Valley/NYC
@historyelaine.bsky.social
Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
@this-is-emma.bsky.social
Archaeologist, historian, archival and collections researcher. Specializing in 19th American medicine and permafrost thaw in Alaska.
@historynerdess.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, disability, the body, gender, empire and modern warfare. Book Reviews Editor for Medical History. Australian in Yorkshire. Knitter and wannabe pastry chef. Trying to develop greener thumbs.
@leticiafontecha.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science, childhood, pain. Writer. Poet. Book: Childhood, Pain and Emotion: A Modern British Medical History (CUP soon!). Current project: Infants: A Medical History of Early Life
@kristinhussey.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, science and the environment. Lecturer in Environmental History at Newcastle University researching sleep and circadian rhythms. Author of Imperial Bodies in London. Also sea swimming, museum-ing and mom-ing. Kristinhussey.co.uk
@ericbschneider.bsky.social
Professor of Economic History at LSE studying health, demography, living standards and economic growth; working on global historical child stunting. Website: www.ericbschneider.com
@mhbuwmad.bsky.social
Official account for The Dept. of Medical History & Bioethics. University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. https://linktr.ee/mhb_uwmad
@histmedsouth.bsky.social
Southern Association for the History of Science and Medicine (SAHMS) is a professional organization founded in 1999 to further the mission of Professor L. M. Barnett (University of South Mississippi) to promote #histsci #histmed #histpsych #histSTM
@dirtysexyhistory.bsky.social
Author, historian, and host of the Dirty Sexy History podcast. Researching contraception in history. Words in BBC History, Haunted, and more. As seen on Netflix’s Lost Pirate Kingdom, talking about syphilis. 🏴☠️ Rep: Helm Literary. dirtysexyhistory.com
@reinarz.bsky.social
Historian of medicine, accidents, hospitals, medical simulation, medical education, museums, alcohol, breweries, the senses, smell… oh, and a keen cyclist, if I’m not reading a good book.
@historyvaccines.bsky.social
A project by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, documenting the history and science of vaccination from before Jenner and after mRNA. epiren.bsky.social <- Editor @HistoryVaccines <- Elsewhere
@jonathansjones.bsky.social
Historian at James Madison University | US Civil War era, History of Medicine | Author of Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans & America’s First Opioid Crisis (preorder: https://tinyurl.com/opiumslavery) | proud #firstgen | jonathansjones.net
@drhick.bsky.social
Environmental & medical historian at Newcastle University - hospitals, gardens, landscapes, senses, inclusive interpretation, story teller.
@kentishscribbler.bsky.social
Historian of medicine and stuff. Writer. Curator. Socialist. Obsessive. Author of “Psyche on the Skin: A history of self-harm” (2016) and “Am I Normal? The 200-year search for normal people and why they don’t exist” (2022)