Laura O'Brien
Cultural historian of France, Meathwoman, crafter, multifaceted fangirl. Thinks a lot about Napoleon in cinema/theatre; Paris; caricature. She/her.
@rmesch.bsky.social
I teach French lit sometimes in English @ Boston U. Also history, visual, popular & material culture, gender & sex at the fin de siècle, photography & mass press. Books: Before Trans; Having it All in the Belle Époque; The Hysteric’s Revenge.
@amymcturkstarkie.bsky.social
Big fan of nineteenth-century France. I also like writing about women who make art.
@uksdn.bsky.social
The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) offers a lively forum for the dissemination of research on French and Francophone studies in the long 19th century.
@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
🗃️ Early Modern History at the University of York, FRHistS (and on Council) | 🎶 Music and post-Reformation Catholicism | 📚 Multilingualism, mobility, and exiled English convents | ✍️ Currently: Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing
@rwldproject.bsky.social
Welcome to the 'Railway Work, Life & Death' project, collaboratively researching British & Irish railway staff accidents pre-1939. Posts by Mike Esbester. #RailwayHistory #TransportHistory #MobilityHistory #Railway200 www.railwayaccidents.port.ac.uk
@mrcwarwick.bsky.social
Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards - Britain and beyond. Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more! https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
@charlielynch.bsky.social
Social Historian | Glasgow, Irish Adjacent | Humanist | Writes about sex, religion, queer lives, moral panics.
@wromantichistry.bsky.social
PhD student researching memories and Public History of the English Civil War (Royalist Reputations) and Monarchy. Modern Monarchy section editor at Royal Studies Journal. Chronically ill mum of 3.
@davidhendy.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster, Prof. Emeritus University of Sussex. 'The BBC: A People's History' (2022). 'Noise: A Human History', BBC Radio 4 (2013). Rep: Caroline Dawnay, United Agents https://societyofauthors.org/soa-member/david-hendy/
@naomipullin.bsky.social
Historian of 17thC & 18thC British Atlantic. Author of Female Friends and Transatlantic Quakerism, working on solitude in early modern Britain. Associate Professor @warwickhistory
@agnesjuliet.bsky.social
Writer, Historian, Researcher | NHS Reform, Birth, Policy | Think Tanks / Academia | NOSTALGIA published by Picador | Repped by Oli Munson | Views own | She/her
@dranniegray.bsky.social
Food historian, mainly British food ca1650 on. Writer, consultant, speaker. #BBCTKC panellist. Author of many books - the latest The Bookshop, the Draper, The Candlestick Maker: a history of the High Street. Also grows vegetables, often badly.
@bldigischol.bsky.social
Enabling innovative research with British Library digital collections. Posts by our Digital Curators https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/
@katemond.bsky.social
Medievalist, linguist, manuscript botherer ❧ Co-Editor of History Today ☞ LOST VOICES (Penguin/Stanford, forthcoming, one day) ❧ Posting in a personal capacity ❡
@kieranconnell.bsky.social
Historian and Writer at Queen’s University Belfast. MULTICULTURAL BRITAIN: A PEOPLE’S HISTORY out now with Hurst: https://www.hurstpublishers.com/book/multicultural-britain/ Agent: Salma Begum/Greyhound Literary Website: https://www.kieranconnell.com
@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. 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
@cathfletcher.bsky.social
Writing history, usually in Manchester, when possible in Italy. 'Renaissance skulduggery' - The Guardian. THE ROADS TO ROME: A HISTORY now out. Next up: early modern guns.
@drfrancisyoung.bsky.social
Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | Balticist | professional indexer | Lay Canon @stedscath.bsky.social | Tutor for Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historia Memory scholar Research Prof. SOAS University of London Sankofa Ubuntu Yoga Oceans & accidental gardener Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@stephenmcgann.uk
Doctor Thingy in Whatsitsname. Full biog: https://tinyurl.com/29skn3p6
@pantibliss.bsky.social
Performer, writer, speechifier, pub landlady, gender discombobulist National Fucking Treasure Ireland
@ucdarchives.bsky.social
We curate private paper collections documenting the modern Irish State; UCD; and many elements of the Franciscan manuscript patrimony. www.ucd.ie/archives
@kpierce624.bsky.social
Film Critic @geekgirlauthority.bsky.social . Film History, MA. Co-Chair @denverfilmcritics.bsky.social. Member @oaffc.bsky.social. Storyteller and film fan. She/Her Host- Piercing Pop Culture (Everywhere You Get Podcasts!)
@juliagaffield.bsky.social
Historian (she/her) https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300255478/i-have-avenged-america/
@niamhroisin.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Department of History at the University of Limerick. Researching religious architecture, histories of public space. Interested in books, new music, design. #CeaseFireInGaza https://pure.ul.ie/en/persons/niamh-nicghabhann-coleman
@aipsmith.bsky.social
Professor of US Political History at Oxford. Director of the Rothermere American Institute. Research conservatism, parties, Civil War. Host of The Last Best Hope? Podcast.
@dgershenowitz.bsky.social
W. Hodding Carter III Executive Editor of all things history @uncpress.bsky.social, living in Brooklyn. uncpress.org/debbie-gershenowitz
@brysonkisner.bsky.social
Historian: environment & borderlands, the South & the US & the Americas, 19th c. (mostly), environmental humanities; VAP Wake Forest, PhD Rice '24; Texan, reader (of course), sometimes gardener & birder.
@hollingswordy.bsky.social
Feminist Dem voter in the US South with a sweet partner and funny little dog. Political science prof at a small university, but it won’t take long to realize the views in my posts are my own.
@delphinegrass.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in French and Comparative Literature, Lancaster University. Creative-critical practice | Translation | Ecocriticism | Comparative Literature | Languages.
@rebwright.bsky.social
Energy historian based at Northumbria University, working on histories of heat and fuel poverty in 20th Century Britain. PI of the Wellcome CDA "Carbon Bodies". My book, "Moral Energy in America" (JHUP) is out in the Spring. https://shorturl.at/9tFaV
@tanyagoldman.bsky.social
cinema studies | media distribution + access | documentary | nontheatrical film | useful media | feminist media history | she/her https://www.tanyagoldmanphd.com
@pikerobert.bsky.social
Historian & PhD candidate at Cardiff University ‘Resistance Villages: understanding rural resistance'. Author: Silent Village: The Life and Death of Oradour-sur-Glane, Defying Vichy (The History Press) and Oradour s'est tu (Flammarion) www.robertpike.co.uk
@noreenmasud.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @UoBrisEnglish 🏳️🌈 A FLAT PLACE (Hamish Hamilton/MHP 2023) HARD LANGUAGE (OUP 2022) 🐨 AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker 🐈⬛ rep: @mfredturner
@jeres.bsky.social
Record Collector, Prog, Electronic Sound, the Quietus, Classic Pop... others. Author of Relax Baby Be Cool: the Artistry and Audacity of Serge Gainsbourg - out now on Jawbone Press
@paulduane.bsky.social
Irish filmmaker. Fuck thart, faigh amach. All You Need is Death streaming now, see linktree. “An Irish folk horror masterpiece” (Daily Beast) “It’s filled with dread!” says @kermodemovie.bsky.social He/him. https://linktr.ee/paulduane
@richardtoye.bsky.social
Historian. Exeter/Zürich. Author of Age of Hope: Labour, 1945, and the Birth of Modern Britain
@niamhcullen.bsky.social
Lecturer in history at QUB. Twentieth century Italy, history of emotions, family, motherhood. Creative approaches to history. Essays and stories in the Dublin Review @londonmagazine, Tangerine magazine https://niamhcullenwriter.com/
@kevinkosullivan.bsky.social
Author of The NGO Moment (http://cambridge.org/9781108708548). Associate Professor in History at University of Galway. Co-editor @difp-ria.bsky.social. Currently researching climate change and capitalism in c20th & early c21st Ireland
@olwenpurdue.bsky.social
Historian of the urban poor, children & welfare, migration, difficult public histories. Director, Centre for Public History Queen’s University Belfast . Happy in the forest with the pup or in front of the fire with a glass of something red
@marcscully.bsky.social
Lecturer in Psychology at Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. Does social psychology & qualitative methods, interested in identity in diaspora. Lives in Cork. Spends more time on the N20 than is good for me.
@rorymaclellan.bsky.social
Historian of the Hospitallers, Templars, crusades, and Jews in medieval England.
@richardlegay.bsky.social
Historian interested in media, memory & culture, and currently working on Franco-German memory politics. Lecturer in French Studies @unigoettingen.bsky.social Council member @IAMHIST.bsky.social Associated researcher @ABI-Freiburg.bsky.social (DE)
@vandawilcox.bsky.social
professional procrastinator, precarious historian, cat serf, romanista. Writes about the First World War, Italy, imperialism & Georgette Heyer, not usually all at once.🪡🥧🐈⬛️