Sam Wetherell
Historian of Britain and the World at the University of York. Interested in cities, art-making and the future. Liverpool and the Un-Making of Britain out now: https://www.waterstones.com/book/liverpool-and-the-unmaking-of-britain/sam-wetherell//9781801
@urbanhistorygroup.bsky.social
https://urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/ We organise biennial conferences and occasional talks to promote the study of Urban History in the UK. Established in 1966 and now working with the Pre-Modern Towns Group on our conference in September 2025
@tobiasbecker.bsky.social
historian & curator | Visiting Professor @ FU Berlin | author of “Yesterday: A New History of Nostalgia” | https://shorturl.at/anLSW
@sulinlewis.bsky.social
Professor of Global and Asian History at the University of Bristol. Previously: Cosmopolitan port-cities/ These days: Third World Solidarity and Socialist Internationalism She/her
@qmcbs.bsky.social
Queen Mary Centre for British Studies Website being developed at: https://projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/
@chrisknowles.bsky.social
@trillingual.bsky.social
Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
@sarahmmass.bsky.social
Cities, multiculturalism, economic life | Assistant Professor of History @ Tufts
@shirinhirsch.bsky.social
Anti racist historian at Manchester Met and People’s History Museum. Views my own
@shannanclark.bsky.social
Historian of labor, media, and cities. Teacher and trade unionist. Author of The Making of the American Creative Class: http://tinyurl.com/yc98a2xn. Vote in NY-10, heart in MO-1, paycheck in NJ-11. Also in https://scholarsforanewdealforhighered.org
@tomsugrue.bsky.social
Historian, urbanist, scholar of public policy, race, inequality. Silver Professor NYU. Dad, stepdad, dog dad. Native Detroiter, longtime Philadelphian, honorary Chicagoan, gringo Carioca, wannabe Parisian, and second-time New Yorker. Dual citizen: US/Éire.
@brentcebul.bsky.social
I teach history and write about US politics, cities, and inequality, most recently in ILLUSIONS OF PROGRESS: Business, Poverty, and Liberalism in the American Century (Penn Press, 2023).
@michaeldwyer.bsky.social
Publisher/editor with the great www.hurstpublishers.com team, biryani (mutton), Herzog and Madeira wine aficionado, gardener, Irish citizen, NUFC. History, politics, colonialism, war, intelligence/cyber, religions. @hurstpublishers.bsky.social
@kmilb.bsky.social
Co-director of Abundance. Author of Generation Left (2019) and Radical Abundance (forthcoming). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
@mayacaspari.bsky.social
Ideally writing or napping. Lecturer @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social, working on memory, touch & ethics of representation in contemporary writing, among other things. Sometimes poet. Based in London/York www.mayacaspari.com
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022) https://arch-history.exeter.ac.uk/history/profile/index.php?username=jamark
@aaronackerley.bsky.social
Modern British History. Press and Media. Empire. Economics. Knowledge and Power. Lecturer in British Studies, University of Oslo
@janeym.bsky.social
Historian | 20th C design & material culture | Researching textiles, climate & weathering; fashion & politics; also everyday militarisms, mostly uniforms | Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
@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.
@claireljones.bsky.social
Medical historian of modern Britain/curator (thinks/writes about: condoms, toothbrushes & lately, urine; secretary of Society for the Social History of Medicine @sshmedicine.bsky.social); music & horror film fan; singer; runner; mum; find me at the beach ⛱
@davidcvessey.bsky.social
Historian of modern Britain and the media. University of Sheffield. Probably won’t rant about Sheffield Wednesday on here (I’ll save that for the hellsite formerly known as Twitter).
@arjm5184.bsky.social
Historian, goalie, not a historian of goalies. Father of goalie. History at MSU Denver. Wartime Calcutta. Usually in the far corner of the rink.
@drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social
Associate Lecturer in History at Goldsmiths British, US, comparative, global politics and culture Dad; Londoner; Cypriot; Gooner 🔴⚪️ Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com Academic publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dion-Georgiou
@cathfeely.bsky.social
Cultural historian of modern Britain. Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby and Councillor of the Royal Historical Society. All views my own.
@hannahelias.bsky.social
Historian. Lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on histories of race, faith and culture in Modern Britain. IHR Fellow for 2024-5.
@tricksterprince.bsky.social
Cultural history, Britain, cities, sexuality & gender, 20s30s. Out Oct 2025 - Songs of Seven Dials: An intimate history of 1920s and 1930s London (MUP) Now - The Self-Improvers: The people who remade themselves and made the modern world
@lucydelap.bsky.social
Historian of feminisms, labour and disability at University of Cambridge. Fellow of Murray Edwards college. Lover of nyckelharpa and uilleann pipes. She/her
@historygriffin.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
@mbsbirmingham.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Birmingham. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/mbs
@evansmithhist.bsky.social
Academic/Writer - History/Politics/Criminology - British, Australian and southern African (plus transnational) history - he/him - top 2% researchers 2024 (Stanford/Elsevier rankings) - views own
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@profdavidturner.bsky.social
Disability historian, Director of the Research Institute in Culture and Communities, Swansea University. Vice Chair Disability Arts Cymru. Writing Disability: A History of Resistance for The Bodley Head / Vintage.
@zoethomas.bsky.social
Historian researching work, gender, & the arts in the Anglo-American world, c 19th & 20th centuries Deputy Editor @ WomensHistoryReview
@eriklinstrum.bsky.social
Historian of Britain, empire, and decolonization at the University of Virginia. Author of AGE OF EMERGENCY: LIVING WITH VIOLENCE AT THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Spending the 2024-25 year at The Huntington Library in California.
@alfiesteer.bsky.social
Historian of the Labour Left. Articles and book reviews in Tribune, Jacobin, Political Insight, Contemporary British History, English Historical Review, Modern British History. Organised 'Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On.'
@davidharvey.org
Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. Latest book: A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse. Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH
@profgillian.bsky.social
digital things, visual culture, cities, visual research methods. And sometimes academic life. Prof of Human Geography at the University of Oxford. I still blog, occasionally, here: https://visualmethodculture.wordpress.com/
@olimould.bsky.social
Academic at large, but lectures in human geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. linktr.ee/olimould Researches anti-capitalism & cities. Christianarchist. Toffeeman. Interested in scifi, films, architecture, music and t-shirts.
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, publishing (and funding, through the non-profit Antipode Foundation) the very best radical research
@stuartelden.bsky.social
Political theorist, political geographer, now mainly write on the history of ideas. Professor at University of Warwick, work on territory, Foucault, Lefebvre and new project on Indo-European thought in C20th France. https://progressivegeographies.com
@briallenhopper.bsky.social
Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
@theo-williams.bsky.social
Researching histories of anti-imperialism and Black radicalism. Author of: *Making the Revolution Global: Black Radicalism and the British Socialist Movement before Decolonisation*: https://www.versobooks.com/books/4073-making-the-revolution-global
@siobhanhearne.bsky.social
Historian of the Russian Empire & Soviet Union. Currently working on the history of the Soviet Red Cross, 1953-1991. Co-editor of @conteurohistory.bsky.social and @peripheralhist.bsky.social. Author of 'Policing Prostitution' (OUP, 2021).
@saffroneast.bsky.social
Historian of identities, education and social movements in modern Britain esp interested in antiracism and pedagogy. Trying to survive in the age of losers. Research Fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge.
@c20society.bsky.social
The national charity campaigning to protect Britain’s modern architectural and design heritage. Reuse Them or Lose Them! www.c20society.org.uk
@hydetimothy.bsky.social
Historian of architecture, urbanism, modernity / MIT / Author of Ugliness & Judgment / research: architecture & law, building sites, ugliness, Antarctica
@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
@davwright.bsky.social
Researching and teaching about creative industries and cultural policy at the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, SCAPVC, University of Warwick. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/scapvc/ccmps/staff/david/ If you want me, I'll be at the cricket.
@sexhistorian.bsky.social
Historian of health, welfare, childhood & sexuality. Expertise in public health education, HIV/AIDS, activism, gender, queer health, & emotions. Researching the health history of fuel poverty in North East England @ Northumbria University They/them
@drdaveobrien.bsky.social
Professor of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Manchester and host of New Books in Critical Theory. Currently on secondment to DCMS, also at Creative PEC and the Whats On Project too