Matthew Davies
Urban historian, especially medieval and early modern London. Executive Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London. Director of @layersoflondon.bsky.social
@timhitchcock.bsky.social
Historian of 18th century London; Professor Emeritus of Digital History at the University of Sussex. Just coughing in the ink to the end of time.
@historyhannahb.bsky.social
Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
@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.
@profbarrydoyle.bsky.social
Prof of History of Health @manchstm.bsky.social interested in hospitals and cities. Also some contemporary British Politics. Like walking in hills sometimes go running! Chair EuroHealthHist COST Action https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22159/
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
@sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social
Award-winning historian, professor & TV presenter Author, The King is Dead; Voices of Nîmes; 1536 Host, Not Just the Tudors podcast from History Hit
@gregjenner.bsky.social
~Public Historian 📜🤓 ~Host & creator of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME comedy & history podcast😆🧐📻📜🏛️ ~Hon. Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓 ~ Author of 7 funny history books ✍️📚 ~ CBBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES TV (series 1-9) 🎭🤣 ~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️ www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
@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.
@historianmemory.bsky.social
Historian Memory scholar Research Prof. SOAS University of London Sankofa Ubuntu Yoga Oceans & accidental gardener Agent: https://georginacapel.com/
@hisjournalha.bsky.social
BlueSky account for History: The Journal of the Historical Association. Academic history journal published by Wiley; editorial team based at Northumbria University. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X
@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
@urbanhistorya.bsky.social
If you're into cities and their histories, then you're into the Urban History Association!
@jpaprice.bsky.social
Public and Community Historian; Director, Museum of Everyday Life; Visiting Research Fellow, KCL. Historian, educator, author, walker, talker, academic, freelancer, wild swimmer, taphophile. www.drjohnprice.net www.moel.org.uk buildingstories.co.uk
@joaoaldegalega.bsky.social
PhD student at KCL’s Department of History. Unfreedom in medieval Catalonia is my current jam. Birkbeck alumnus 🦉 Born and raised in 🇵🇹🇪🇺, aspiring world citizen. 🇵🇸 🇺🇦
@bengidley.bsky.social
Sociologist, dad, attenuated Jew, nervous anti-fascist, rootless cosmopolitan, drum and bass fan, out of practice salsa dancer, asphalt botaniser, glutton, insomniac, hearing impaired, union member, living in London
@annacusack.bsky.social
Early modernist. Lecturer at Bishop Grosseteste & Uni of Essex. Tutor at Oxford Conted & WEA. PhD from Birkbeck, 'The Marginal Dead of London, c.1600-1800', London, suicides, crime & punishment, dead, burial, religious outsiders. Co-editor How-to History
@cspence.bsky.social
Early modern historian, mostly urban, London, accidents, maps, & print culture. Also archaeologist still trying to write up my past endeavors ...
@thelondonjournal.bsky.social
A journal embracing all aspects of metropolitan society past & present | Published by Taylor & Francis for London Journal Trust | Articles & Special Issue proposals welcome | thelondonjournal.org
@histassoc.bsky.social
The Historical Association continues to support the study, teaching and enjoyment of history at all levels. We provide digital and face to face resources. Today there are approximately 50 branches around the UK. www.history.org.uk
@heather1576.bsky.social
Archaeologist with a penchant for 16th and 17th century playhouses of all shapes and sizes, FSA. 🎭🏺
@jamescummings.bsky.social
Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late Medieval Literature at @newcastleuni.bsky.social jamescummings on former birdsite Long-term contributor to the Text Encoding Initiative #TEI, interested in digital scholarly editions #DH #medieval #drama #HTR #AI
@janetteleaf.bsky.social
Honorary Research Fellow: Birkbeck, Uni of London. 2024/25. Cultural Entomology; Victorianism; Gothic; Egyptomania; Redheads; Pre Raphaelite Art; Ghost Ships; Neo-Victorianism. Co-editor BL Insect Weird anthology.
@richardasquith.bsky.social
Historian and researcher. Vintners’ Company archivist, secretary of the Yorkist History Trust and Harlaxton Medieval Symposium. Urban history, death, piety, trust, and executors in pre-Reformation England; also early modern art. Often at Berkeley Castle.
@londonmeow.bsky.social
Data nerds studying governance and development at Birkbeck, University of London. https://ccheng11.github.io/. #datascience #rstats #firstgen 🏳️🌈
@lrylandepton.bsky.social
Historian & contributing editor for VCH @wiltshistory.bsky.social & @vchgloucester.bsky.social. Fellow @ihr.bsky.social. Ed. at @hobnobpress.bsky.social & Crime, Histories & Societies. VF @openuniversity.bsky.social https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/
@alihar.bsky.social
Retired library and information specialist. Volunteers at Brent Museum and Archives. Into local and family history. Sings with the amazing Cecil Sharp House Choir. Plays piano. Knits, reads. Bit of gardening. She/her.
@erikahanna.bsky.social
Historian of Ireland, cities, folklore, photographs, bicycles, raindrops and other ephemera. Associate Prof Modern History at University of Bristol. I blog about weather and urbanization here: https://rainandtheirishcity.com/
@ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Wohl Library of the @ihr.bsky.social is a national resource for everyone researching or writing history. Membership is free to everyone and we are an open access, reference library holding over 200,000 books and journals.
@historianhelen.bsky.social
Cambridge Historian, author of Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood, now writing the social history of retirement for Penguin/Allen Lane. https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/prof-helen-mccarthy
@amrcampop.bsky.social
Historical demographer at CAMPOP, Geography Dept Cambridge University. See also http://PopulationsPast.org. Views my own.
@kcols.bsky.social
Subject Matter Expert Digital Collections @jisc focusing on access and use of digital content in learning, teaching and research.
@aidannorrie.bsky.social
Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Lecturer & Programme Leader • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
@ellakhoward.bsky.social
Professor, first gen, historian of cities, current book project on history of historic preservation districts Author of Homeless: https://www.pennpress.org/9780812244724/homeless/ ellakhoward.com
@alexislitvine.bsky.social
C18-19 Historian, EH&DHGeoHum, Cambridge & CAMPOP- comparative 🇪🇺 econ development, Ind Rev, econ norms, lighthouses, gamification, data extraction and AI applied to Hist.
@docuracy.co.uk
Technical Director & Lead Software Developer, World Historical Gazetteer @whgazetteer.org Research Associate, Unlocking Upcycled Medieval Data @ihr.bsky.social GIS Consultant, Layers of London @layersoflondon.bsky.social
@viabundus.bsky.social
This is the international viabundus-project, digitally recreating Northern Europe's route-network around 1500. 🇩🇪🇳🇱🇩🇰🇫🇮🇸🇪More on http://www.viabundus.eu
@stuartdunn.bsky.social
Digital Humanist and Professor of Spatial Humanities, King's College London (@kingsdh.bsky.social). Also: Head of Humanities, @kingsartshums.bsky.social. Various other things too, e.g. @folkloresociety.bsky.social Council Member. https://stuartdunn.blog
@drdavidrundle.bsky.social
Historian, palaeographer, Renaissance man. Managing Editor, @mediumaevum.bsky.social . Found in libraries or restaurants.
@eric180uk.bsky.social
Senior Archaeological Investigator @ Historic England. Landscape Archaeologist. Pub Lover. Cricket Tragic. Guitar Hero. BHAFC fan. Husband. Dad. Views my own.
@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)
@hayleywright.bsky.social
Partying like it's 1799... Researcher of poverty, crime and disease in historic London and proud trustee of @hist_towns. On the lookout for PhD collab./funding.
@hetanshah.bsky.social
Chief Executive, The British Academy Chair, Our World in Data Board, National Audit Office Visiting Professor, Kings College London Fellow, Birkbeck College Advisory board, Resolution Foundation; Bennett Institute; UCL Policy Lab My own views
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
@alexdrace.bsky.social
Cultural history of modern Europe @uvahumanities.bsky.social. Books: The Making of Mămăligă (CEU Press); Networks, Narratives and Nations (Amsterdam UP). Amateur gardener. https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/d/r/a.j.drace-francis/a.j.drace-francis.html
@kiritekatawa.bsky.social
Scottish medieval and early modern gender historian, cat-lover and book-obsessed
@passamezzo.bsky.social
Musician, historian & mother. FRHistS. FSA. Early music specialist & historical consultant for film, TV, radio & theatre. Early Modernist. Passamezzo. Greensleeves Project. Occasional lecturer in Renaissance art & music at the Courtauld Institute.
@sarahrj.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, University of York. Trustee, UK Historic Towns Trust. #medievalsky