Laura King (she/her)
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
@andrewseaton.bsky.social
Historian and writer | politics, social history, medicine, environment, modern Britain | Author of 'Our NHS: A History of Britain's Best-Loved Institution' (Yale, 2023) | Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at UCL http://andrew-seaton.com
@jecfree.bsky.social
Historian @ QMUL, feminist, researching reproductive justice in German history, previously Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism (2022), 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.
@onslies.bsky.social
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
@qmcbs.bsky.social
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
@throughtimepod.bsky.social
History from the ground up. Ordinary people, extraordinary impact. 📜 Hosted by David Olusoga & Sarah Churchwell.
@profdanhicks.bsky.social
Museum Curator and Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, Oxford University • Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford • Tutor Art/Anthropology • https://linktr.ee/danhicks
@recovery-histories.bsky.social
Recovery Histories is a project that investigates the histories of child sexual abuse, trauma and recovery in Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales (1950s to present day). It is co-produced with survivors and practitioners and funded by Wellcome.
@anaakulich.bsky.social
Historian of Sino-Russian interactions. Teaching Fellow in International History at U of Leeds. Member of editorial collective @peripheralhist.bsky.social.
@shannondevlin.bsky.social
Historian of siblings, the Irish family, networking and sociability in 19th-C Ireland. Belfast-Galway commute enthusiast. Lecturer in Irish History @ U of Galway
@jacksaundrs.bsky.social
Anarcho-syndicalist, labour historian (post-war motor industry, NHS). Author: Assembling Cultures (http://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526155979/) (he/him) Blue and White Notes #itfc https://bluewhitenotes.beehiiv.com/
@simonhallwriter.bsky.social
Historian and writer. Author of the forthcoming Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed The World. Previous books include 1956: The World in Revolt and Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s.
@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
@keiragomez.bsky.social
Birkbeck College PhD student - The Narrative Inheritance of the "Ceasefire Babies": An Oral History of Conflict-Era Family Storytelling in Northern Ireland
@socaustgen.bsky.social
Educating family historians since 1932: courses, events, library, community & more www.sag.org.au #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #findyourfamily
@helenpdrabble.bsky.social
Author of 'A Victorian's Inheritance'. Coming soon: “…Yet” A Story of Triumph Over Childhood Separation, Trauma, and Disability. English Victorian life. Victorian recipes. Bovine Tuberculosis #FamilyHistryy #SocialHistory #Psychology #MentalHealth.
@kawulf.bsky.social
Historian of #VastEarlyAmerica, gender, family & politics | Director & Librarian @ JCBLibrary | History Prof @ Brown U #LineageTheBook OUP July 2, 2025 | On some other platforms and also @ karinwulf.com | Opinions here just mine.
@jaydprosser.bsky.social
Prof Humanities @universityofleeds. Personal and cultural stories to head off divisive times. Mixed race, Asian Jewish, trans veteran. Most recent: Loving Strangers. Working on: Holocaust Torah scroll shoe soles from Salonika. https://www.jayprosser.com
@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
@chrisjpearson.bsky.social
Environmental Historian | Dogs | Climate | Books Author of Collared: How We Made the Modern Dog (Profile 2024) and Dogopolis (Chicago 2024)
@martinjohnes.bsky.social
Historian of Wales & the UK. Books include: Aberfan, Wales since 1939, England's Colony?, Welsh Not, Christmas & the British, History of sport in Wales.
@alan-macleod.bsky.social
Scot. Historian. Author of International Politics and the Northern Ireland Conflict. My views. He/him.
@rowan-thompson.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain. Former IHR Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History. Writing a book on militarism in interwar Britain.
@lawrenceblack.bsky.social
(aka Lorenzo LeNoir) Teach history - https://www.york.ac.uk/history/people/black/ - or where, when and how politics and culture meet. Or don’t. Generally likes flawed red things.
@emilyrobinson.bsky.social
History, politics. Usually modern Britain. Currently taking a detour to the lost medieval island of Ravenser Odd. Professor at Sussex.
@emmaeditorial.bsky.social
Editorial Director, Manchester University Press. Commissioning art and design history, British Pop Archive and creative writing guides. Big fan of cats.
@emilycuming.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at LJMU; author of Housing, Class and Gender (2016) and Maritime Relations (2025) https://profiles.ljmu.ac.uk/11398-emily-cuming
@amyryall.bsky.social
Academic-related staff in HE, UCU member, Trustee, Eyam Museum. Would rather be in Wales, Berlin and/or out of Higher Education.
@jackiedepelle.bsky.social
Family and Local History enthusiast, ex-WEA. Member Family History Societies, British Association for Local History, Guild One Name Studies, Society for One Place Studies etc! Based in Yorkshire, God's Own County. www.yourfairladies.co.uk
@eleanorlowe.bsky.social
History and politics teacher in Essex. Previously PhD on love, marriage and politics in modern Britain.
@fahacs.bsky.social
The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is one of the largest and most exciting centres in the UK for aspiring cultural practitioners to hone their creative and critical skills, and broaden their intellectual horizons.
@natashaanson.bsky.social
PhD student (Durham Uni & Beamish Museum) researching nostalgia and working class heritage 🪩 she/her, views own, still figuring it out
@raegillibrand.bsky.social
Premodern disability, health and technology scholar. Lecturer in Inclusive Learning, University of Leeds. All views are my own and not those of my employer. raegillibrand.com
@oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social
Politics of complexion in Black Britain, 1920-85 (PhD) | Doctoral Fellow at the IHR and Teaching Associate at QMUL | Historian of the Lascelles Caribbean archive at Harewood House | She/her 🇰🇳🇮🇳☬
@martindoyle.bsky.social
Books Editor of The Irish Times; author of Dirty Linen: The Troubles in My Home Place (Merrion Press)
@joemoransblog.bsky.social
Professor of English @LJMU and author of If You Should Fail, First You Write a Sentence, Shrinking Violets, Armchair Nation, On Roads etc. Website: joemoran.net
@profalisonsfell.bsky.social
Historian & Dean at University of Liverpool. WW1, women & war.
@qubhistory.bsky.social
History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under ‘Lists’. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
@sophialambert100.bsky.social
PhD student and budding historian of Anglo-Jewish history; Leeds history; cemeteries; social, urban and spatial history; writer; museums. LBU alumni.
@drgillhistory.bsky.social
Historian of women in late medieval/early mod Italy. Writing a book on a monastery for repentant prostitutes. Open University. Feminist. Strong words; weak tea. UCU rep. She/her.
@restocruz.bsky.social
Social anthropologist of kinship, siblingship, social and geographical mobility, generation, inheritance, Philippines and Southeast Asia, and the UK. 📍Edinburgh https://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/resto-cruz
@renaudmorieux.bsky.social
History Professor at University of Cambridge. Oceanic history, migrations, social history of war, history of international law, incarceration, history of the family, statelessness.
@siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social
Policy economist, here for methods and cultural news Previously social scientist at Sheffield Methods Institute, and Universities of Bristol & Manchester. Ex-HMT Honorary SL School of Education, Sheffield; Visiting Professor at the Policy Institute, KCL
@drcharlottewildman.bsky.social
Historian of Modern Britain: cities, especially Liverpool and Manchester, gender and class