Dr Becca Watterson (she/her)
*Personal account
(find me @drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social for all things work)
Historian. Working class academic.
Ruled by a three-legged pug named Uncle Waldo.
Neurodivergent and mad.
Lift weights, love dinos, collect rocks, play games.
Nerd and menace.
@drrebeccawatterson.bsky.social
Research Fellow in Mental Health at the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Ulster University Historian of Psychosurgery, Lobotomies, Millies and Medicine Working Class | Neurodivergent | Mad
@zoem98.bsky.social
Assistant Research Support Librarian at the Imperial War Museums || History BA; Medical Humanities MA; Level 3 Library, Information & Archive services || All views are my own.
@chendirl.bsky.social
Qualitative Health | Stillbirth & Perinatal #Death | Grief & Bereavement | Interdisciplinary | www.ciarahenderson.com/ | #CA22159 Science Officer | #IAPH Officer | #IHS #SocialScience #MedHum #Maternity #Research #HistMed #History #Cillíní #Folklore
@smawdsley.bsky.social
Historian of modern American medicine and disability Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/stephen-e-mawdsley
@michaelpierse.bsky.social
Academic at Queen's University Belfast. Irish Studies. Working-class writing. Left politics. Gaeilge. Tweets own opinions. RTs not endorsements.
@karenapsmith.bsky.social
Taught HE over 25 years, Dep Head Cass Art School. Film/Media scholar, programmer, writing on cinemas/cult/horror/music/neighbourhoods/audiences/gentrification/ScalaCinema UCL+KCL Lived opposite Grenfell Tower for over 20 years 💚 W10 to WKen London
@rankinmccabe.bsky.social
All Things Early Modern Literature • Fellow at University of Melbourne • PhD from Durham • Bodies human/non • Angels • Marlowe • Milton • EM Encounters with the Islamic world •
@colinturbett.bsky.social
Former UNISON TU activist. Writer on social history & social work matters. Website: colinturbett.co.uk . Strong supporter of Ukraine's resistance to Russian aggression 🏴🇺🇦🇵🇸
@gwshorter.bsky.social
Reader in Clinical Psychology Queen's University Belfast. Follow for alcohol & other drugs, #AddictionSci #BehSci #HarmReduction interventions, drug consumption rooms Loves dogs, dance, run, sea #BeMoreLyra views own (she/her) bi #AcademicSky
@stephenclarkehist.bsky.social
Wannabee Historian. Studying at University of Greenwich. Political Liberal and Eurofederalist. I always have time for people who are experts in their own field.
@katariinaparhi.bsky.social
Historian of science & nonfiction writer. Senior researcher at the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters in Helsinki. Also affiliated with Tampere University.
@stuartbro.bsky.social
PhD Researcher • QUB Belfast • Economic History • Banking History • Business History • Irish History • Irish in America • Scots-Irish in Baltimore • Alex Brown & Sons • Brown Brothers & Co 📍 Belfast / London
@dreeks.bsky.social
EPI/Scicomms by day; I host the Causes or Cures Podcast where I chat with experts on trending health topics; Known locally for my quirky workout routines. ;) causesorcures.com bloomingwellness.com
@dicopolhis.bsky.social
Dictionnaire Politique d’Histoire de la Santé - Political Dictionary of the History of Health Le Mans Université - Laboratoire TEMOS CNRS. 🔗 : https://dicopolhis.univ-lemans.fr/fr/index.html
@wokestudies.bsky.social
English Language & Literature. PhD: Monstrosity. Queer history. Gothic. Archaic English. NEW BOOK: Woke Shakespeare: Rethinking Shakespeare for a New Era. Prof. d'Emeritus. https://linktr.ee/drianmccormick
@nerysyoung.bsky.social
Lecturer in American History, Ulster University. Screen histories and politics. Likes Marmite and brownies but not at the same time. All views my own.
@maryburke.bsky.social
"Race Politics & Irish America" (Oxford UP bit.ly/3XKj0nn) Winner: 2025 Sharon Harris Book Award. Excerpt: bit.ly/3FuH1sa Podcast: bit.ly/3ZT7pnW Juanita Casey "Horse of Selene" Afterword: bit.ly/3QTOlSo Page: https://english.uconn.edu/person/mary-burk
@markxa.com
Learn, Do, Teach, Repeat | Belfast but with Manchester roots | Tech is how I live, art is why I live | Masked scoundrel | Evolving | Microsoft MVP alumnus | NIDC founder | Non-militant cyclist | He/him | markxa.com
@leannemccormick.bsky.social
Professor of Modern History, Ulster University. Co-chair Truth Recovery Independent Panel. Bad Bridget Project | Queer NI.
@michaelredacted.com
“𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚕𝚎𝚊𝚜𝚝 𝚑𝚒𝚖𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏 𝚠𝚑𝚎𝚗 𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚕𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚘𝚠𝚗 𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚘𝚗. 𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚑𝚒𝚖 𝚊 𝚖𝚊𝚜𝚔, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚑𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑.” 𝙶𝚒𝚟𝚎 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚘 𝚙𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛 𝙻𝚘𝚟𝚎 𝚒𝚗 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚢 𝚍𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚟𝚎 𝚕𝚒𝚔𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚝 ★ 𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚒-𝚁𝚊𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚝 ★ 𝙰𝚗𝚝𝚒-𝚒𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚝 ★ 𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚖𝚞𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝 https://linktr.ee/MichaelRedacted
@decolthediscipline.bsky.social
https://www.decolonisingthediscipline.org/ Sharing good practice & innovation in English Studies. A collaborative initiative by the English Association, the Institute of English Studies, UEA, the Postcolonial Studies Association, & University English.
@sslh.bsky.social
Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
@whaireland.bsky.social
The Women's History Association of Ireland (WHAI) has been promoting research into women's history in Ireland since 1989.
@grahamainsley.bsky.social
Social Worker (he/him) 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 Sharing newly published Open Access Social Work research: @openaccess-sw.bsky.social
@fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social
Nottingham's city centre independent and radical bookshop, est. 2013 Publishing as Five Leaves since 1995 www.fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk, www.fiveleaves.co.uk We organise about a hundred events a year. Fast ordering service. Four book clubs.
@housmansbookshop.bsky.social
Radical booksellers since 1945. Monday to Saturday 11am to 6.30pm. Sunday 12pm to 6pm. Order online at: http://housmans.com/shop
@freedompress.bsky.social
Britain's oldest anarchist publication and bookshop, founded in 1886. Occasionally disreputable. freedomnews.org.uk for news, freedompress.org.uk for books editor@ or shop@freedompress.org.uk to contact https://linktr.ee/f_p
@classworkproject.bsky.social
The CWP is a workers’ cooperative developing theory, analysis, and practice around issues relating to class, oppression, and stigma in Britain and beyond. Publishers of Lumpen: Journal of Poor and Working Class Writers https://linktr.ee/lumpen_journal
@socwkhistory.bsky.social
Social Work History Network was established in London in 2000. It is an informal network of social workers, academics, historians, archivists and others.
@wombatscholar.bsky.social
Critical histories of science and medicine, science studies, postcolonial endeavours. New book on modern excrementalities: Spectacles of Waste (Polity). Writing mostly on disease ecologies and planetary health now. Living on Wangal country.
@theoryculturesociety.org
theoryculturesociety.org Information on the academic, peer-reviewed journals 'Theory, Culture & Society' and 'Body & Society', as well as the TCS Book Series.
@archive.org
Internet Archive is a non-profit research library preserving web pages, books, movies & audio for public access. Explore web history via the Wayback Machine.
@ottomanhistory.bsky.social
➥ Old Photos, Pics, Paintings, Maps ➥ Docs from Ottoman Empire Archives ➥ Historical Letters, Writings, Poems, Memoirs, Books, Real Human Stories: / Blog: https://ottoman-history-page.blogspot.com
@brkeogh.bsky.social
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic. The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/ Brisbane, Australia | he/him
@maritahennessy.bsky.social
Researcher | PhD | Ireland #PregnancyLoss #ReproductiveHealth #ReproductiveJustice #WeightStigma #MensHealth #CDoH #COI #PublicHealth #SDoH #ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation #GraphicMedicine
@ruthdav.bsky.social
Historian of women, welfare and activism. Currently researching working class women’s welfare campaign’s in twentieth century Britain. IHR Fellow 2024/25
@sjzimmerman.bsky.social
Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking
@sarahcrook.bsky.social
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
@erikadyck.bsky.social
Historian of health & social justice. Mostly psychedelics, madness, eugenics and birth control; essentially I enjoy studying who gets to make the rules and why we let them.
@queerstorian.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Sexuality @ University of Edinburgh | book (soon): ‘Aversion Therapy: A Transnational History of Sex, Psychiatry & the Cold War’ | PhD @ UniMelb, MA @ FU-Berlin | antifascist, anti-colonial, pro- 🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🐾 | 🗣️🇩🇪🇦🇺 | member @ucu.org.uk
@hanblythe.bsky.social
Research Fellow at LSHTM, affiliated at Birkbeck. Health humanities and history of mental health, charity and the NHS. Former policy person. Trying to play squash.
@whitchurchhospital.bsky.social
Whitchurch Hospital is a closed Mental Health Hospital in Cardiff 🏴 1908-2016 Used as a military hospital during both World Wars. Originally known as the Cardiff City Mental Hospital. Account run by Whitchurch Hospital Historcial Society (Est. 2009)
@christina-c20.bsky.social
Dr Christina Malathouni @LivUniArch, writing Public Mental Health Facilities in Postwar England (Routledge). @BartlettUCL Alumna. Former @c20society.bsky.social caseworker. Also @Christina_C20.
@justrena.bsky.social
Archaeologist. Research Fellow. Iron Age and early medieval material culture .Horses and sharp pointy things, mostly. "Ain't nothin' like me - except me" (Raccoon, 2014). Usually optimistic even if cynical. She/her/thon wan. Personal views only
@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
@samuelguthrie.bsky.social
Public/oral historian, working with community & placemaking in Belfast. Former projects inc. British Red Cross, Ionad na Fuiseogie, St Matthew's 150th, & Mid Ulster Council. Currently researching & writing about postmemory & identity thru rugby league.
@lauramca.bsky.social
Irish Academic, archaeologist, heritage, memory, creative at UC Cork. Interest in post/conflict and post/colonial contexts inc fieldwork in Ireland and Caribbean.