Dr Maddy Pelling
Writer, historian and broadcaster
WRITING ON THE WALL (Profile, 2024)
AFTER DARK podcast (History Hit)
Currently writing about historical hoaxes, fake news and conspiracy theories
@moiradonegan.bsky.social
Opinion columnist covering gender and politics at The Guardian. Writer in residence at the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Host of the podcast In Bed with the Right. Real piece of work.
@elizkolbert.bsky.social
I am a New Yorker staff writer and author of "H is for Hope," "Under a White Sky," and "The Sixth Extinction."
@nadinebh.bsky.social
📻 Broadcaster 🖊️ Reporter at PoliticsHome 🎭 Actor, represented by RED Talent Mgmt ✍️ Send me stories🕵🏽 #BCFC 💙 ASOIAF & LOTR enthusiast ✨ Views my own 💭
@hettieobrien.bsky.social
Writing a book about private equity for Weidenfeld & Nicolson (UK) and Grand Central (US) | assistant opinion editor and leader writer at the Guardian | she/her
@emmaburnell.bsky.social
Best political commentator you've sort of heard of. Award-winning playwright you've never heard of. It just goes to prove what I've always said... https://linktr.ee/EmmaBurnell
@sonia-sodha.bsky.social
Columnist & broadcaster. Presenting for BBC Radio 4, news reviews for This Morning & Sky News. Highly commended/shortlisted Society of Editors' Commentator of the Year 2023 & 2024.
@michelawrong.bsky.social
Journalist and writer specialising in sub-Saharan Africa, ex-Reuters, ex-FT, author of five books, including one novel.
@sophiasgaler.bsky.social
Journalist, author, creator. 170m video views. Winner of a British Journalism Award & the Georgina Henry Award for digital innovation. Writing a book on linguicide. Ex BBC & VICE. I also run language events at Casa Italiana 🇮🇹
@matildamartin.bsky.social
Political Reporter @PoliticsHome 🖊️ about education (and a few other things) 🗞️Described by a former editor as "gloriously geeky" 📧[email protected](she/her) | prev Senior Reporter @tes
@jennykleeman.bsky.social
Journalist & broadcaster @guardian @TheSTMagazine @BBCRadio4 @BBCSounds. Author of SEX ROBOTS & VEGAN MEAT and THE PRICE OF LIFE. http://jennykleeman.substack.com jennykleeman.com
@dandavidprize.org
The Dan David Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of history.
@drjudymelinek.bsky.social
Forensic pathologist & coauthor with TJ Mitchell @workingstiff.bsky.social of Working Stiff & Jessie Teska Mysteries 🔎💀🔬 ❤️ & 🔄 DON’T mean I endorse/agree.
@culturalclare.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Sociology & Criminology. Rurality, pubs, communities, sustainability. Also💜 history. Views my own. @britbeerwriters.bsky.social @drinkingstudies.bsky.social
@rachelmurray.bsky.social
Lecturer in Literature and Environment at University of Bristol | Events Officer @uobrisceh.bsky.social https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Rachel-Murray-fc3d0780-8a1b-4a92-9676-5c862ea56faa/ Full-time devotee of cat Shrimp 🦐
@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
@oliviacampbell.bsky.social
New York Times bestselling author of WOMEN IN WHITE COATS and SISTERS IN SCIENCE. Editor, Parents & Everyday Health. Regular contributor, NatGeo. Journalist. Essayist. Feminist. Mom. Lover of cats, books, baking, tea, & thrifting
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
Historian & Writer • PhD on Mary Delany and the culture of Improvement at University College Cork • 18thC cultural history, country house & material culture studies, animal histories • Secretary Women’s History Association of Ireland • West Cork
@nguthrie.bsky.social
Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
@c18ah.bsky.social
Digital humanist · Independent scholar and Consultant for Digital Humanities @huber-digital.bsky.social · Research: poetry (very long #c18th) · Published: eighteenthcenturypoetry.org, thomasgray.org · Project: romanticperiodpoetry.org
@yorkstjohn.bsky.social
Welcome to the official Blue Sky account for York St John University. Join us for a daily slice of YSJ life. We'll share our research, upcoming events, and other news from across the University.
@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)
@sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at Edge Hill History #18thC #birth #womenshist #foodhist #yorkshire #trust Lover of cake, tea, quiet & campervans.
@bsecs.bsky.social
The British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies supports the study of the long #c18th. Check website for details. https://www.bsecs.org.uk/
@cecs-york.bsky.social
• Putting the interdisciplinary in eighteenth century studies for over 25 years • Researching and teaching the longest eighteenth century, 1650-1850 • Home to the interdisciplinary in MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@serenadyer.bsky.social
🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History ✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch 🎬 Presenter @englishheritage 📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency She/her
@liamsims.bsky.social
Rare Books Specialist at Cambridge University Library | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Bibliographical Society Council Member | Venetophile | Bellringer | PhD on antiquarian networks in 18thC Lincolnshire (see pinned post for link to thesis) 🌈
@philistella.bsky.social
Research Fellow @ies-sas.bsky.social, Bougie London Literary Woman, cat concierge. Book on 18th-century women's letters forthcoming from Chatto & Windus. natashasimonova.com
@whoresofyore.bsky.social
Sex History. "A Catalogue of Jilts, Cracks, Nightwalkers, Whores, She-Friends, Kind Women & Others of the Linen-Lifting Tribe”
@k8lister.bsky.social
Blonde Bombsite. Sex Historian. Author of A Curious History of Sex & Harlot, Whores, & Hackabouts. Host of Betwixt the Sheets Podcast. Consider this your fair dos warning.
@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
@womenknowhistory.bsky.social
media + curriculum tool for promoting women & nonbinary historians | 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 | https://womenalsoknowhistory.com/ #WomenAlsoKnowHistory #HistoryBeyondTheBinary
@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.
@alexchurchill.bsky.social
FRHistS Royal/Military Historian Director @greatwargroup 🕯️ www.istoriatravel.org ✈️ Rep: @donaldwin.bsky.social 📚 #CFC ⚽️ #WW1 #WW2 🏴 But frequently bangs on about the French 🇫🇷 https://achurchill.substack.com
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historian Memory scholar Research Prof. SOAS University of London Sankofa Ubuntu Yoga Oceans & accidental gardener Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@hallierubenhold.bsky.social
Author of The Five, historian and a bit of TV. Story of A Murder: The Wives, The Mistress and Dr Crippen’s Crime of the Century on bookshelves March 2025. https://linktr.ee/hallierubenhold
@hellohistoria.bsky.social
BBC award-winning Social Historian ✍️ Death, Wales & Psychiatry 💀 Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum 🧠 Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy 🧠 🥇BBC History Extra '30 under 30' 📚 📍Cardiff | views are my own • she/her 🔗 www.linktr.ee/louvainrees
@sarahchurchwell.bsky.social
Public Humanities Prof, School of Advanced Study, Univ London. American abroad. Journalism, US politics, cultural & literary history esp 1920s & 30s & F. Scott Fitzgerald. Podcast: Journey Through Time with David Olusoga. @throughtimepod.bsky.social
@quackdoctor.bsky.social
Writer focusing on the history of medicine, especially patent remedies and fraudsters at thequackdoctor.com and thequackdoctor.substack.com Also co-host of literature podcast @shewrotetoo.bsky.social
@oispooky.bsky.social
🤼 1880s boxing & wrestling historian 🥊 London's Cockney, Cumbrian, Caribbean pugilists ✍🏻 Moscow, Munroe, Goodson, Wannop 👊 Advisor #AThousandBlows 👩🏻💻 PR @britsciassoc.bsky.social 🏖️ Clacton-on-Sea 🖤 www.grapplingwithhistory.com
@belovedofoizys.bsky.social
Ancient Historian. Writing a book about gladiators in greek provinces. Public history devotee. ClusterC. Sweary. Expect typos. Birkbeck and Leicester alum https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills #pinksky
@spyhistorian.bsky.social
Historian. Spies, signals intelligence, Second World War. Social and Cultural history. History of humour. Insults = 🚫
@martinasalvante.bsky.social
Historian of modern Italy and Europe, with research interests in fascism, gender, masculinity, and disability.
@danellin.bsky.social
Historian, Gremlinologist, musician, and father. IBCC Digital Archivist. Trustee for RAF Ingham. All views my own. He/him.
@anitaanand.bsky.social
I present programs on TV and Radio, write history books and present a podcast called Empire with William Dalrymple.
@rakshadigs.bsky.social
🏺Archaeologist, Broadcaster, Award winning Author #Booksky 📕. BAFTA and Equity member 🎥 President Council for British Archaeology Research Affiliate @Pitt_Rivers Agent: http://www.miradormanagement.co.uk Insta: @raksha_digs All views my own!
@markcrail.bsky.social
Chartism and other #C19th stuff. Chartist Ancestors website, author of Tracing Your Labour Movement Ancestors (Pen & Sword books), web editor Society for the Study of Labour History. Science fiction reader. https://linktr.ee/markcrail
@gavinbrewis.bsky.social
PhD Candidate researching Neds & Ned Culture (1995-2008) through an Oral History of Trauma and Emotions. SGSAH Doctoral Research Committee. Education For Tomorrow Advisory Board. #emotions #trauma #violence #culture
@williamsimpson.bsky.social
Head of Content at Airship. We make podcasts like American Scandal, Business Movers and History Daily. British but work with Americans so I've basically forgotten the way round dates go, which is unfortunate for someone writing about history all day.
@jhawn.bsky.social
Doctoral Candidate at LSE International History. Book on the Russian Constitutional Crisis of 1993 forthcoming. I use to live in DC and do public policy, geopolitics, and anti-extremism. Dyslexic Academic. Find a way or make one! he/him